Taking sides : clashing views on controversial issues in race and ethnicity / selected, edited, and with introductions by Raymond D'Angelo and Herbert Douglas

CONTENTS

PART 1: CLASSICAL ISSUES IN RACE, ETHNICITY, AND IMMIGRATION
Issue 1: Do Americans need a common identity?
Issue 2. Does immigration contribute to a better America?
Issue 3. Race relations in the 19th century: will accommodation insure progress
Issue 4. Do recent immigration trends challenge existing ideas of America's white identity?
Issue 5: Is race prejudice a product of group position?

PART 2: RACE STILL MATTERS: PREJUDICE, DISCRIMINATION, AND RACIAL MINORITIES
Issue 6. Do minorities and whites engage in self segregation?
Issue 7. Are Asian Americans a model Minority?
Issue 8. Did hurricane Ktrina expose racism in new Orleans?
Issue 9. Is the emphasis on a colour-blind society an answer

PART 3: SOCIAL AND POLITICAL ISSUES OF EDUCTAION AND MULTICULTURALISM
Issue 10. Are America's schools and neighbourhoods desegregating?
Issue 11. Should race be included among the many factors considered for admission to selective colleges
Issue 12. Is affirmative action necessary to achieve racial equality in the united state today
Issue 13. Is multiculturalism compatible with democratic values

PART 4: ISSUES FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
Issue 14: Is today's immigration debate anti-latino
Issue 15: Does white skin privilege still exist in American society?
Issue 16: Is racism a permanent feature of American society?
Issue 17: Is now the time for reparations for African Americans?
Issue 18: Is racial profiling defensible public policy?

Includes index