John A. Kromkowski

Annual Editions: Race and Ethnic Relations 04/05

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This fourteenth edition of Annual Editions: Race & Ethnic Relations is a collection of articles from the best of the public press. The articles discuss race and ethnicity in the American legal tradition; immigration and the American experience; indigenous ethnic groups; Hispanic and Latino Americans; Asian Americans; African Americans; the ethnic legacy; international challenges for the 1990's; and understanding cultural pluralism.

Produktdetails

• Annual Editions: Race & Ethnic
• Verlag: Dushkin Publishing
• Erscheinungstermin: Dezember 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 280mm x 204mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 531g
• ISBN-13: 9780072861365
• ISBN-10: 0072861363
• Artikelnr.: 21170414

Inhaltsangabe

UNIT 1. Racial and Ethnic Identity, Communities, and the Persistence of
Diversity in America
1. New Americans Fresh Off the Presses, Daniel Akst, Carnegie Reporter,
Spring 2003
Daniel Akst’s account of currents in the ethnic media, which are helping
new immigrants to retain their links abroad and their simultaneous
commitment to becoming U.S. citizens, expresses the emergence of
contemporary ethnic group attitudes in an age of global interaction.
Research on the ethnic media capsulized in this article invites the analyst
to reconsider a range of communications and cultural issues that are also
salient for politics and marketing.
2. Integrated People, Integrated Places, D’Vera Cohn, Washington Post, July
29, 2002
D’Vera Cohn reviews the new residential patterns now measurable owing to
congressional mandates and the Office of Management and Budget’s
authorization of data collection options used for the first time in the
2000 census. The tabulation of responses by self-selected, multiracial
persons reveals a new geographical dimension and a new personal index of
integration in America.
3. Parishes in Transition: Holding on While Letting Go, Jessica Trobaugh
Temple and Erin Blasko, South Bend Tribune, May 8, 2003
These local accounts of Hispanic, Hungarian, and Polish communities reveal
the transition experienced by ethnic Catholic parishes in an older
industrial city of the Midwest.
4. ‘New Brooklyns’ Replace White Suburbs, Rick Hampson, USA Today, May 19,
2003
Rick Hampson’s new metaphor found in his report on the migration from
cities to suburbs and in recent census data indicates the ongoing shift of
urban ethnicities and the formation of new patterns of residential and
migrant-group interaction as the metropolitization of America enters its
fifth decade.
5. It’s Blarney Meets Chutzpah, Over Red Wine and Green Beer, Jennifer
Medina, New York Times, March 17, 2003
The convergence on the same night of two religious holidays—Saint Patrick’s
Day and Purim—brings together Catholics and Jews in New York City to
celebrate.
6. Old Clichés of Racists, Hicks and Hillbillies Die Hard When the Movies
Head Below the Mason-Dixon Line, Scott Bowles, USA Today, February 8, 2002
Scott Bowles’s review of the influence of American films that portray
Southern culture reveals the role and impact of imaginative creations that
shape popular consciousness. More important, he raises questions about
distinguishing “literary ethnicity” from the historical and lived
experiences of ethnic populations.
UNIT 2. American Demography: Pieces of the Ambiguous Legacies
Part A. Slavery, Segregation, and Racialism
7. The Slave History You Don’t Know, Scott McLemee, The Chronicle of Higher
Education, May 16, 2003
Scott McLemee’s account of research on the regional history of slavery
reveals an ignored dimension of the American past. He underscores the
relevance of the local and specific character of ethnic group circumstances
and the influence of regional contexts on relationships of ethnic and
racial groups.
8. Interracial Intimacy, Randall Kennedy, The Atlantic Monthly, December
2002
Randall Kennedy’s thoughtful reflection on white-black dating and adoption
traces the history of these most elemental aspects of racial interaction.
He reports on current lines of argument and the interest in practices of
exclusion and proscription that were invalidated in Loving v. Commonwealth
of Virginia (1967).
Part B. Other Dimensions of Diversity
9. The Diversity Visa Lottery—A Cycle of Unintended Consequences in United
States Immigration Policy, Anna O. Law, Journal of American Ethnic History,
Summer 2002
Anna Law’s account of the immigration reforms dating from 1965 and the
current public practice of awarding visas by country lottery reveals the
curious logic and trajectory of cultural, economic, and democratic
assumptions at work.
