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3rd ed. |
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iv, 268 pages ; 24 cm |
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| Note |
Originally: "From different shores" (2nd ed.)--Publisher's info. |
| Contents |
The Twenty-First Century: we will all be minorities -- I: PATTERNS: ETHNICITY VERSUS RACE: The emergence of an American ethnic pattern / Nathan Glazer -- Reflections on racial patterns in America / Ronald Takaki -- II: NATIONAL IDENTITY: THE MASTER NARRATIVE OF AMERICAN HISTORY AND ITS DISCONTENTS: The significance of the frontier in American history / Frederick Jackson Turner -- The significance of the frontier in Native American history / Ronald Takaki -- The clash of civilizations: in the world and in the U.S. / Samuel P. Huntington -- Reinventing "America": call for a new national identity / Elizabeth Martínez -- III: CLASS: BELOW THE DECK OF THE PEQUOD: Origins of the Southern labor system / Oscar and Mary F. Handlin -- Why the switch to slavery: fears of rebellious White workers / Ronald Takaki -- The paradoxical tragedy of White and Black laborers in the South / W.E.B. DuBois -- Organized labor and civil rights / Harvard Sitkoff -- Racial domination and class conflict in capitalist agriculture: the Oxnard Sugar Beet Workers' Strike of 1903 / Tomás Almaguer -- Immigrants and workfare workers / Grace Chang -- IV: DIVERSITIES WITHIN: GENDER AND OTHER DIFFERENCES: A bridge to college for Jewish sons: daughters in the sweatshops / Susan A. Glenn -- Double discrimination for Puerto Rican women / Lourdes Miranda King -- Race, class, and gender: prospects for an all-inclusive sisterhood / Bonnie Thorton Dill -- Stories from the homefront: perspectives of Asian American parents with lesbian daughters and gay sons / Alice Y. Hom -- Voices from the movement: approaches to multiraciality / Cynthia L. Nakashima -- V: POLICIES: STRATEGIES AND SOLUTIONS: The Negro today is like the immigrant yesterday / Irving Kristol -- The Black community: race and class / William Julius Wilson -- The limits of immigration / Robert J. Samuelson -- Fear of foreigners: immigrants as scapegoats for domestic woes / Gregory Defreitas -- What to do about crime / James Q. Wilson -- What to do and not to do about crime / Elliott Currie -- Ending affirmative action / Pete Wilson -- Defending affirmative action / Chang-Lin Tien -- American Blacks, it turns out, are not like the immigrants of yesterday / Nathan Glazer -- VI: PROSPECTS: The return to the melting pot / Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. -- A different mirror: multicultural ties that bind America / Ronald Takaki. |
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United States -- Race relations.
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United States -- Ethnic relations.
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Ethnic relations. (OCoLC)fst00916005
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Race relations. (OCoLC)fst01086509
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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Aufsatzsammlung.
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Nationale Minderheit.
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Rassenbeziehung.
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USA.
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| Genre/Form |
Aufsatzsammlung.
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| Added Author |
Takaki, Ronald T., 1939-2009.
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| Added Title |
From different shores.
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| ISBN |
0195146514 |
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9780195146516 |
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