Learning Objectives

14.1 Explain how the people profiled at the beginning of Chapter 1 exemplify the book’s central themes and concepts.
14.2 Explain the relevance of our central concepts—especially subsistence technology, the contact situation, competition and power, and intersectionality—for dominant–minority relations in the United States.
14.3 Summarize the situation of each of the groups we’ve considered in terms of acculturation and integration.
14.4 Explain the importance of a sociological perspective for understanding dominant–minority relations in the United States.