10. 2000 Census Ethnicity Data, McGraw-Hill/Dushkin, 2002
This table, derived from the 2000 U.S. census, displays a small portion of
the material collected on ancestry and ethnic heritage, which considerably
widens and deepens our understanding of cultural pluralism.
UNIT 3. Interpreting and Understanding Immigration
11. Emerging Issues: National Origin Discrimination in Employment, Joanna
Carey Smith, Popular Government, Fall 2002
Joanna Carey Smith provides a detailed review of national origin in the
legal history of protected civil rights and forecasts the growth of
litigation and human resource management issues related to immigrants in
the workforce.
12. The South’s Changed Face, Anne Hull, Washington Post National Weekly
Edition, December 16–22, 2002
Anne Hull’s account of the changing South and its first large-scale
demographic transformation indicates that the impact of population change
and immigration has reached the final frontiers of America.
13. Old and New Migrants in the Twentieth Century: A European Perspective,
Leo Lucassen, Journal of American Ethnic History, Summer 2002
The current arena of transnational migration and globalization suggests
that revisiting the movement of peoples into America can become a fruitful
model from which group relations can be explained and understood.
14. The Immigrant Language Transition, Then and Now, Walter D. Kamphoefner,
The Immigration and Ethnic History Newsletter, May 2003
Walter Kamphoefner’s findings on patterns of immigrant language use—one of
the central measures of acculturation and assimilation—establishes a
framework for discussions of and policies on the limits and extent of
cultural pluralism.
UNIT 4. Indigenous Ethnic Groups
15. An Introduction to Indian Nations in the United States, National
Congress of American Indians, February 2001
This record of the legal relations between Native Americans and the
government of the United States provides evidence for the unique
relationship of indigenous ethnic populations to the American reality.
16. Pact Gives Canadian Tribe Wide Powers, DeNeen L. Brown, Washington
Post, August 26, 2003
DeNeen Brown’s report on changing relationships between Canada’s indigenous
populations and its government provides a glimpse into the process of
forging alternative forms of power sharing and decentralization.
17. Northwest Tribe Struggles to Revive Its Language, Robert E. Pierre,
Washington Post, March 31, 2003
Robert Pierre’s account of one tribe’s struggle for language maintenance
reveals the relevance of and devotion to traditional culture that emerge at
the intersections with others.
UNIT 5. Hispanic/Latino Americans
18. ¿Tienen Numeros?, Joan Raymond, American Demographics, March 2002
Based on information gleaned from Census 2000, media and market research
firms are gathering data on the Hispanic broadcast market and language
preferences as they relate to advertising and programming.
19. Inventing Hispanics: A Diverse Minority Resists Being Labeled, Amitai
Etzioni, Brookings Review, Winter 2002
This article discloses the ramifications of Census Bureau categories and
definitions as they relate to the classification of Hispanics as a
homogenous group rather than as a variety of ethnic groups.
20. ‘American Family’: Mi Casa Es Su Casa, Chon Noriega, The Chronicle of
Higher Education, March 8, 2002
Chon Noriega’s review and commentary on the television series that
attempted to chronicle the archetypical/prototypical saga of the Mexican
American family invites us into the world of literary ethnicity and the
processes of social imagination used in mass and niche communications and
media.
21. Summer Can Be Lethal for Illegals, Patrick O’Driscoll and Haya El
Nasser, USA Today, May 19, 2003
The imaginative and frequently heroic side of immigration is portrayed in
the struggle and danger documented by the stunning data in this account and
in the cost of human life lost.
UNIT 6. Afri
can Americans
22. The Black Gender Gap, Ellis Cose, Newsweek, March 3, 2003
Ellis Cose reports on the strides of black women into the mainstream of
economic and professional life and traces the new evocative debate of race,
class, and romance that has emerged.
23. Black America’s Real Albatross: The Schooling Gap ... a Cautionary Yet
Encouraging Tale, Jane Mack-Cozzo and Clint Bolick, The American
Enterprise, April/May 2003
This provocative account and promotion of a controversial remedy has moved
into center stage owing to congressional action related to schooling in the
District of Columbia.
