The Politics of Ethnic and Racial Inequality: A Systematic Comparative Macro-Analysis From the Colonial Period to the Present
Edition: 3
Copyright: 2004
Pages: 448
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The Politics of Ethnic and Racial Inequality: A Systematic Comparative Macro-Analysis from the Colonial Period to the Present, Third Edition, by J. Owens Smith, covers the immigration/migration of racial groups in America from the Colonial Period to the present. Its overall thrust is to offer a conceptual framework by which group mobility and inequality can be interpreted on a systematic basis. This conceptual framework offers an explanation of group inequality among all groups. Particularly, it explains the cause(s) of inequality among racial minority groups such as African Americans, British West Indians, and Asian groups. It goes beyond the traditional racist and self-victimization arguments and focuses on identifying those independent variables that constrain and promote groups' growth and development.
This third edition is an essential reference book for professionals and students of race relations, ethnicity, Black studies, Hispanic studies, economic inequality, sociology, and anthology.
Features & Benefits
- over 1,000 references to scholarly literature
- complete names and subject indexes
- 41 tables and figures
Preface to the Third Edition
Preface to the Second Edition
Preface to the First Edition
Introduction
1. A Framework for Studying Upward Mobility and Inequality
2. The Colonial Immigrants, 1600-1776: Anglo-Saxon,
Dutch, French, and Scots-Irish
3. The Second Wave of Immigrants, 1830-1870: Irish,
Germans, and Scandinavians
4. Italian and Jewish Immigrants, 1880-1910
5. Immigration of Racial Ethnic Groups Prior to the 1964
Civil Rights Act: Japanese, West Indians, and Puerto Ricans
6. The Chief Causes of Economic Inequality Among African Americans
7. Assessment of Groups' Economic Linkages and Income Inequality
8. Gaining an Economic Foothold in the American Economy:
The Late Nineteenth Century Immigrants Groups
9. How the Late Nineteenth Century European Immigrants
Escaped the Slums
10. The Politics of Poverty and the Self-Victimization Argument
11. Model Minorities: The Politics of Their Success
12. The Methodological Problems in Lumping All Hispanic
and Latino Populations Together
13. Hispanics and Colonial Mexico
14. Mexican Americans and the Mexican Immigration from the
1920s to the Present
Summary and Conclusions
Appendix
Selected Bibliography
Index