Racial and Ethnic Groups Quotes

“Washing the men’s clothes, caring for their rooms, serving them
at table, listening to their orations, but themselves remaining
respectfully silent in public assemblages, the Oberlin “coeds”
were being prepared for intelligent motherhood and a properly
subservient wifehood. (Flexner 1959:30)”
― Richard T. Schaefer, Racial and Ethnic Groups

“They assume that
women are on a mommy track, an unofficial career track that firms use for women who
want to divide their attention between work and family. This assumption would be false if
applied to all women. It also implies that corporate men are not interested in maintaining
a balance between work and family. Even competitive, upwardly mobile women are not
always taken seriously in the workplace (Carlson, Kacmar, and Whitten 2006; Heilman
2001; Schwartz and Zimmerman 1992).”
― Richard T. Schaefer, Racial and Ethnic Groups

“maintain the facade that hid Chinatowns’ social
ills. Despite Chinese Americans’ remarkable achievements as a group, the inhabitants suffered by most
socioeconomic measures. Poor health, high suicide
rates, rundown housing, rising crime rates, poor working conditions, inadequate care for the elderly, and
the weak union representation of laborers were a few
of the documented problems (Liu and Geron 2008).”
― Richard T. Schaefer, Racial and Ethnic Groups

“Like several other Asian immigrant groups, Asian Indians (or East Indians) are recent
immigrants. Only 17,000 total came from 1820 to 1965, with the majority of those arriving before 1917. These pioneers were subjected to some of the same anti-Asian measures
that restricted Chinese immigration. For example, the Supreme Court (1923) ruled that
an Asian Indian could not become a naturalized citizen because they were not White
and therefore were excluded under the 1917 law that applied to all natives of Asia. This
prohibition continued until 1946.”
― Richard T. Schaefer, Racial and Ethnic Groups

“Asian Americans, like Native Americans, are not evenly distributed across the United
States. To lump these people together ignores the sharp differences between them. Any
examination of Asian Americans quickly reveals their diversity, which will be apparent as
we focus on individual Asian American groups, beginning with Asian Indians.”
― Richard T. Schaefer, Racial and Ethnic Groups

“In 2010, half of Asian Americans 25 years old or older held
bachelor’s degrees, compared with 28 percent of the White population (Bureau of the
Census 2011a).”
― Richard T. Schaefer, Racial and Ethnic Groups

“Criminal Justice
A complex, sensitive topic affecting African Americans is their role in criminal justice. It
was reported in 2010 that Blacks constitute 4.7 percent of all lawyers, 14.1 percent of police
officers, 14.9 percent of detectives, and 28.6 percent of security guards but 39 percent of
jail inmates.”
― Richard T. Schaefer, Racial and Ethnic Groups

“About one in 16 White males can expect to go to a state or
federal prison during his lifetime, yet for Black males this lifetime probability is one out
of three (Bureau of the Census 2010a:Tables 320, 346, 615; Gaines 2005).”
― Richard T. Schaefer, Racial and Ethnic Groups