... were offered, they often entailed unsophisticated notions of individual prejudice and racial discrimination. For example, Thorsten Sellin (1935) conducted simple comparisons of the average length of sentences given to black, native-born and foreign-born white male prisoners within very broad offense categories. Sellin claimed that the data revealed "the marked influence of race and nationality prejudice in the administration ... whites and non-whites. The "non-white" category is especially problematic because it is unclear which racial groups it includes or how they are distributed. Sep...

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... join together in support of that common cause. Early coalitions, generally disregarded in the broad view of history, established by enslaved Africans, free Africans, and Native Americans, helped to combat the Eurocentric stereotypes internalized by Native and African Americans. In attempting to include whites in such a coalition, it would be necessary for whites to give up any privileges granted them by the ... ...

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... a quote by Engels, writing in 1893 why there was "No Large Socialist Party in America" as follows: "Then and more especially, immigration, which divides the workers into two groups: The native born and the foreigners, and the latter into the Irish, the Germans, the many small groups, each of which understands only itself: Czechs, Poles, Italians, Scandinavians, etc. And then the ... ...

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