After reading Chapter 4, students should be able to:
apply the theoretical model developed in Chapter 2 to analyze the dynamics of discrimination against white ethnic Americans.
examine the differences between the Irish, Italian, and Jewish immigrants in terms of the theoretically generated categories described in Chapter 2: resource shares; identifiability; negative beliefs and stereotypes; and patterns of economic, political, educational, and housing discrimination.
describe the stereotypes associated with the Irish, Italian, and Jewish immigrants.
discuss the various institutions that the different white ethnic groups used to overcome discrimination and achieve some degree of social mobility (e.g., Irish use of big city political machines, the Catholic Church, and labor unions).
explain why each successive wave of white immigrants discriminated against the next wave of immigrants.
explain how "whiteness" enabled these immigrants to adjust and adapt to the Anglo-Saxon core.
theorize about the possible experiences that white ethnics from the former Soviet bloc and Eastern Europe will face in the United States.
