Americans All
Race and Ethnic Relations in Historical, Structural, and Comparative Perspectives
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Product details:
- Edition number 2
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 1 April 2005
- ISBN 9780195330533
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages430 pages
- Size 183x257x27 mm
- Weight 995 g
- Language English
- Illustrations halftones & line illus. 0
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Short description:
The second edition of Peter Kivisto and Wendy Ng's Americans All introduces foundational ideas and concepts about race and ethnic groups and applies them to issues and events relevant to today's college student population. The text combines both empirical and theoretical material and is designed to help students better understand our highly diverse society. It illustrates the importance of using sociology to identify and assess both the dynamics of ethnic conflicts and the forces that might serve to create a more harmonious society.
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The second edition of Peter Kivisto and Wendy Ng's Americans All introduces foundational ideas and concepts about race and ethnic groups and applies them to issues and events relevant to today's college student population. The text combines both empirical and theoretical material and is designed to help students better understand our highly diverse society. It illustrates the importance of using sociology to identify and assess both the dynamics of ethnic conflicts and the forces that might serve to create a more harmonious society.
This text differs from other race and ethnic group texts in three significant ways:
* First, it is more historically grounded, making use of the scholarship of social historians in an interdisciplinary way.
* Second, it offers a genuinely comparative perspective. The authors highlight similarities and differences between and among groups--as well as distinctions in time, place, and circumstance--that account for contemporary differences in the social locations and well-being of the nation's major ethnic groups. Likewise, cross-national comparisons make sense of how the United States relates to other major liberal democracies in the world.
* Third, the book examines the inner workings of racial and ethnic communities, including discussions of group cultures, institutions, resources, and internal divisions.
New features of this completely updated and streamlined edition include:
* A new chapter on multiculturalism that provides insightful comparisons between the United States and Australia, Canada, France, Germany and Great Britain.
* "Voices"--boxed inserts in each chapter--that provide first-person accounts of the impact of ethnic identity on everyday lived experience.
* In-depth discussions of theoretical developments in the field, particularly focusing on current discussions of multiculturalism and transnationalism.
* Greater attention to the interplay between ethnicity, class, and gender.
* Extensive use of the most cutting-edge research on new immigrants in the United States.
* An Instructor's Manual/Testing Program and online Interactive Student Study Guide are available.
I found this book to be refreshing in its candor, brilliant in its creativity, and exciting in its ability to provide fresh insights into what appear to be timeless questions for Americans. I like the authors' approach, which blends history, structure, and theory. I would characterize it as scholarly, challenging, critical, and highly readable.
Table of Contents:
Part I: Thinking About Race and Ethnicity
1: Ethnic and Racial Dimensions
History and Social Structure
Five Lives: Identities and Experiences
Ethnic Groups
Intergroup Relations
The Big Picture: What Is Ethnic America?
2: Toward a Conceptual Map of Ethnic Relations
The Emergence of Ethnic Studies
Clarifying Concepts
Ethnicity and Ethnic Groups
Ethnic Relations
Toward a New Model
The Social Construction of Ethnicity
Contemporary Diversity: Multiculturalism and Transnationalism
Ingroups, Outgroups, and Group Position
Explaining Ethnic Differences
Part II: Sociology Meets History
3: Constructing WASP Hegemony and the Racial "Other" From Colonial America to the Civil War
Nation Building
Erin's Children in America
Germans in America
Coercive Pluralism and the Politics of Exclusion
The First of This Land
Beyond the Middle Passage
The Politics of Conquest
Travelers to Gold Mountain
4: Reconfiguring the Racial Divide: Immigration and White Supremacy, 1865-1950
Becoming Ethnic Americans
Peasants No More: The Italians
The Birth and Maturation of Polonia in America
The Jewish Diaspora
The Color Line From the Civil War to the Civil Rights Movement
From Emancipation to Jim Crow: African Americans
The Latino Presence in the United States
The Chinese and Japanese: A Comparison
Native Americans During the Reservation Era
Part III: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow: From 1950 to the Twenty-First Century
5: European Americans: The Twilight of Ethnicity?
Suburbanization and White Ethnics
Does Ethnicity Matter? The Case for Cultural Transmission
The Debate Over an Ethnic Revival
Symbolic Ethnicity
The Invention of Ethnicity
Jewish Exceptionalism?
The Specter of Race
6: African Americans: The Enduring American Dilemma
The Civil Rights Movement: 1940-1970
Two Controversies
Housing and Residential Segregation
The Enduring Significance of Race
Into the Future
7: American Indians: The Continuing Plight of the First of This Land
The Indian Reorganization Act
Termination
Searching for Alternatives to Termination
Urbanization
Political Activism
Ongoing Conflict With White America
Development Plans on Native American Reservations
Quality of Life on Reservations
Native Americans in the White Mind
Uncertain Futures
8: Latino Americans: Into the Mainstream or on the Margins?
Latino Panethnic Unity or Ethnic Distinctiveness?
The Bilingual Issue
Cuban Americans
Puerto Ricans
Mexican Americans
New Latino Immigration: Central and South America and Caribbean
9: Asian Americans: The Myth of the Model Minority
The Model Minority: Myth and Reality
Japanese Americans
Chinese Americans
Korean Americans
Filipino Americans
Other Asians
Education and Occupation
Prejudice and Discrimination
10: Multicultural Prospects in Comparative Perspective
The United States in Comparative Perspective
Western Europe
A Multicultural America in the Twenty-First Century
References
Subject Index
Author Index
