Minority Group Assimilation: The Black/Non-Black Divide

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In my opinion, the black/non-black divide is the different situations of assimilation that faced by African American and the other minority groups such as Asian American and Latino American. In the article, Yancey mentioned that “This process of minority group assimilation into majority group culture and … as majority group member. Yet this process was not possible for African Americans. Slavery made it necessary for majority group members to maintain a caste system for African American that deprived them of any possible social acceptance, and … they are unable to engage in the process of assimilation that other racial and ethnic groups experienced.” (Yancey 2003: 45) And that’s the reason why black people can not integrate into this society

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