Yossi Shain

Marketing the American Creed Abroad

Diasporas in the U.S. and Their Homelands

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the interaction of domestic and foreign issues in the lives of ethnic Americans. Arguing that the damaging impact of ethnic influences on U.S. foreign affairs has been overstated and misrepresented, Shain brings a new dimension to the public debate on multiculturalism by exploring its transnational aspects. Ethnic groups, despite residual attachments to their homelands, do not betray American political values and ideals, but, on the contrary, their involvement in homeland related affairs has been instrumental in their dissemination inside and outside the U.S.. Shain evaluates ethnic groups in the U.S. from a broad theoretical and comparative perspective, and his case studies include, among others, Arab-Americans, Mexican-Americans, and African-Americans.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. März 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 160mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 603g
• ISBN-13: 9780521642255
• ISBN-10: 0521642256
• Artikelnr.: 22121567

Inhaltsangabe

1. US diasporas in the era of transnationalism
2. US ethnic diasporas in the struggle for democracy and self-determination
3. Arab-American identity and new transnational challenges
4. Transnational influences on ethnoracial relations in the US: the case of Black/Jewish disputes
5. 'Go but do not forget me': Mexico, the Mexican diaspora and US-Mexican relations
6. Conclusion: diasporas and the American national interest.