Minorities: What's a Minority?
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Introduces the concept of "minority" and provides various academic and popular approaches to its definition. Concludes, through interviews with both experts and non-experts, that in the United States "minority group" refers to people who can be distinguished by physical characteristics, religious beliefs, and national origins which differ from the white, Anglo-Saxon, Protestant model thought to make up the majority of the population. Points out that since the United States is a nation of minorities no group represents a true majority of the population.
Copyright
Registered 11Oct72 · MP23587 (Jan-Jun 1973) Copyright holder: Coronet Instructional Films, a division of Esquire, Inc Production company: MINORITY? Coronet Instructional Films
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Introduces the concept of "minority" and provides various academic and popular approaches to its definition. Concludes, through interviews with both experts and non-experts, that in the United States "minority group" refers to people who can be distinguished by physical characteristics, religious beliefs, and national origins which differ from the white, Anglo-Saxon, Protestant model thought to make up the majority of the population. Points out that since the United States is a nation of minorities no group represents a true majority of the population., NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.
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- Minorities From Europe 1972
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- Minorities: What's a Minority? 1972
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- 16mm Filmography (legacy record) — title, year, creator, length, format, color, sound, description, catalog record
- U.S. Copyright Office, Catalog of Copyright Entries (renewals, 1970–1978) — copyright
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