As the term is used in the text, minority refers to a group's numerical strength in the population.

While prejudices are attitudes, not all attitudes are prejudices.

Unless a subordinate group mounts a serious challenge to the dominant group, prejudice and discrimination are likely to seem part of the natural order of things.

Stereotypes never contain any truth.

The most prominent issue in minority education is school desegregation.

Housing segregation has decreased significantly during the past several decades.

In some ways, discrimination in employment is a direct result of discrimination in education.

Recent research on impoverished ghetto neighborhoods by William J. Wilson emphasizes that the economic and social distance between the small minority middle class and the poor is growing smaller.

The most common reaction against inequality during the past few decades has been public protest.

Affirmative action based on racial or gender criteria has been recently reaffirmed in every sector of American society.