1. Critically evaluate Dr. Bonacich’s “split labor market” and “middleman minority” theories; Dr. Gordon’s “assimilation” theory; the “pluralist” theory; the “push – pull” , “human capital” , and “world system” theories.
2. Central arguments of the book chapters and how did the authors support their concepts through using data and charts?
3. Conclusions of the authors
4. Marxist Conflict theory: major arguments and weaknesses
5. Davis and Moore’s Functionalist theory: major arguments and weakness
6. Wilson’s declining significance of race vs. Duncan and Blau’s empirical comparisons of Black and White occupational mobility, variables used.
7. Intergenerational vs. Intragenerational mobilities.
8. Dr. Mario Barrera’s arguments on Deficiency vs. Bias theories, variables used in the two different models (see lecture notes).
9. Push and pull theories in migration
10. Demographic theory in migration
11. Human capital theory in migration (including “brain drain”)
12. World system theory
13. Globalization
14. Outsourcing
15. Hispanic American’s history and migration patterns
16. Why most of them serve as “cheap labors”?
17. Their social, familial, and income characteristics
18. Which three ethnic groups of Hispanic and Asian have the highest population percentage?
19. Why Mexican Americans are also called “sojourners”?
20. Why they transferred from “colonized minority” to “immigration minority” (page 288)
21. Push and pull factors for Mexican Americans (page 289)
22. Immigration, colonization and intergroup competition (page 294-295)
23. Continuing colonization (295-296)
24. Protest and resistance (296)
25. Immigration (push and pull) (304)
26. The ethnic enclave (305-306)
27. Assimilation and pluralism (316-320)
28. Asian American’s history and migration patterns
29. Why Asian’s “model minority” image is wrong?
30. Which two Asian groups have the highest population percentages?
31. Chinese Americans (339-340)
32. Second generation (340-341)
33. Ethnic enclave (342-343)
34. An American success story and critique (344)
35. Korean American (352)
36. Pilipino American (353)
37. Prejudice and discrimination against Asian American (354-355)
38. Assimilation and pluralism of Asian Americans (355-365)
39. Weak political power of Asian Americans (lecture and textbook)
40. Arab American’s migration pattern and educational/occupational characteristics
41. Arab’s contribution to the world (lecture notes)
42. Middle east and Arab Americans (384-386)
43. 9-11 and after (387-388)
44. Views toward immigrants (392-393)
45. Is contemporary assimilation segmented? (397-399)
46. Reliability (repeatedly getting the similar results) vs. validity (closely reflect the concepts being measured) (online notes)
47. Stratified random sample (e.g. randomly select the states, randomly select the schools from these states, randomly select the random samples from these schools)
48. Literature review (online notes, to review the most update arguments and empirical findings of the authors relating to the race/ethnicity study topic)
49. The core values of the U.S. society (lecture, such as hard working, competition, materialism, individualism etc)
50. The ideology of American individualism (416-417)