The Minority Rights Revolution

Skrentny, John D.

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“…A full analysis of all the historical forces and cultural conditions that mark and define multiculturalism as a movement and project for thinking about diversity in contemporary societies as distinct from other, earlier modes of understanding and dealing with difference is a massive and still far‐from‐finished project. The minority rights revolution (Skrentny ); the evolution of racial politics and attitudes in the post–Civil Rights era (Bobo and Charles ; Omi and Winant ); the proliferation of migration, internationalization, and globalization (Kymlicka ); the emergence of neoliberalism (Harvey ; Goldberg ); the continued persistence and even, in some respects, accentuation, of social and racial inequities and injustices (Carter and Reardon ): these are all key historical precursors to and current conditions of the social phenomena we associate with multiculturalism. Yet, my claim and intended contribution in this article has been somewhat more basic or fundamental.…”

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Reflections on Race, Diversity, and the Crossroads of Multiculturalism

Hartmann

2015

The Sociological Quarterly

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This article draws upon recent research on race and diversity, much of it conducted by the author and his collaborators on the American Mosaic Project at the University of Minnesota, to provide a critical-theoretical perspective on multiculturalism in contemporary American culture. It is based upon three main empirical findings. The first is that Americans are, on initial inspection, generally quite open to and optimistic about diversity. Further analysis and deeper probing, however, reveals a second, cross-cutting discovery: that thought and talk about diversity is marked by a series of underlying tensions and misgivings. The third and perhaps most important finding is that the discourse about diversity is deeply informed and determined-overdetermined perhaps-by race in the United States. Taken together, it is argued that the contradictory, race-based attitudes Americans exhibit toward diversity reflect and reproduce many of the key, animating ambivalences of multiculturalism in both theory and practice: for example, the tensions between individuals and groups and between abstract ideals and empirical realities. The article concludes by suggesting that multiculturalism is not only at a crossroads in the United States but is a crossroads where many conflicting impulses and ideals about solidarity, belonging, and equality come together in the same cultural space.

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Reflections on Race, Diversity, and the Crossroads of Multiculturalism

Hartmann

2015

The Sociological Quarterly

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“…Further complicating the story, recent scholarship suggests that institutional insiders, such as feminists within the Catholic Church, often play a central role in movements (Katzenstein 1998). 7 This view of actors also ignores actors within the state who may be as much challengers as members (Skrentny 2002; Santoro and McGuire 1997).…”

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Culture, Power, and Institutions: A Multi-Institutional Politics Approach to Social Movements

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2008

Sociological Theory

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We argue that critiques of political process theory are beginning to coalesce into a new approach to social movements-a "multi-institutional politics" approach. While the political process model assumes that domination is organized by and around one source of power, the alternative perspective views domination as organized around multiple sources of power, each of which is simultaneously material and symbolic. We examine the conceptions of social movements, politics, actors, goals, and strategies supported by each model, demonstrating that the view of society and power underlying the political process model is too narrow to encompass the diversity of contemporary change efforts. Through empirical examples, we demonstrate that the alternative approach provides powerful analytical tools for the analysis of a wide variety of contemporary change efforts. anonymous reviewers for helpful comments. A special thanks to Kristine Olsen for research assistance.

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“…One perspective predicts that the existing hierarchy of white/nonwhite will prevail, with whites as the dominant, mainstream group. Latinos, experiencing social and economic alienation, will incorporate as racialized minorities who exist as part of a large community of “people of color” (e.g., Skrentny, ). A second perspective suggests that a white/nonwhite binary system will remain, yet our understanding of who is white will shift as this category expands to incorporate Latinos and Asian Americans (e.g., Warren and Twine, ; Yancey, ; Gans, ; Lee and Bean, ).…”

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America's Shifting Color Line? Reexamining Determinants of Latino Racial Self‐Identification^*

Stokes‐Brown

2012

Social Science Quarterly

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Objectives Latinos are the nation's largest minority group and will double in size by 2050. Their size coupled with the fact that Latinos do not constitute a separate race raises questions about Latinos’ incorporation into the U.S. racial hierarchy. This article explores patterns of Latino racial identity formation, examining the determinants of racial identity. Methods Using the 2006 Latino National Survey, I estimate multinomial logit and ordered probit models of identification choices. Results Latino racial identity is strongly associated with several factors, including socioeconomic status, measures of perceived discrimination and commonality, and measures of acculturation/assimilation. Most Latinos have a broader, more complex understanding of race. Furthermore, some Latinos do believe that they occupy a unique position in the racial hierarchy. Conclusions The results suggest that the color line W. E. DuBois argued has long divided our nation may eventually shift.

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The Minority Rights Revolution

Cited by 126 publications

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Reflections on Race, Diversity, and the Crossroads of Multiculturalism

Reflections on Race, Diversity, and the Crossroads of Multiculturalism

Culture, Power, and Institutions: A Multi-Institutional Politics Approach to Social Movements

America's Shifting Color Line? Reexamining Determinants of Latino Racial Self‐Identification^*

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America's Shifting Color Line? Reexamining Determinants of Latino Racial Self‐Identification*

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