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
Biography
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.
“The book sets out to learn some constructive lessons from the racial and ethnic strife of the 1960s and 1970s…. The book does provide some new conceptualizations, and it does extend its scope to include Afro -Americans, Native Americans, Chinese, Japanese, and Puerto Ricans in the United States. It briefly compares their experiences to those of racial and ethnic groups in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Zimbabwe, and a number of Latin American countries. The goal is to develop ‘a general model for the comparative analysis of race and ethnic relations in societies that were products of or influenced by the five centuries of white European expansion’ (p.xvi). To that end, the book is reasonably successful.”
--Marcus D. Pohlmann, Political Science Quarterly, Volume 105, Issue 1, Spring 1990,
