American Ethnicity, 5/e

African Americans

Chapter Outline

Resource Shares of African Americans
1. The impoverishment of African Americans
2. The income of African Americans
3. The occupational distribution of African Americans
4. Educational attainment of African Americans
5. Housing of African Americans
6. Life span of African Americans
The Dynamics of Discrimination Against African Americans
1. Identifiability of African Americans
2. Negative beliefs about African Americans
3. Institutionalized discrimination against African Americans
  1. Legal discrimination
    1. legal discrimination under slavery and in slavery's aftermath
    2. legal discrimination in the twentieth century
  2. Economic discrimination
    1. slavery and its aftermath
  3. Patterns of present-day discrimination
4. Political discrimination
5. Educational discrimination
  1. Educational discrimination before and immediately after the Civil War
  2. Educational discrimination in the twentieth century
6. Housing discrimination
Stratification of African Americans
1. Affluent and poor African Americans: The widening gap
2. The African American underclass: Myth or reality?
3. Threat and hostility toward African Americans
Responding to Discrimination
1. Protest during slavery
2. Protest after slavery
3. The last 50 years
Summary

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