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  1. Domination and Subordination among Ethnic Groups
    1. An almost universal condition
    2. The importance of culture and institutional systems in patterns of domination

  2. Early Colonization in America
    1. The Anglo-Saxons
      1. The numerical preponderance of British Isle ethnics
    2. The Early Colonists
      1. The northern European composition of early colonists
      2. The Anglo-Saxon core

  3. The Cultural and Institutional Legacy of Early Colonization
    1. The Core Culture
      1. English as the dominant language
      2. Protestant-inspired core values
        1. Ascetic Protestantism
        2. Weber's portrayal
          1. discipline
          2. hard work
          3. efficient use of time
          4. rationality
          5. accumulation and profit
          6. avoidance of temptation
      3. English legal tenets
        1. English domination of substantive law
        2. French influence on broad constitutional principles
        3. Core culture as defining how other ethnics must think and act
    2. The Core Institutional Structures
      1. Economic institutions
        1. Dominated by concerns over commerce
        2. Capitalism that relied upon cheap ethnic labor
      2. Political institutions
        1. Blending of British political traditions with eighteenth-century French social philosophy
          1. decentralized power
          2. representative government
          3. rule of law
          4. checks and balances
          5. principles of equality, justice, and freedom
        2. Disjuncture between broad principles and actual practices, and laws at state and community levels
        3. Broad constitutional principles as an effective weapon in overcoming discrimination, leading to more correspondence among (i) through (v) under 2-A above
      3. Educational institutions
        1. Early private schools, dominated by Protestant culture
        2. Public schools modeled after early private schools
        3. Even non-Protestant private schools influenced by the early Protestant model
      4. Religious institutions
        1. Protestantism as the dominant religion at colonization
        2. Non-Protestant religions viewed suspiciously by Protestants and used as a basis for discrimination

  4. Anglo-Saxon Hegemony and the Dynamics of Ethnicity
    1. The Domination of the Anglo-Saxon Core
      1. Anglo-Saxon culture and institutions determined how the competition among ethnic groups was to be played out
      2. Carriers of core have done better than those who remain outside the core
    2. The Anglo-Saxon Core and the Dynamics of Discrimination
      1. The core defines who is deviant and hence identifiable and, as a consequence, which ethnic subpopulations will continue to be victims of discrimination
  5. Summary


  6. Points of Debate





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