Diverse nations : explorations in the history of racial and ethnic pluralism / George M. Fredrickson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fredrickson, George M., 1934-2008.

Series:

U.S. history in international perspective

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cultural pluralism--United States.

Cultural pluralism.

United States.

Ethnicity--United States.

Ethnicity.

United States--Ethnic relations.

Ethnic relations.

United States--Race relations.

Race relations.

Physical Description:

viii, 232 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Boulder : Paradigm Publishers, [2008]

Contents:

Models of American ethnic relations : a historical perspective

The historical construction of race and citizenship in the United States

America's diversity in comparative perspective

John Higham's plural America

The skeleton in the closet

They'll take their stand : Davis and Genovese

America's original sin

The long trek to freedom

Redcoat liberation

Black hearts and monsters of the mind : race and identity in antebellum America

Still separate and unequal : the strange career of affirmative action

Race and racism in historical perspective : comparing the United States, South Africa, and Brazil

Beyond race? Ideological color-blindness in the United States, Brazil, and South Africa

Diverse republics : French and American responses to racial pluralism

Mulattoes and métis : attitudes toward miscegenation in the United States and France since the seventeenth century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-216) and index.

ISBN:

9781594515736

1594515735

OCLC:

181142803