First published in 1989, Race-Ethnicity and Society comes as a usable and comprehensive text on race and ethnicity in the United States. Ringer and Lawless set out to fill the gap in the literature by incorporating the positive lessons of the racially turbulent 1960's and 70s. Proposing a challenge to three conventional premises of many texts, they argue that the treatment of racial minorities in America was qualitatively different from that experienced by the white immigrants; that racism was not a mere aberration in American Society but was built into the very foundations of the society; and that America's experience with minorities was not unique but can instead be located within the mainstream of European expansion and conquest.
Race-Ethnicity and Society will be a standard source for students in the fields of sociology, history, and political science.
Introduction
1. The We-They Character of Race and Ethnicity
2. Race-
Ethnicity and Types of Dominance
3. Race- Ethnicity and Systems of
Stratification
4. Racial- Ethnic Dominance and the Nation- State
5. The White
European and Colonial Expansion and Settlement
6. Minority- Majority
Relations Over Time
7. The New Nation and the Black Encounter with Its
Duality
8. Duality and Other Racial Minorities
9. Blacks and the White
Immigrants References Index
Benjamin B. Ringer (at the time of the original publication of this book), Professor of Sociology at Hunter College and the Graduate School of the City University of New York.
Elinor R. Lawless (at the time of the original publication of this book), Psychiatric Social Worker in private practice.
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