24. Seeking to Heal Rift Between Hill’s Blacks and Jews, Betsy Rothstein,
The Hill, July 10, 2002
Betsy Rothstein’s report on the latest round of Jewish-black relations
reveals the meshing of politics into the fabric of intergroup dialogue and
describes how the foreign and domestic policy arenas intersect in these
very provocative and long-standing dimensions of public and human affairs.
UNIT 7. Asian Americans
25. The Myth of the Model Minority, Noy Thrupkaew, The American Prospect,
April 8, 2002
Noy Thrupkaew’s essay addresses the tension between strong values and the
existence of grim economic and social conditions for many Southeast Asians
in America. He argues that emphasis on Asian values may ignore and neglect
differences among Asian ethnicities and specific needs in disparate
communities.
26. In Pakistani Areas of New York City, a Lingering Fear, Marjorie Valbrun
and Ann Davis, Wall Street Journal, November 13, 2002
The authors report on the consequences of attention to terrorism and
homeland security, including arrests, alarm, and flight to Canada, revealed
in this account of Pakistani experiences.
27. Teens, Heritage on Collision Course, Rex W. Huppke, Chicago Tribune,
July 26, 2003
Rex Huppke’s feature story on the intersection of cultures within the
context of American teenage rituals reveals the resiliency, adaptability,
and creativity, and the potential for conflict and collision, in the
immigrant social imagination. He also discusses the social practices that
are at the heart of managing diversity.
28. A Proposal I Never Thought I’d Consider, Sabaa Saleem, Washington Post,
August 17, 2003
Sabaa Saleem’s account presents a provocative case study of the resiliency,
adaptability, and persistence of tradition and the processes of negotiating
the limits and boundaries of the old and new as they shape identity through
choices made.
UNIT 8. Public Policy Origins of Race and Ethnic Relations
29. Racial Restrictions in the Law of Citizenship, Ian F. Haney Lopez, from
White by Law: The Legal Construction of Race, New York University Press,
1996
This article traces the legal history of naturalization in the development
of the definitions and legal norms that affected American citizenship.
30. The Court & the University: An Exchange, Stanley Rothman, The New York
Review of Books, August 14, 2003
This exchange between Stanley Rothman and Ronald Dworkin illustrates the
difficulties related to applied research and reminds the reader that the
law, the court, and some research are driven by political choices and
expectations.
31. The Biggest Barrier to College Isn’t Race, Kermit L. Hall, The
Chronicle of Higher Education, June 20, 2003
Kermit Hall presents a thoughtful account of the struggle to assure
accessibility of higher education to the working poor and the middle class,
which is not really addressed in the current affirmative action cases or
debate.
32. Judges in U. of Michigan Case Skirted the Thorniest Issues, John D.
Skrentny, The Chronicle of Higher Education, May 31, 2003
John Skrentny’s essay, written in the wake of the Supreme Court decisions
on affirmative action in college and professional school admission
processes, poses questions regarding the next level of analysis and begins
another type of analytics required to get at the issues that these cases
ignored.
UNIT 9. Eastern European and Mediterranean Ethnics
33. N.Y.’s Unique ‘Jewish Reality’, Stevenson Swanson, Baltimore Sun,
August 30, 2003
Stevenson Swanson’s feature on a world of Jewish immigrants in New York
City invites us to recognize both historical and locational diversity
within ethnic populations and to reject stereotypical portrayals as
literary artifices and political devices.
34. Rabbi, Muslim Team Up for a Few Laughs, John Rivera, Baltimore Sun,
April 6, 2003
John Rivera reports on the rarely tried use of comedy in intergroup
relations, which exposes dimensions of human sensitivity and sensibility
related to intensely felt conflict and the expectation that fundamental
humanity can be discovered in the artifices of humorous encounters and
evocations.
35. Our Polish American Self Image: Responding to Its Detractors, Donald
Pienkos, Zgoda, August 15, 2001
Donald Pienkos presents a profile of variety within an ethnic population
and discusses ethnic identity and stereotypes related to Polish Americans.
36. We Are All Sopranos, Martha Bayles, The Chronicle of Higher Education,
December 6, 2002
More than a cliche or an exploitation of “sex, drugs, profanity, and
violence,” The Sopranos explores issues related to class and ethics that
engage us all.
