The American kaleidoscope : race, ethnicity, and the civic culture /
Examines the historical patterns of ethnicity and the ways in which a national political culture has evolved to accommodate ethnic diversity. Compares the experiences of immigrant ethnic groups, African- Americans, and native Americans to each other and in relation to the national culture.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hanover, NH :
Wesleyan University Press,
[1990]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- "True Americanism": the foundations of the civic culture
- "Reinforcements to Republicanism": Irish Catholic response to the civic culture
- More Slovenian and more American: how the hyphen unites
- "Go back to the country from whence you came": predatory pluralism and the Native American response
- "This fourth of July is yours": African-Americans and caste pluralism
- "I go sad and heavy hearted": sojourner pluralism for Asians and Mexicans
- "The road of hope": Asians and Mexicans find cracks in the system
- "Do you understand your own language?": Black Americans' attack on caste
- "They never did really see me": the assertion of Black ethnic identity
- "We want full participation": African-Americans and coalition politics
- "We have to be part of the political system": redefining tribal pluralism
- "America is in the heart": Asian sojourners no longer
- "Can't they see? I love this country ... ": Mexican-Americans and the battle against sojourner pluralism
- Blood of all nations: the sources of ethnicity become global
- "From the mountains, to the prairies, to the oceans ... ": the spread of ethnic diversity
- Tacos and kimchee: the quickening pace of ethnic interaction
- Kashaya and the Nyingma: identities and boundaries
- "The wish of the founding fathers": third world immigrants embrace the civic culture
- "All these ... are the life blood of America": celebrating diversity
- Xenophobia, racism, and bigotry: conflict in the kaleidoscope
- "Equal and exact justice": the civil rights compact
- "To get beyond racism": integrating education and housing
- "To get beyond racism": political access and economic opportunity
- Respecting diversity, promoting unity: the language issue
- Questions of membership: who are the outsiders?