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A 5 page review of several of the key issues detailed in the book “Strangers to These Shores: Race and Ethnic Relations in the United States 6TH Edition” by Vincent N. Parrillo. is an exhaustive study into prejudice and race relations in this country. Parrillo takes these issues back to the early history of the country and the societal structure which shaped the face of race relations for the years to come. He reveals the intimate connection between economics, prejudice and race. No additional sources are listed.
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Race and Ethnic Relations in the United States" is an exhaustive study into prejudice and race relations in this country. Parrillo takes these issues back to the early history
of the country and the societal structure which shaped the face of race relations for the years to come. He reveals the intimate connection between economics, prejudice and race.
Parrillo is particularly interested in the phenomenon of prejudice and discrimination. He identifies three key levels of prejudice and the manner in
which prejudice is related to discrimination. The underlying theme is an analysis of the stranger as a social phenomenon, thus the title of the book. Parrillo identifies cultural
differences as the key element in discrimination in group relations. In short, Parrillo explores the thesis that human groups inevitably develop prejudices towards other human groups. This contention
is supported both by world history and by current sociological and psychological studies. It can also be supported by common observations regarding the way we live, work, worship and
even play. Our cultures are more characterized by segregation than by integration in their natural state. It is only when we introduce the artificial constraints of the workplace
and school and when we have governmental intervention that we see any great degree of integration of cultures. Every group who has come
into contact with the predominant white culture of the United States has encountered prejudice. This is even true of those groups who were on this continent long before the
arrival of the whites. Parrillo presents the Cherokee people as just one example of this contention. Their culture is an ancient one and one which, like most cultures,
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