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-Inequality is expected to decline as minority/immigrant groups gain access to and become incorporated into mainstream institutions

Evidence DOES NOT support

assimilation theory

-Minorities who deliberately maintain a distinct and separate identity from majority culture such as small business owners or merchants

-Chinese/Koreans

-They support each other in tight-knit groups based on family ties, mutual aid, and pooled resources

-This reinforces their separation from host society i.e. the SALAD BOWL

-this DOES NOT guarantee the abolition of poverty

middleman minority

-Prolonged economic deprivation fosters adaptive but durable patterns of values, expectations, behaviors and social relationships that may help poverty persist across generations

-i.e.: Distrust of institutions, focus on immediate survival

culture of poverty

perspective may wrongly blame poor people for structural conditions and understate the roles of unequal schools, labor, markets, housing, discrimination etc

culture of poverty shortcomings

-Poverty and marginalization persist because dominant groups and institutions maintain unequal control over land, labor, resources, and political power

-It emphasizes historically produced relations of political control, economic extraction, cultural subordination and restricted self determination

internal colonialism

sernau

main internal colonialism thinker

control over governance

restriction of free movement

colonial-style labor exploitation

belief in a groups inferiority

Sernaus main ideas of internal colonialism

control over a groups governance

-Group is allowed neither full autonomy or full participation

restriction of free movement

the group is not willing immigrants, they were incorporated involuntarily. ability to choose where to live/work is restricted

colonial-style labor exploitation

-Group members are assigned to the most menial and dangerous jobs: there is low pay

belief in a groups inferiority

ideology asserts the groups inferiority to justify their exploitation

dependency

these communities are integrated into the natl economy but on unequal terms with limited ownership, wealth, accumulation, control and occupational mobility

marginalized communities

used as sources of cheap labor, raw materials, land, goods and services controlled by outside/dominant interests

Outward flow

economic gains from colonized territoty/population sent to firms, elites, institutions etc rather than accumulating wealth in subordinated community

exclusion from political power, discriminatory rep, administrative control, incarceration restriction on collective organization

subordinate cgroups are goverend by

cultural domination

-Dominant group portrays its language, history, culture etc as superior

-Schools, media, law, other insittutions reinforce this notion

-Inequality organized through reservations, segregated neighborhoods, former colonies or resource-rich regions controlled from distant urban/political centers

spacial inequality

race is not rooted in biology but is constructed through social interaction

sociologist view of race

is biological and determined at birth, viewed as the umbrella over which many ethnicities gather

american view of race

-More about culture, tied to where ancestors are originally from

-Language, religion, country of origin etc

american view of ethnicity

-Identity w/ political connections, referes to the group of people represented by a state

american view of nationality