Ronald Fernández

America's Banquet of Cultures (eBook, PDF)

Harnessing Ethnicity, Race, and Immigration in the Twenty-First Century

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The melting pot is a myth, according to Fernandez, who shows that the United States is and always has been a banquet of cultures. As he argues, the best way to deal with the more than 20 million new immigrants since 1965 is to accept, recognize, and eagerly explore the differences among the American people. Fernandez seeks to forge a positive national consensus based on two building blocks. First, the nation's many ethnic groups can be a powerful source of unprecedented economic, artistic, and scientific creativity. Secondly, the nation's many ethnic groups offer a way to erase the black/white dichotomy which, masks the shared injustices of millions of European, Asian, African, Native, and Latino Americans. This is a provocative analysis of how we arrived at our current ethnic and racial dilemmas and what can be done to move beyond them. Scholars and students of American immigration and social policy as well as concerned citizens will find the book equally rewarding.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2000
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780313002489
• Artikelnr.: 68535145

Autorenporträt

RONALD FERNANDEZ is Professor of Sociology at Central Connecticut State University and is the author of, among other books, Prisoners of Colonialism: The Struggle For Justice in Puerto Rico (1994), Cruising the Caribbean: U.S. Influence and Intervention in the Twentieth Century (1994), and Los Macheteros: The Violent Struggle for Puerto Rican Independence (1988).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface: Four All-Americans Immigrants
Serfs and Refugees: Who are They? Where Did They Come From? Old Blood
New Blood
Weak Blood: The Nature of U.S. Immigration Laws Empires and Serfs: Migrant Labor in the United States Refugees and Other Aliens What Shall We Do with Our America? How Is Society Possible? Changing Colors Ethnic Extremes Social Class and Social Conflict Where Do We Go From Here? Compare and Contrast: Great Britain
Israel
India
and the United States The Twenty-first Century Bibliography Index