Minority relations : Intergroup Conflict and Cooperation / edited by Greg Robinson and Robert S. Chang.

9781496810458 (hardcover)
1496810457 (hardcover)
9781496810472 (electronic book)
9781496810496 (electronic book)

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2017]

English

xviii, 284 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

E184.A1 M5448 2017

305.800973

The question of how relations between marginalized groups are impacted by their common and sometimes competing search for equal rights has become acutely important. Demographic projections make it easy now to imagine a future majority population of color in the United States. Minority Relations sets forth some of the issues involved in the interplay among members of various racial, ethnic, and sexual minorities. Robert S. Chang initiated the Intergroup Conflict and Cooperation Project and invited historian Greg Robinson to collaborate. The two brought together scholars from different backgrounds and disciplines to engage a set of interrelated questions confronting groups generally considered minorities. This collection strives to stimulate further thinking and writing by social scientists, legal scholars, and policymakers on interminority connections. Particularly, scholars test the limits of intergroup cooperation and coalition building. For marginalized groups, coalition building seems to offer a pathway to addressing economic discrimination and reaching some measure of justice with regard to opportunities. The need for coalitions also acknowledges a democratic process in which racialized groups face significant difficulty gaining real political power, despite such legislation as the Voting Rights Act--from publisher's website.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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