Race, Ethnicity, and the American Urban Mainstream
Race, Ethnicity, and the American Urban Mainstream uses history, biography, and sociological analysis to examine the achievements and struggles of racial and ethnic groups in American cities. This text is organized around social systems (politics, housing, education, economics, and work) rather than groups or concepts such as prejudice and discrimination. A number of in-depth profiles of minority communities, in cities such as Oakland, Detroit, Los Angeles, and Chicago, help to illustrate...
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Race and Ethnicity in the American Nation Mainstream uses history, biography, and sociological analysis to examine the achievements and struggles of racial and ethnic groups in American cities. Doob focuses on race and ethnicity in U.S. cities, where most immigrant groups have historically settled, and where most inter-group relations have taken place. The book is organized around social systems (politics, housing, economics and work, education) rather than groups or concepts such as prejudice and discrimination.
1Introduction : the study of American race and ethnicity12Systemic equality? : divergent sociological thought in analyzing urban racial and ethnic groups153An ambivalent balance : welcomed workers versus stigmatized settlers414Starting from home : residential location695Employment legacies : the urban job world1046Exclusion of inclusion? : access to the halls of urban power1357Smorgasbord I : race, ethnicity, and socialization to community life1588Smorgasbord II : race, ethnicity, and socialization to American urban families and ecucation1799The Canadian multicultural mosaic : how different from the United States?21210Urban racial and ethnic relations : the road ahead?232
