Benjamin Ringer And Lawless: An Analysis

The relationship between African Americans and white people in the United States has been one of contention and struggle for equality that follows a relatively unique timeline. This subordinate-superordinate relationship based on race which manifests itself in all sectors of life according to sociologists stems from the way in which different ethnic groups were introduced to the society in addition to the ways in which the groups interact. These theories are used to make sense of the racial or ethnic relationships over an amount of time. We have been briefly introduced to race relation cycle theory in the previous unit’s readings focusing on racism. With this reading, Benjamin Ringer and Eleanor Lawless dig deeper into the sociologists thinking in terms of race relationships.
Throughout the text, Ringer and Lawless make their objective that relationships between racial and ethnic groups that match this minority-majority situation have
The text points out that there are specific tactics in which the powerful majority uses in order to take or maintain control. There are two ways in which a superordinate group becomes the majority. When a group is already the major power and it welcomes migrants it would fall under the entry at the top considering the group does not have to do much to gain power. If the majority was at one point the migrant in this situation they would enact a hegemonic approach similar to that of the Spanish in Latin America in order to usurp the power of the indigenous people. That approach is defined as entry at a lower level which is what the text focuses on for a significant amount of time. The majority groups as a tactic to maintain power introduce