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“As Lani Guinier and Gerald Torres argue, one of the negative consequences of this colorblind ideology that it “inhibit[s] racialized minorities from struggling against their marginalized status. . . . It gives those who have enjoyed little power in our society no mechanisms for understanding and challenging the systemic nature of their oppression. . . . The way race has been used both to distribute resources and to camouflage the unfairness in that distribution remains invisible. . . . And the political space, where groups come together to give voice to their collective experience and mobilize to engage in fundamental social change, vanishes”
― Race and Ethnicity in America (Sociology in the Twenty-First Century Book 2)
― Race and Ethnicity in America (Sociology in the Twenty-First Century Book 2)
“For example, the experiences of the Japanese are quite different from those of the Hmong from southeast Asia, many who came as refugees in the wake of the Vietnam War. Likewise, the experiences of people of Mexican origin are quite different from those of immigrants coming from Cuba.”
― Race and Ethnicity in America (Sociology in the Twenty-First Century Book 2)
― Race and Ethnicity in America (Sociology in the Twenty-First Century Book 2)
“Descendants of European immigrants of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries have largely assimilated into U.S. society. Groups once viewed as outsiders now view themselves, and are viewed by others, as part of the American mainstream.”
― Race and Ethnicity in America (Sociology in the Twenty-First Century Book 2)
― Race and Ethnicity in America (Sociology in the Twenty-First Century Book 2)
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