I
studied Racial and ethnic Groups by Richard T. Schaefer in a psychology class.
I dropped out of the class because the professor was really too busy to teach
it, but I kept the book. Schaefer provides the psychological make up of
different ethnic groups in the United States. If you think that you are just an
individual American you are insane. We all belong to ethnic groups and we are
as developed as our groups. When we rise beyond the group while the group is
unhealthy we crash and burn. Schaefer exposes how the system of the United
States affects all of the ethnic groups living here as well as how these groups
deal with the system. Almost all of the ethnic groups create alternative
systems to compensate for what the dominate system neglects to do or does to
harm them. The only ethnic group that allows themselves to be attacked without
answer is the African American, or what I call the dark people. Racial and
Ethnic Groups by Richard T. Schaefer is one of my favorite books. I go back to
it constantly for information and so will you.
