America beyond black and white : how immigrants and fusions are helping us overcome the racial divide /

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A call for a new way of imagining race in America. For the first time in U.S. history, the black-white dichotomy that has historically defined race and ethnicity is being challenged, not by a small minority, but by the fastest-growing and arguably most vocal segment of the increasingly diverse Ameri...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Fernandez, Ronald
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2007.
Series:Contemporary political and social issues.
Subjects:
Immigrants > United States > Social conditions.
Minorities > United States > Social conditions.
Racially mixed people > United States > Social conditions.
Assimilation (Sociology) > United States.
Assimilation (Sociologie) > États-Unis.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Racially mixed people > Social conditions
Assimilation (Sociology)
Emigration and immigration > Social aspects
Ethnic relations
Immigrants > Social conditions
Minorities > Social conditions
Race relations
United States > Race relations.
United States > Ethnic relations.
United States > Emigration and immigration > Social aspects.
États-Unis > Relations raciales.
États-Unis > Relations interethniques.
États-Unis > Émigration et immigration > Aspect social.
United States
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • A historical opportunity : immigrants, fusions, and the reconfiguration of American culture
  • Dead end : the white/black dichotomy
  • Murals and Mexicans : Chicanos in the United States
  • Asian Americans : non-European and nonwhite
  • The other others : Indians and Arabs
  • The Caribbean : Puerto Ricans, West Indians, Cubans
  • The question marks : mixed-race Americans
  • A heart transplant
  • Epilogue : our fusion family.

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