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Explaining Ethnic Relations
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Internet Exercises

Exercise 1

Go to the "Three Ideologies of Assimilation" Web page (http://www.unl.edu/LatAmHis/Assimilation.html). It offers an overview and critique of the different ideologies of assimilation. Compare and contrast the ideology of assimilation with the split-labor market theory presented in Soltero and White-Sotero's essay on "Immigration and U.S. English: The Backlash," which was published in Dialogo (http://condor.depaul.edu/~dialogo/back_issues/issue_2/anti_immigration.htm).

Exercise 2

Go to the Web site of the Research Institute of Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (http://ccsre.stanford.edu/RI_resInst.htm) and study the reports on the socioeconomic and educational status of ethnic minorities in California. Using the unified theory of ethnic relations presented in Chapter 2 of your text, analyze the findings of one of the CCSRE reports.

Exercise 3

Go to the "Three Ideologies of Assimilation" Web page (http://www.unl.edu/LatAmHis/Assimilation.html) and develop a critique of the theories of assimilation, drawing from internal colonization, split-class, and split-labor market theories presented in Chapter 2 of your text.