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• @fmct:Contents @toc2:Prologue. A Personal Encounter with the Canon 1
• Part 1. The Origins and Ideological Underpinnings of the Race Relations Paradigm 000
• Part 2. Race: The Epistemology of Ignorance 000
• Part 3. Ethnicity: The Epistemology of Wishful Thinking
• 000 @toc4:Acknowledgments 000 Notes 000 Index 000.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

Stephen Steinberg offers a bold challenge to prevailing thought on race and ethnicity in American society. In a penetrating critique of the famed race relations paradigm, he asks why a paradigm invented four decades before the Civil Rights Revolution still dominates both academic and popular discourses four decades after that revolution.On race, Steinberg argues that even the language of "race relations" obscures the structural basis of racial hierarchy and inequality. Generations of sociologists have unwittingly practiced a "white sociology" that reflects white interests and viewpoints. What happens, he asks, when we foreground the interests and viewpoints of the victims, rather than the perpetrators, of racial oppression?On ethnicity, Steinberg turns the tables and shows that the early sociologists who predicted ultimate assimilation have been vindicated by history. The evidence is overwhelming that the new immigrants, including Asians and most Latinos, are following in the footsteps of past immigrants-footsteps leading into the melting pot. But even today, there is the black exception. The end result is a dual melting pot-one for peoples of African descent and the other for everybody else.Race Relations: A Critique cuts through layers of academic jargon to reveal unsettling truths that call into question the nature and future of American nationality.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)

• @fmct:Contents @toc2:Prologue. A Personal Encounter with the Canon 1
• Part 1. The Origins and Ideological Underpinnings of the Race Relations Paradigm 000
• Part 2. Race: The Epistemology of Ignorance 000
• Part 3. Ethnicity: The Epistemology of Wishful Thinking
• 000 @toc4:Acknowledgments 000 Notes 000 Index 000.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

Stephen Steinberg offers a bold challenge to prevailing thought on race and ethnicity in American society. In a penetrating critique of the famed race relations paradigm, he asks why a paradigm invented four decades before the Civil Rights Revolution still dominates both academic and popular discourses four decades after that revolution. On race, Steinberg argues that even the language of "race relations" obscures the structural basis of racial hierarchy and inequality. Generations of sociologists have unwittingly practiced a "white sociology" that reflects white interests and viewpoints. What happens, he asks, when we foreground the interests and view-points of the victims, rather than the perpetrators, of racial oppression? On ethnicity, Steinberg turns the tables and shows that the early sociologists who predicted ultimate assimilation have been vindicated by history. The evidence is overwhelming that the new immigrants, including Asians and most Latinos, are following in the footsteps of past immigrants - footsteps leading into the melting pot. But even today, there is the black exception. The end result is a dual melting pot - one for peoples of African descent and the other for everybody else. "Race Relations: A Critique" cuts through layers of academic jargon to reveal unsettling truths that call into question the nature and future of American nationality.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)

• I. GENERAL ISSUES AND THEORIES.
• 1. Major Issues.
• 2. Who Is an American? Goals of American Society.
• 3. Racial Stratification and Inequality.
• 4. Theoretical Perspectives.
• 5. Prejudice and Discrimination.
• 6. Minority Adaptations to Dominated Status.
• 7. Identity. II. GROUPS IN THE THIRD TIER OF THE STRATIFICATION SYSTEM.
• 8. African Americans.
• 9. Mexican Americans.
• 10. Puerto Ricans and Cubans.
• 11. Native Americans. III. GROUPS IN THE SECOND TIER OF THE STRATIFICATION SYSTEM.
• 12. Irish and Italians.
• 13. Chinese Americans.
• 14. Japanese Americans.
• 15. Koreans and Filipinos.
• 16. Southeast Asians and Pacific Islanders.
• 17. Overview. Index.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

Kitano uses his own experiences as a Japanese American--including growing up in a World War II concentration camp--as one motivation behind this book. He views race relations from an Asian-American perspective so that many of the models and explanations are drawn from his own experiences.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)

• The philosophy of race relations
• American Negro slavery
• The present status of the Negro and race relations.