Debating diversity : clashing perspectives on race and ethnicity in America / edited by Ronald Takaki.

Other author Takaki, Ronald T., 1939-2009.
Format Book
Edition3rd ed.
Publication InfoNew York : Oxford University Press, 2002.
Descriptioniv, 268 pages ; 24 cm
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Subjects

Portion of title Clashing perspectives on race and ethnicity in America
Contents The Twenty-First Century: we will all be minorities -- I: PATTERNS: ETHNICITY VERSUS RACE: The emergence of an American ethnic pattern / Nathan Glazer -- Reflections on racial patterns in America / Ronald Takaki -- II: NATIONAL IDENTITY: THE MASTER NARRATIVE OF AMERICAN HISTORY AND ITS DISCONTENTS: The significance of the frontier in American history / Frederick Jackson Turner -- The significance of the frontier in Native American history / Ronald Takaki -- The clash of civilizations: in the world and in the U.S. / Samuel P. Huntington -- Reinventing "America": call for a new national identity/ Elizabeth Martinez -- III: CLASS: BELOW THE DECK OF THE PEQUOD: Origins of the Southern labor system / Oscar and Mary F. Handlin -- Why the switch to slavery: fears of rebellious White workers / Ronald Takaki -- The paradoxical tragedy of White and Black laborers in the South / W.E.B. DuBois -- Organized labor and civil rights / Harvard Sitkoff -- Racial domination and class conflict in capitalist agriculture: the Oxnard Sugar Beet Workers' Strike of 1903 / Tomas Almaguer -- Immigrants and workfare workers / Grace Chang -- IV: DIVERSITIES WITHIN: GENDER AND OTHER DIFFERENCES: A bridge to college for Jewish sons: daughters in the sweatshops / Susan A. Glenn -- Double discrimination for Puerto Rican women / Lourdes Miranda King -- Race, class, and gender: prospects for an all-inclusive sisterhood / Bonnie Thorton Dill -- Stories from the homefront: perspectives of Asian American parents with lesbian daughters and gay sons / Alice Y. Hom -- Voices from the movement: approaches to multiraciality / Cynthia L. Nakashima -- V: POLICIES: STRATEGIES AND SOLUTIONS: The Negro today is like the immigrant yesterday / Irving Kristol -- The Black community: race and class / William Julius Wilson -- The limits of immigration / Robert J. Samuelson -- Fear of foreigners: immigrants as scapegoats for domestic woes / Gregory Defreitas -- What to do about crime / James Q. Wilson -- What to do and not do do about crime / Elliott Currie -- Ending affirmative action / Pete Wilson -- Defending affirmative action / Chang-Lin Tien -- American Blacks, it turns out, are not like the immigrants of yesterday / Nathan Glazer -- VI: PROSPECTS: The return to the melting pot / Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. -- A different mirror: multicultural ties that bind America / Ronald Takaki.
Local noteLittle-357845--305131063149-
General noteOriginally: "From different shores" (2nd ed.)--Publisher's info.
Contains title From different shores.
LCCN 2001047642
ISBN0195146514
ISBN9780195146516

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Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner General Stacks E184.A1 F745 2002 ✔ Available Place Hold