Learning Objectives

  • Explain the corollary to the main themes of Chapter 4: specifically, that dominant–minority group relations change as the subsistence technology of the society changes.
  • Understand the complexity of Jim Crow segregation in the South, why it was created, and its effects.
  • Explain the significance of the Great Migration and the origins of black protest.
  • Apply the concepts of acculturation, integration, and intersectionality to the time frame covered in this chapter.
  • Explain the important trends created by the shifts to industrial and postindustrial subsistence technology, and describe how these trends affected dominant–minority relations.
  • Explain what is meant by the shift from paternalistic to rigid to fluid competitive group relations.
  • Apply the concept of modern institutional discrimination to contemporary black–white relations, and understand why affirmative action policies were created to combat it.