Marriage and Family Differences Among Lower-class Negro and East Indian Women in Trinidad

ROBERT R. BELL is Professor of Sociology at Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The various power relationships that may exist between indigenous and immigrant groups have been extensively studied by anthropologists and sociologists.’ Any two or more ethnic, religious, or racial groups in a society may fall at a stage between total conflict and total assimilation with regard to each other. Furthermore, conflict between two or more groups in a society may be dealt with in various ways. At one extreme the differences may be resolved through destruction or coercion directed by the group with the greatest power. But when the various forms of force are not used there are other social processes that may be utilized. One social process that often results from competition and conflict between