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America beyond black and white : how immigrants and fusions are helping us overcome the racial divide / Ronald Fernandez.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fernandez, Ronald.
- Series:
- Contemporary political and social issues
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Assimilation (Sociology).
- Multiracial people.
- Social conditions.
- United States--Race relations.
- United States.
- Race relations.
- United States--Ethnic relations.
- Ethnic relations.
- United States--Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.
- Emigration and immigration.
- Social aspects.
- Immigrants--United States--Social conditions.
- Immigrants.
- Minorities--United States--Social conditions.
- Minorities.
- Multiracial people--United States--Social conditions.
- Assimilation (Sociology)--United States.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 285 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2007.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- 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 American population?Mexicans, Chinese, Japanese, Koreans, Indians, Arabs, and many more?who are breaking down and recreating the very definitions of race. Drawing on interviews with hundreds of Americans who don?t fit conventional black/white categories, the author invites us to empathize with thesedoubles? and to understand why they may represent our best chance to throw off the strictures of the black/white dichotomy. Ronald Fernandez is Professor of Sociology in the Criminal Justice Department at Central Connecticut State University.
- Contents:
- 1. A historical opportunity : immigrants, fusions, and the reconfiguration of American culture
- 2. Dead end : the white/black dichotomy
- 3. Murals and Mexicans : Chicanos in the United States
- 4. Asian Americans : non-European and nonwhite
- 5. The other others : Indians and Arabs
- 6. The Caribbean : Puerto Ricans, West Indians, Cubans
- 7. The question marks : mixed-race Americans
- 8. A heart transplant
- Epilogue : our fusion family.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 274-276) and index.
- Description based on information from the publisher.
- ISBN:
- 9780472116096
- 0472116096
- 9780472021758
- Publisher Number:
- 10.3998/mpub.268662
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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