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 inter-minority 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.
How minority groups negotiate thorny but critical public policy issues in America
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Chapter 1 An Analytic Model of Conflict and Cooperation on the Terrain of Race |
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Chapter 2 The Power Dynamics of Color on Color Grappling with Grievances to Forge Alliances |
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Chapter 3 Civil Rights, Free Speech, and Group Libel |
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Chapter 4 Race, Place, and Historic Moment Black and Japanese American World War II Veterans: The GI Bill of Rights and the Model Minority Myth |
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Chapter 5 Re-reading Vincent Chin Asian Americans and Multiracial Political Analysis |
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Chapter 6 The Paradox of Reparations Japanese Americans and African Americans at the Crossroads of Alliance and Conflict |
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Chapter 7 The Birth and Death of Affirmative Action Is Resurrection Possible? |
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Chapter 8 Segregated Together Latino-Black Interethnic Conflict |
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Chapter 9 A Modest Proposal Rethinking Black History, 1865--1965 |
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Chapter 10 Gay Is the New White (Gay Is the New Straight) |
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| About the Contributors |
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Greg Robinson, Montreal, Canada, a native of New York City, is professor of history at the Université du Québec á Montréal. His books include the award-winning After Camp, A Tragedy of Democracy, and By Order of the President.
Robert S. Chang, Mercer Island, Washington, USA is professor of law and executive director of the Fred T. Korematsu Center for Law and Equality at Seattle University School of Law. He is the author of Disoriented: Asian Americans, Law, and the Nation-State and coeditor of Asian Americans, Pacific Islanders and the Law.
