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Debating diversity : clashing perspectives on race and ethnicity in America
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
2002.
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| Edition: | 3rd ed. |
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Table of 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 Martinez
- 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 / Tomas 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 do 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.