Racial and Ethnic Group Inequality & Conflict



Lecture Outline: Background Concepts & Theories

US Population Racial and Ethnic group %’s (Census data)

Race vs. Ethnicity (what’s the difference, & examples of each)

Historical origins of racial categories -- – ties to colonization (Omi & Winant, rdg. #3 in Gallgher)

Problems with racial classifications – Vary over time and place in US history, compare to other places in Latin America (Schaefer ch. 16, Omi & Winant Rdg. Gallagher #3),

Racial Formation (Omi & Winant rdg.#3 in Gallagher)

Minority group / subordinate group (Schaefer, Ch 1)

Majority group / dominant group (Schaefer, Ch. 1)

Prejudice

Discrimination

-- Individual Discrimination

-- Institutional Discrimination

Creation of subordinate groups (3 ways) (Schaefer)

How is white skin healthy? How is black skin healthy? (Harris, rdg. # in Gallagher)

Consequences of Subordinate Group Status / Patterns of Inter-Group Relations (Drawing on Schaefer Ch. 1, but with some modifications)

Genocide

Expulsion

& Succession /Partitioning

Segregation

Continued Subjugation

Assimilation

Amalgamation/ Fusion / Melting Pot

Pluralism / Multi-Culturalism

Race and Ethnicity in other countries (comparative perspective)

Cases: Mexico, Brazil, Canada, South Africa, Israel (Schaefer ch. 16). Know some of main groups and relations between them in each country.

Also, in these cases there are many examples of concepts covered previously – e.g., race vs. ethnicity, racial formation and racial categories / classification systems (variation in how race defined), prejudice and discrimination, ominority groups and majority groups…

Theories of Racial and Ethnic Relations (Feagins, rdg.#4 in Gallagher, and a little from Schaefer Ch. 1)

Assimilation ala Park –Cycle of Race Relations (4 phases)

Assimilation ala Gordon – 7 Stages of Assimilation

(Problems with this, esp. Missing Secondary Group Assimilation)

Ethno-genesis

Power-Conflict theories

Internal Colonialism

& Oppositional Culture (very brief on this part)

Split Labor Market ( & in this I added Primary and Secondary labor markets, not in text)

Middleman minorities

Enclave Theory

Functionalism --& problems with this theory (Schaefer ch. 1)

A bit of Socio-Economic Status (SES) data on US racial and ethnic groups. (statistics on poverty, income and health insurance coverage) – know comparison general pattern; you do not have to know the exact statistics, just the overall pattern…

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