Chapter 1

race, ethnicity

multi-racial category

Hansen: three generation theory

minority group

ascribed vs achieved status

factors affecting inclusion to the American society

voluntary vs involuntary entrance

the size of the minority

the modernity theory

Chapter 2

Park: race relations cycle

Gordon: sub-processes of assimilation

Internal colonialism

Anglo conformity

Melting pot

Cultural pluralism

Internal colonialism theory

Anti-assimilation theories: separatism, secessionism

Ideal type

Chapter 3

American Indian tribes: society and culture (diversity, some highly organized)

Indian-English contact

Jamestown—tobacco production

Colonial Irish immigrants—Northern Ireland, Presbyterian, degree of assimilation

Colonial German—assimilation

American Revolution: Anglo power

Africans: indentured servant

slavery system, slave resistance

Ethnocentrism

Chapter 4

The first, second, third immigrant streams

when, from where

push and pull factors, where settled, stereotypes, Anglo reaction

socioeconomic background

Differences between Irish and Germans (speed of assimilation)

Forty-eighters

Regional vs national loyalty of Italians

Russian vs German Jews: degree of assimilation

Immigration policies: 1924, 1965, 1990

Sojourners

Ethnogenesis

Chapter 6

prejudice vs discrimination

social distance

cultural transmission theory of prejudice

personality theory

authoritarian personality

frustration-agreesion theory

group identification theory of prejudice

Theories of discrimination

Situational--creed-deed discrepancy

group gains

split labor market theory (Bonacich)

institutional

Clark and Clark’s dolls test

LaPier’s study