Majority-Minority Relations

This book is designed to develop students' understanding of the principles and processes that shape the patterns of relations between racial, ethnic, and other groups in society. A wide variety of information is provided about a number of such groups with an emphasis on the relationships between dominant (majority) and subordinate (minority) racial and ethnic groups in the United States and abroad. Organized in a topic by topic approach, this book provides a more integrated sociological look at Majority-Minority relations. Affirmative action; welfare reform; whiteness as a racial identity; African-American perspectives; race/ethnicity in our schools; wage and labor laws; the war on drugs; institutional discrimination; race/ethnicity vs. language debate; as well as September 11 impact on intergroup relations. For professionals working in a racially mixed environment.