37. From the Boat to the Book, Dona De Sanctis and Michael Greto, Italian
Americana, Spring 2003
Dona De Sanctis reports on the Sons of Italy initiative to promote a new
form of literary ethnicity that fosters historical and fictional
publication of works that expand the accessibility of the Italian American
experience.
38. Where We Stand on Issues, James J. Zogby, from What Ethnic Americans
Really Think: The Zogby Culture Polls, Zogby International, 2001
This collection of ethnic group opinions, based on the largest sample of
ethnic group representatives ever systematically studied, asks the reader
to reconsider the entire concept of race and ethnic group relations.
UNIT 10. International Dimensions of Race and Ethnic Relations
39. A City That Echoes Eternity, Kenneth L. Woodward, Newsweek, July 24,
2000
Kenneth Woodward suggests that through the collective memories of Abrahamic
faiths, Jerusalem transcends the physical world and transforms issues of
governance into precincts that strain both the human and the divine.
40. A German Court Accepts Teacher’s Head Scarf, Mark Landler, New York
Times, September 25, 2003
Mark Landler’s account of this case mirrors deeper questions of how
European countries are addressing a growing number of immigrants and how
they are institutionalizing approaches to tolerance and nondiscrimination
in public affairs.
41. For Jews in France, a ‘Kind of Intifada’, Glenn Frankel, Washington
Post, July 16, 2003
Glenn Frankel reports on the escalation in the number of hate crimes in
France and the community-based assaults against Jews, and he examines the
attendant increased concern about remedies and approaches to interethnic
vigilance and perhaps reconciliation.
42. Affirmative Action Debate Forces Brazil to Take Look in the Mirror, Jon
Jeter, Washington Post, June 16, 2003
Jon Jeter’s account of the current debate regarding affirmative action
policy in Brazil—a country that has the largest African diasporic
population—reveals much about color consciousness and the complexity
related to racial/ethnic pluralism, access to opportunity, and professional
mobility.
43. Ethnic, Religious Fissures Deepen in Iraqi Society, Rajiv
Chandrasekaran and Anthony Shadid, Washington Post, September 29, 2003
This article describes the ethnic and religious tensions that have
developed between the Kurds and other Arabs in a northern Iraqi village as
well as the problems between Sunni and Shiite Muslims in central and
southern Iraq that have unsettled many Iraqis who want their country to
stay in one piece.
44. Community Radio Gives India’s Villagers a Voice, Rama Lakshmi,
Washington Post, Septembe
r 17, 2003
Rama Lakshmi’s report on the technological change and the hopes of
empowerment brought about through microlevel initiatives in India and Sri
Lanka raises the question of whether these new capabilities will be used to
foment ethnic conflict.
UNIT 11. Understanding Pluralism: Exploring the Horizons and Challenges of
Ethnicity, Religion, and Group Relations
45. Tribal Warfare, Bernard Avishai, The American Prospect, August 13, 2001
Bernard Avishai writes, “Before they can reach a settlement with the
Palestinians, Israel’s ‘five tribes’ must navigate between Hebrew democracy
and Zionist revolution.”
46. Don’t Do Me Any Favors, John McWhorter, The American Enterprise,
April/May 2003
This collage of reflections on the search for clarity in discourse about
pluralism, diversity, and public policy reveals the potential and real
dynamics that demean ethnicity and racial identities and the isolation and
divisiveness that persist in the fragmented world of social meaning found
in many countries, including the United States.
47. The Geometer of Race, Stephen Jay Gould, Discover, November 1994
This is an account of the origins of the eighteenth-century scientific
climate of thought that contributed to the racial misunderstandings that
plague us today. The article reveals an important feature of theory
construction derived from insight into the history and philosophy of
science.
48. Racial Equality: Public Policies for the Twenty-First Century, The
Ninety-Eighth American Assembly, April 2001
The mandate of the American Assembly is to work toward racial equality and
social justice. The 2000 census indicates that the United States is rapidly
moving beyond the black-white paradigm. Issues at this meeting focused on
criminal justice, economic opportunity, immigration, and education reform.
49. The Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity, Phillip
Jenkins, Perspectives, May 2003
Phillip Jenkins extends his research on anti-Catholic prejudice in the
United States and addresses the implications of cultural/ethnic variety for
the future of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.