Offers racist quotes about Blacks, Jews, Hispanics, Asians, Italians, Poles, and others, from famous persons such as John Wayne, Woodrow Wilson, William F. Buckley, Richard Wagner, Jesse Helms, Sam Rayburn, Walter Lippman, Jack London, Paul Lynde, Theodore Roosevelt, Frank Sinatra, Errol Flynn, Ezra Pound, Richard M. Nixon, and Ronald Reagan. (BJV)

Employs a Marxian dialectical methodology regarding the historical role of ethnicity within the context of a capitalist political economy. Provides an example of this perspective by presenting the unity of the subjective and objective elements of what is involved in the decision to be or not to be a Santee. (Author/GC)

Compares contemporary racial attitudes in two Southern Plains communities with pertinent studies of the peoples and regions adjacent to them. The evidence presented by Indian and white informants indicates distinct and definable racial prejudice. (Author/AM)

Social science literature dealing with Chicanos has long pointed to the importance of the family. Unfortunately, many of the generalizations that have been accepted rest on unproved assumptions and rely on negative and stereotyped descriptions. Future research must examine the impact of external social forces on internal family interaction. (RLV)

Explores the relationship among the self-image of third-generation Japanese-American males, sexual dynamics within corporations, and their managerial behavior. Argues that ethnic and sexual stereotypes influence Japanese-American participation in the management of U.S. corporations, and that membership in "corporate communities" has…

Folk tales, jokes, and other forms of folk culture are used to explore the love-hate relationship between Blacks and Jews and to trace the changes in this relationship. (RLV)

Criticizes sociological research and writing on the American Indian family for not acknowledging variety in family characteristics among different nations. Discusses the negative effects of racism on Indian family structure. (GC)

Examines the source of the current use of the label "Hispanic"; summarizes the historical diversity of the groups collected under this label; analyses the race, class, and ethnic components of Hispanic identity; and discusses the conscious use of a pan-ethnic identity for economic and political ends. (BJV)

Within the context of the social history of the Chinese American elderly in the United States, the author analyzes the psychological and cultural patterns of learned helplessness among this minority group. (EF)

Describes the ways and means of adaptation and interaction used by a purportedly invisible ethnic minority, the Samoan population of Seattle, Washington, and discusses both how these ways and means of adaptation and interaction relate to each other and how they are facilitated or blocked by the relative invisibility of the group. (Author/JM)

Challenges the view of Chinese and Japanese Americans as middlemen with its assumptions that Asian Americans are sojourners and unassimilable. Questions the equation of a middle class minority with a middleman minority, examining the roots of this myth in the relationship of Asian Americans to the White-Black racial dyad. (RDN)

Evaluates competing theories about strained Black-Jewish relations. Discusses Edna Bonacich's (1973) explanation for Jewish attainment of middleman positions and indicates why this generates anti-Jewish sentiment. Demonstrates that Bonacich's sojourner theory cannot provide a foundation for the analysis of the behavior of Jewish immigrants to the…

Discusses the group dynamics of ethnic parades with respect to participants, outsiders, and recent immigrants. Covers the following topics: (1) context of parades; (2) community development within historical and social environment; (3) American and ethnic aspects; (4) presentation of immigrants in parades; (5) relationships with homeland; and (6)…

Discusses the historical plight of African Americans, Native Americans, and those of mixed ancestry in their fight against stereotyping, racism, and prejudice, and their fight for the right to self-identification and self-definition in the United States. Considers the various classifications of different races and the reasons for these…