Race-Ethnicity and Society

Benjamin B Ringer, Elinor R. Lawless

• Publisher: Taylor & Francis
• Year: 2025
• eBook ISBN: 9781040386798
• Edition: 0
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Discrimination & Race Relations
• Index: Social Sciences

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Original Title Page
• Original Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• 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