Race and Ethnic Conflict: Contending Views on Prejudice, Discrimination, and Ethnoviolence

481 Pages·1998·18.479 MB·English

by  Fred L Pincus, Howard J Ehrlich

Race and Ethnic Conflict

SECOND EDITION
Race and Ethnic Conflict
Contending Views on Prejudice,
Discrimination, and Ethnoviolence
edited by
Fred L. Pincus
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Howard]. Ehrlich
The Prejudice Institute
New York London
First published 1999 by Westview Press
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Race and ethnic conflict: contending views on prejudice,
discrimination, and ethnoviolence f edited by Fred L Pincus, Howard
J, Ehrlich, - 2nd ed,
p, cm,
Includes bibliographical references,
ISBN 0-8133-3498-5 (pbk.)
1, United States-Race relations, 2, United States-Ethnic
relations, 3, Prejudices-United States, 4, Discrimination-United
States, 5, Violence-United States, I. Pincus, Fred L
II. Ehrlich, Howard J,
E184,AIR231999
305,8'00973-dc21 98-28116
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ISBN 13: 978-0-8133-3498-1 (pbk)
To our sons,
Josh Pincus-Sokoloff
and Andrew Webbink

Contents
Credits Xl
Introduction 1
PART 1
PERSPECTIVES IN RACE AND ETHNIC RELATIONS
1 The Study of Race and Ethnic Relations, Fred L. Pincus and
Howard J. Ehrlich 11
2 Classifying People by Race, Joan Ferrante and Prince Brown, Jr. 14
3 White Racial Formation: Into the Twenty-first Century,
Charles A. Gallagher 24
4 Talking Past Each Other: Black and White Languages of Race,
Bob Blauner 30
5 Theoretical Perspectives in Race and Ethnic Relations,
Joe R. Feagin and Clairece Booher Feagin 41
PART 2
PREJUDICE 61
6 The Changing Nature of Prejudice, James M. Jones 65
7 Racism and Traditional American Values, Byron M. Roth 77
PART 3
DISCRIMINATION, ECONOMIC RESTRUCTURING,
AND UNDERCLASS CULTURE 89
8 How Cultural Values Shape Economic Success, Lawrence E. Harrison 97
9 Societal Changes and Vulnerable Neighborhoods,
William Julius Wilson 110
10 From Individual to Structural Discrimination, Fred L. Pincus 120
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11 America's Apartheid and the Urban Underclass, Douglas S. Massey 125
12 Measuring Employment Discrimination Through Controlled
Experiments, Marc Bendick, Jr., Charles W. Jackson, and
Victor A. Reinoso 140
13 "We'd Love to Hire Them, But ..." : The Meaning of Race for
Employers, Joleen Kirschenman and Kathryn M. Neckerman 152
14 Hiring Immigrant Women: Silicon Valley's "Simple Formula,"
Karen]. Hossfeld 162
15 Latinos and Discrimination, Joan Moore and Raquel Pinderhughes 180
16 Major Issues Relating to Asian American Experiences,
Pyong Gap Min 195
17 The Case for Affirmative Action, Fred L. Pincus 205
PART 4
IMMIGRATION 223
18 America's Immigration "Problem;' Saskia Sassen 229
19 Models of Pluralism: The New American Dilemma,
Milton M. Gordon 239
20 Alien Nation, Peter Brimelow 247
21 Five Myths About Immigration, David Cole 257
22 Lingo Jingo: English-Only and the New Nativism,
Geoffrey Nunberg 260
PART 5
EDUCATION 271
23 Campus Ethnoviolence, Howard J. Ehrlich 277
24 "New Racism" and Old Dogmatism, Thomas Sowell 291
25 Multiculturalism: Battleground or Meeting Ground?
Ronald Takaki 305
PART 6
SELECTED TOPICS 317
26 Reporting Ethnoviolence: Newspaper Treatment of Race and
Ethnic Conflict, Howard J. Ehrlich 319
27 Ebonies, Language, and Power, Mike Long 331
28 The White Supremacist Movement in the United States Today,
Abby L. Ferber 346
CONTENTS IX
PART 7
ELECTORAL POLITICS OR DIRECT ACTION? 355
29 Politics, Stephen Thernstrom and Abigail Thernstrom 359
30 Representative Government: The Black Experience, Howard Zinn 376
31 Black Conservatives, Deborah Toler 391
32 Power Concedes Nothing Without a Demand: Building Multiracial
Organizations with Direct Action, Mark Toney 401
33 Privileged Polemics: White Antiracist Activists, Eileen O'Brien 411
PARTS
TOWARD CHANGE 427
34 Rethinking Racism, Dinesh D'Souza 429
35 It Was All of Us Working Together: Resolving Racial and Ethnic
Tension on College Campuses, Arthur Salz and Julius Trubowitz 436
36 Changing the Whole System, Charles Jaret 446
Statistical Appendix 461
About the Editors and Contributors 465