Learning Objectives
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Explain the corollary to the two themes stated at the beginning of the chapter.
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Describe the nature of Jim Crow segregation in the South and why this system was created.
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Explain the significance of the Great Migration and the origins of black protest.
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Apply the concepts of acculturation, integration, and gender to the time frame covered in this chapter.
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List and explain the important trends created by the shifts to industrial and postindustrial subsistence technology, and describe how these trends affected dominant–minority relations.
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Explain what is meant by the shift from paternalistic to rigid to fluid competitive group relations.
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Explain and apply the concept of modern institutional discrimination to contemporary black–white relations and the issue of affirmative action.