Americans All Race and Ethnic Relations in Historical, Structural, and Comparative Perspectives

by Kivisto, Peter; Ng, Wendy

• ISBN13: 9780195330533
• ISBN10: 0195330536
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-04-01
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

The second edition of Peter Kivisto and Wendy Ng's Americans All introduces foundational ideas and concepts about race and ethnic groups and applies them to issues and events relevant to today's college student population. The text combines both empirical and theoretical material and isdesigned to help students better understand our highly diverse society. It illustrates the importance of using sociology to identify and assess both the dynamics of ethnic conflicts and the forces that might serve to create a more harmonious society. This text differs from other race and ethnic group texts in three significant ways: * First, it is more historically grounded, making use of the scholarship of social historians in an interdisciplinary way. * Second, it offers a genuinely comparative perspective. The authors highlight similarities and differences between and among groups--as well as distinctions in time, place, and circumstance--that account for contemporary differences in the social locations and well-being of the nation's majorethnic groups. Likewise, cross-national comparisons make sense of how the United States relates to other major liberal democracies in the world. * Third, the book examines the inner workings of racial and ethnic communities, including discussions of group cultures, institutions, resources, and internal divisions. New features of this completely updated and streamlined edition include: * A new chapter on multiculturalism that provides insightful comparisons between the United States and Australia, Canada, France, Germany and Great Britain. * "Voices"--boxed inserts in each chapter--that provide first-person accounts of the impact of ethnic identity on everyday lived experience. * In-depth discussions of theoretical developments in the field, particularly focusing on current discussions of multiculturalism and transnationalism. * Greater attention to the interplay between ethnicity, class, and gender. * Extensive use of the most cutting-edge research on new immigrants in the United States. * An Instructor's Manual/Testing Program and online Interactive Student Study Guide are available.

Table of Contents

Part 1

Ethnic and Racial Dimensions

History and Social Structure

Five Lives: Identities and Experiences

An Italian American

A Mexican American

An African American

A Chinese American

A Native American

Generalizing From the Specific Case

Making Visible the Invisible

Why Can''t They Be Like Us?

Nobody Knows the Trouble I''ve Seen

Ethnic Groups

Group Definitions and Boundaries

Choosing Names

Intergroup Relations

The Big Picture

What Is Ethnic America?

The Melting Pot

Cultural Pluralism

Alternative Images of Ethnic America

Toward a Conceptual Map of Ethnic Relations

The Emergence of Ethnic Studies

Clarifying Concepts

Nations, Nationality, and Nationalism

Minority Groups

Race

Ethnicity and Ethnic Groups

Religio-Ethnic Groups

Racial Groups

Ethnic Relations

Assimilation

Pluralism

Toward a New Model

Marxism and Social Classes

Rational Choice Theory

The Social Construction of Ethnicity

Ethnogenesis

Ethnicization

Emergent Ethnicity

The Invention of Ethnicity

Contemporary Diversity

Multiculturalism and Transnationalism

Ingroups, Outgroups, and Group Position

The Psychology of Prejudice

The Sociology of Prejudice and Discrimination

Explaining Ethnic Differences

Part 2

Constructing WASP Hegemony and the Racial "Other" From Colonial America to the Civil War

Nation Building

Albion''s Seed

Transplanting the Old World to the New

Nineteenth-Century Migration

The Core Society

Anglo-Saxon Protestant

Erin''s Children in America

Immigrant Adjustment

Communal Activities and Organizations

Nativism

Germans in America

The Early Ethnic Communit

Intraethnic Conflict

Interethnic Encounters

Coercive Pluralism and the Politics of Exclusion

The First of This Land

The Market Period (1600-1775)

The Conflict Period (1775-1850)

Relocation Policies

Beyond the Middle Passage

The Ideology of Racism

Slavery and the Plantation

The Origins of an African American Culture

The Community of Slaves

Slave Revolts

Free Persons of Color

Challenges to the Peculiar Institution

The Politics of Conquest

Travelers to Gold Mountain

Reconfiguring the Racial Divide

Immigration and White Supremacy, 1865-1950

Becoming Ethnic Americans

Peasants No More

The Italians

The Ethnic Community

Roman Catholicism

Education and Upward Mobility

Ethnic Stereotypes and the Mafia

Politics: Generational Change

The Birth and Maturation of Polonia in America

Emigration

The Immigrant Community Takes Shape

Cultural Values

Generational Change

The Jewish Diaspora

The Early Community Presence

The Ethnic Community Evolves

Religious Divisions

Political and Labor Organizations

Anti-Semitism

Upward Mobility

The Color Line From the Civil War to the Civil Rights Movement

From Emancipation to Jim Crow

African Americans

Reasserting White Domination

Leadership in the African American Community

Southern Race Relations

The Promised Land

The Development of the Black Community

The Latino Presence in the United States

Mexicans in the Southwest

Cubans and Puerto Ricans

The Chinese and Japanese

A Comparison

The Chinese and Immigration Restriction

Emigration and the Role of the Japanese Government

The Ethnic Community and Generational Differences

Native Americans During the Reservation Era

Reservations as Total Institutions

The Dawes Act and Acculturation Policies

Responding to Defeat

Stereotypes

The Indian New Deal

Part 3

From 1950 to the Twenty-First Century

European Americans

The Twilight of Ethnicity?

Suburbanization and White Ethnics

Does Ethnicity Matter?

The Case for Cultural Transmission

The Polish Americans

Italians

The Debate Over an Ethnic Revival

The Hansen Thesis

Political Ethnicity

Symbolic Ethnicity

Evidence from Census Findings

Ethnic Options

The Privatization of Ethnicity

The Invention of Ethnicity

Regional Identities

A European American Identity?

Jewish Exceptionalism?The Core Jewish Population

Continuity and Change

Intermarriage

The Specter of RaceW

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