From different shores : perspectives on race and ethnicity in America / edited by Ronald Takaki.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Takaki, Ronald T., 1939-2009

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--Race relations.

United States.

United States--Ethnic relations.

Minorities.

Cross-cultural studies.

Minority Groups.

Race Relations.

Cross-Cultural Comparison.

minorities.

Ethnic relations.

Race relations.

Medical Subjects:

Minority Groups.

Race Relations.

Cross-Cultural Comparison.

United States.

Genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.

Physical Description:

vii, 299 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 1994.

Summary:

Now featuring a new section on public policy, and a wide range of new essays by many of the liveliest and most exciting figures in ethnic studies, this updated edition of a remarkably successful text introduces students to the diverse points of view on race and ethnicity in the U.S. Arranged in debate format, the essays address vital questions: How have the experiences of racial minorities in the United States been similar to and different from each other? Is "race" the same as "ethnicity"? How has culture shaped race and ethnic relations? What has been the relationship between race and class? How can race and gender be compared? Moreover, how can racial inequality be explained, and what public policies or strategies are needed to address it? One third of the selections are new, examining affirmative action, welfare dependency, and the Los Angeles riots, and including a debate between Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., and the editor on multicultural curricula and the campus "culture wars." Providing a fresh new look at America's complex and unique ethnic heritage, this text makes an invaluable contribution to any course on race, ethnicity, or social stratification.

Contents:

The emergence of an American ethnic pattern / Nathan Glazer

Reflections on racial patterns in America / Ronald Takaki

First impressions: libidinous blacks / Winthrop Jordan

The metaphysics of civilization: Indians and the Age of Jackson / Ronald Takaki

Strangers in the land: nativism and nationalism / John Higham

Border culture / Mario T. García

Ethnic enterprise in America: Japanese, Chinese, and blacks / Ivan Light

Identity and culture / Vine Deloria, Jr.

The "giddy multitude": race and class in early Virginia / T.H. Breen

Puerto Ricans and the political economy of New York / Clara E. Rodríguez

Wampum to pictures of presidents / Gerald Vizenor

Racial domination and class conflict in capitalist agriculture: the Oxnard Sugar Beet Workers' Strike of 1903 / Tomás Almaguer

A theory of ethnic antagonism: the split labor market / Edna Bonacich

Colonized and immigrant minorities / Robert Blauner

White women/black women: the dualism of female identity and experience / Phyllis Marynick Palmer

The development of Chicana feminist discourse / Alma M. Garcia

The feminist movement: where are all the Asian American women? / Esther Ngan-Ling Chow

Who is your mother?: red roots of white feminism / Paula Gunn Allen

Sweatshops and picket lines: European immigrant women / Elizabeth Ewen

Puertorriqueñas in the United States: the impact of double discrimination / Lourdes Miranda King

Race, class, and gender: prospects for an all-inclusive sisterhood / Bonnie Thornton Dill

Beyond racism / William Raspberry

We've more than our quota of quotas / Thomas Sowell

Affirmative action in a zero-sum society / Lester Thurow

To count or not to count by race and gender? / Ronald Takaki

The black community: race and class / William Julius Wilson

"White popular wisdom": losing ground / Charles Murray

A dream deferred: the crisis of "losing ground" / Ronald Takaki

Puerto Ricans and the underclass debate / Marta Tienda

The burden of support: young Latinos in an aging society / David E. Hayes-Bautista, Werner O. Schink, Jorge Chapa

Horizontal city / Richard Rodriguez

The Afrocentric idea / Molefi Kete Asante

Cultural pluralism / Diane Ravitch

The return to the melting pot / Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.

At the end of the century: the "culture wars" in the U.S. / Ronald Takaki.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

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Other Format:

Online version: From different shores.

ISBN:

0195083687

9780195083682

OCLC:

28332474

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