From different shores : perspectives on race and ethnicity in America

Book

From different shores : perspectives on race and ethnicity in America / [edited by] Ronald Takaki.

Takaki, Ronald T., 1939- (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 0195041879 (pbk. : alk. paper) :
ISBN: 9780195041873 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Physical Description: 253 pages ; 24 cm.
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 1987.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:: Bibliography: p. 251-253.
Formatted Contents Note:: The emergence of an American ethnic pattern / Nathan Glazer -- Reflections on racial patterns in America / Ronald Takaki -- First impressions : libidinous Blacks / Winthrop Jordan -- The metaphysics of civilization : Indians and the age of Jackson / Ronald Takaki -- Americanization and the Mexican immigrant, 1880-1930 / Mario T. García -- Strangers in the land : nativism and nationalism / John Higham -- Ethnic enterprise in America : Japanese, Chinese, and Blacks / Ivan Light -- Identity and culture / Vine Deloria, Jr. -- The "giddy multitude" : race and class in early Virginia / T.H. Breen -- Puerto Ricans and the political economy of New York / Clara E. Rodríguez -- Wampum to pictures of presidents / Gerald Vizenor -- Chicano class structure / Mario Barrera.

A theory of ethnic antagonism : the split labor market / Edna Bonacich -- Colonized and immigrant minorities / Robert Blauner -- White women, Black women : the dualism of female identity and experience / Phyllis Marynick Palmer -- Labor market stratification : the Chicana experience / Denise Segura -- Slaying demons with a sewing needle : feminist issues for Chinatown's women / Chalsa Loo and Paul Ong -- Puertorriqueñas in the United States : the impact of double discrimination / Lourdes Miranda King -- Beyond the stereotype : a new look at the immigrant woman / Maxine S. Seller -- Race, class, and gender : prospects for an all-inclusive sisterhood / Bonnie Thornton Dill -- Beyond racism / William Raspberry -- We've more than our quota of quotas / Thomas Sowell.

Affirmative action in a zero-sum society / Lester Thurow -- To count or not to count by race and gender? / Ronald Takaki -- The Black community in the 1980s : questions of race, class, and public policy / William Julius Wilson -- "White popular wisdom" : losing ground / Charles Murray -- A dream deferred : the crisis of "losing ground" / Ronald Takaki.