Exercise 1

Go to the "Together or Apart" Web page (http://www.soci.txstate.edu/3327/chap2.html). It offers a summary of the main points concerning the three 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 "Together or Apart" Web page (http://www.soci.txstate.edu/3327/chap2.html) and review the main points regarding the three ideologies of assimilation. 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.