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Social Agency and White Supremacy in Immigration Studies

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Assimilation scholarship is rooted in the race relations framework that has been critiqued for providing
legitimacy to the prevailing racial order, not least because it credits ethno-racial group agency as the
mechanism that causes inequities among groups’ socioeconomic outcomes and the degrees to which they
are socially accepted. To explain socioeconomic inequities, alternative frames centering on racialization
and structural racism look to white supremacy and the unequal ends it engenders, but the sociological
theory developed in these alternatives is largely tangential to assimilation theory. That the assimilationist
model still dominates leaves a key part of the discipline vulnerable to supporting white supremacist
ideologies about societies falsely believed to be colorblindly meritocratic. For this reason I call upon
sociologists to work together to dethrone assimilationism from its exalted status in the sociology of
immigration and scholars of race knowledgeable in these alternative approaches to actively reenter the
arena of immigration studies and take the ground that has been ceded to the assimilationist frame. I suggest
these as next steps in a campaign to overturn the dominance of the race relations model in sociology as
a whole.

Keywords: racialization, assimilation, immigrant incorporation, white supremacy, social construction of race, race relations

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Judul Seri

Sociology of Race and Ethnicity

No. Panggil

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Penerbit

New York : American Sociological Association., 2015

Deskripsi Fisik

Sociology of Race and Ethnicity 2015, Vol. 1(1) 153– 165

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English

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DOI: 10.1177/2332649

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Tipe Media

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Edisi

2015, Vol. 1(1)

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SOSIOLOGI

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