Organizational Intelligence: Knowledge and Policy in Government and Industry.

Abstract

Banton goes on to introduce a tentative scheme or typology involving six orders of race relations; institutionalized contact, leading either to domination and then pluralism or to paternalism and then integration; and acculturation also leading to integration. He is at pains to dissociate these suggested sequences from the cyclical theories of race relations elaborated by writers, such as Park, Bogardus, Glick and others; he offers them rather as approximations for testing and polishing in field situations. The main part of the book contains analyses of a wide variety of situations in terms of these orders, including single sections dealing with the United States, South Africa, Colonial Africa, Brazil and different types of New World slavery, and, finally, the contemporary situation in Britain. Here the writer makes some not entirely convincing criticisms of the 'immigration perspective' as opposed to the race perspective'. Full absorption (whether it leads to assimilation or pluralistic integration) does, after all, usually take at least three generations, and the second generation, of whatever colour, generally has to face adverse conditions and hostile stereo-

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