Determining Minority Levels

Determining minority levels is a constant matter of history for both society and politics. Population characteristics other than race and ethnicity like age, gender, or religious preference are sometimes used to designate minority status. Race and ethnicity are the characteristics used most often to define the minority and majority populations in today’s society. The different experiences of racial groups are structurally embedded in society no matter what.
Power relations exist everywhere in our society. "People differ in all sorts of ways. There are differences between adults and children, men and women, employee and employer, the highly educated and uneducated, the light-skinned and dark-skinned and so forth." The perceptible differences