Minority relations : Intergroup Conflict and Cooperation / edited by Greg Robinson and Robert S. Chang.

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Book
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English
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Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2017]
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xviii, 284 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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    The question of how relations between marginalized groups are impacted by their common and sometimes competing search for equal rights has become acutely important. Demographic projections make it easy now to imagine a future majority population of color in the United States. Minority Relations sets forth some of the issues involved in the interplay among members of various racial, ethnic, and sexual minorities. Robert S. Chang initiated the Intergroup Conflict and Cooperation Project and invited historian Greg Robinson to collaborate. The two brought together scholars from different backgrounds and disciplines to engage a set of interrelated questions confronting groups generally considered minorities. This collection strives to stimulate further thinking and writing by social scientists, legal scholars, and policymakers on interminority connections. Particularly, scholars test the limits of intergroup cooperation and coalition building. For marginalized groups, coalition building seems to offer a pathway to addressing economic discrimination and reaching some measure of justice with regard to opportunities. The need for coalitions also acknowledges a democratic process in which racialized groups face significant difficulty gaining real political power, despite such legislation as the Voting Rights Act--from publisher's website.
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    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • Editors' introduction: "can we all get along?"
    • Part I. Theoretical terrain
    • An analytic model of conflict and cooperation on the terrain of race / Robert S. Chang
    • The power dynamics of color on color: grappling with grievances to forge alliances / Eric K. Yamamoto and Amanda O. Jenssen
    • Part II. Episodes
    • Civil rights, free speech, and group libel / Cheryl Greenberg
    • Race, place, and historic moment: Black and Japanese American World War II veterans: the GI Bill of Rights and the model minority myth / Taunya Lovell Banks
    • Re-reading Vincent Chin: Asian Americans and multiracial political analysis / Scott Kurashige
    • The paradox of reparations: Japanese Americans and African Americans at the crossroads of alliance and conflict / Greg Robinson
    • Part III. Challenges
    • The birth and death of affirmative action: is resurrection possible? / Stephen Steinberg
    • Segregated together: Latino-Black interethnic conflict / Tanya Katerí Hernández
    • A modest proposal: rethinking Black history, 1865-1965 / Clarence Walker
    • Gay is the new white (gay is the new straight) / Devon W. Carbado.
    ISBN
    • 9781496810458 ((hardcover ; : alk. paper))
    • 1496810457 ((hardcover ; : alk. paper))
    LCCN
    2016029292
    OCLC
    959200465
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