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From different shores : perspectives on race and ethnicity in America /

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 deba...

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Contributors: Takaki, Ronald T., 1939-2009.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 1994.
Edition:2nd ed.
Subjects and Genres:
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Minorities.
Cross-cultural studies.
Minority Groups
Race Relations
Cross-Cultural Comparison
Minorités.
Études transculturelles.
minorities.
Ethnic relations.
Race relations.
Ethnische Beziehungen
Ethnische Identität.
Nationale Minderheit
Aufsatzsammlung
Rassen (mens)
Etnisch bewustzijn.
Ethnicité > Etats Unis.
Etats-Unis > Relations interethniques.
United States > Race relations.
United States > Ethnic relations.
United States
États-Unis > Relations raciales.
États-Unis > Relations interethniques.
United States.
USA.
Collected Work
Aufsatzsammlung.
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Table of 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.

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