AFAM 2000H Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Social Forces, Ethnogenesis
23 May 2016
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Four step process (p. 21-22: contact, competition, over valued resources (rights, jobs, wealth, education, accommodation, how the immigrant subpopulation settles or are stratified based on competition recourses, assimilation, adapting to the dominant population. Assimilations is not an all or nothing deal. Values, beliefs, dogmas, ideologies, language, and other symbols of the dominant culture. How many migrates marry with the dominant pop. Provide us with measures to assess migrant ethnic subpopulations" adaptation to dominant culture. Although they reveal the consequences of discrimination, they don"t explain how discriminatory forces operate. With the continued rise of immigration we ask: Equal access to resources as native-born citizen. Forming together to form this unique identity. Although some assimilation occurs, ethnicity always remains a powerful force even for those considered assimilated . Even white ethnic groups that migrate continue to reveal residential, behavioral, organizational, and cultural patterns that separate them from the middle-class, anglo.
