America as a multicultural society

Gordon, Milton Myron, 1918- (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 0877612609
ISBN: 9780877612605
ISBN: 0877612617 (pbk.)
ISBN: 9780877612612 (pbk.)
Physical Description: print
viii, 262 pages ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Philadelphia, PA : American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1981.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Preface / Milton M Gordon -- Post-World War II immigration to the United States : America's latest newcomers / David M Reimers -- Legal foundations of civil rights and pluralism in America / Charles M Lamb -- Black community in the 1980s : questions of race, class, and public policy / William Julius Wilson -- Black power and white reactions : the revitalization of race-thinking in the United States / Lewis M Killian -- Blacks and Jews : the strained alliance / Peter I Rose -- Fourth generation grows up : the contemporary American Jewish community / Chaim I Waxman -- Twilight of ethnicity among American Catholics of European ancestry / Richard D Alba -- Hispanic-Americans in the eastern United States / Joseph P Fitzpatrick and Lourdes Travieso Parker -- Mexican Americans / Harry P Pachon and Joan W Moore -- Asian-Americans : the Chinese, Japanese, Koreans, Philipinos, and southeast Asians / Harry H L Kitano --Native Americans : the American Indian today / Vine Deloria -- Muslims in the United States : settlers and visitors / M Arif Ghayur -- Bilingualism/biculturalism in American education : an adventure in wonderland / Fred G Burke -- Models of pluralism : the new American dilemma / Milton M Gordon -- Ethnic/racial relations in the United States in comparative perspective / Richard D Lambert -- Book department -- Index.