Buch, Englisch, 430 Seiten, Format (B × H): 183 mm x 260 mm, Gewicht: 1035 g
Race and Ethnic Relations in Historical, Structural, and Comparative Perspectives
Buch, Englisch, 430 Seiten, Format (B × H): 183 mm x 260 mm, Gewicht: 1035 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-533053-3
Verlag: Oxford University Press
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.
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- Part I: Thinking About Race and Ethnicity
- 1: Ethnic and Racial Dimensions
- History and Social Structure
- Five Lives: Identities and Experiences
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- Ethnic Groups
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- Intergroup Relations
- The Big Picture: What Is Ethnic America?
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- 2: Toward a Conceptual Map of Ethnic Relations
- The Emergence of Ethnic Studies
- Clarifying Concepts
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- Ethnicity and Ethnic Groups
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- Ethnic Relations
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- Toward a New Model
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- The Social Construction of Ethnicity
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- Contemporary Diversity: Multiculturalism and Transnationalism
- Ingroups, Outgroups, and Group Position
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- 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
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- Erin's Children in America
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- Germans in America
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- Coercive Pluralism and the Politics of Exclusion
- The First of This Land
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- Beyond the Middle Passage
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- 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
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- The Birth and Maturation of Polonia in America
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- The Jewish Diaspora
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- The Color Line From the Civil War to the Civil Rights Movement
- From Emancipation to Jim Crow: African Americans
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- The Latino Presence in the United States
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- The Chinese and Japanese: A Comparison
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- Native Americans During the Reservation Era
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- 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
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- The Debate Over an Ethnic Revival
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- Symbolic Ethnicity
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- The Invention of Ethnicity
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- Jewish Exceptionalism?
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- The Specter of Race
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- 6: African Americans: The Enduring American Dilemma
- The Civil Rights Movement: 1940-1970
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- Two Controversies
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- Housing and Residential Segregation
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- The Enduring Significance of Race
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- 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
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- Political Activism
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- Ongoing Conflict With White America
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- Development Plans on Native American Reservations
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- Quality of Life on Reservations
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- 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
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- Puerto Ricans
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- Mexican Americans
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- 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
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- Chinese Americans
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- Korean Americans
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- Filipino Americans
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- Other Asians
- Education and Occupation
- Prejudice and Discrimination
- 10: Multicultural Prospects in Comparative Perspective
- The United States in Comparative Perspective
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- Western Europe
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- A Multicultural America in the Twenty-First Century
- References
- Subject Index
- Author Index
