Equality Deferred : Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration in America, since 1945

by Olson, James S.

• ISBN13: 9780155074149
• ISBN10: 0155074148
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-05-07
• Publisher: Cengage Learning

Summary

Issues of diversity have been and remain a key aspect of contemporary America. James Olson draws on his experience as a distinguished scholar and teacher to develop a portrait that encompasses various ethnic groups in the U.S.?including African American, Native American, Hispanics, and immigrants from a variety of nations. In this brief text, he sketches the ever-changing ethnic portrait of America, incorporating the most relevant scholarship on the civil rights crusade, immigration quotas, various militant movements of the sixties, and the current state of ethnicity in the U.S. This volume is part of the AMERICA SINCE 1945 series--a collection of brief texts that seek to define the ways in which the United States has changed in the last 50 years.

Table of Contents

PART I The Age of Innocence, 1945-1965	1	(49)
Ethnic America in 1945	4	(13)
An Ethnic Geography	4	(5)
The Ethnic City	9	(2)
New Identities	11	(3)
Old Realities	14	(3)
The Civil Rights Crusade	17	(18)
Legal Battlefields	19	(6)
Martin Luther King, Jr., and Civil Disobedience	25	(10)
Welcoming Refugees and Ending Quotas, 1945-1965	35	(15)
Retreat from the Indian New Deal	37	(7)
Reds and Refugees	44	(2)
The Hispanic Mosaic	46	(3)
Immigration Reform	49	(1)
PART II Rumblings of Discontent, 1965-1980	50	(51)
Black and Hispanic Militancy	52	(19)
Black Power	53	(11)
Hispanic Power	64	(7)
Red Power	71	(16)
Termination	72	(1)
Treaty Rights	73	(3)
Natural Resources	76	(2)
Compensation and Land Recovery	78	(2)
Civil Rights and Tribal Sovereignty	80	(2)
Self Determination	82	(2)
The American Indian Movement	84	(3)
Affirmative Action, Busing, and the Disintegration of the Civil Rights Movement	87	(14)
Affirmative Action	88	(6)
Playground Battlefields	94	(7)
PART III Old Wounds, New Injuries, 1981-2000	101	(50)
The New Immigrants	104	(20)
Afro-Caribbeans	105	(3)
The Hispanic Kaleidoscope	108	(4)
The Asian Mosaic	112	(8)
Muslim Americans	120	(4)
The Revolt of White Ethnics	124	(15)
The Rising Tide of Racial Tensions	125	(3)
The Revival of White Ethnicity	128	(3)
Affirmative Action in Retreat	131	(8)
Ethnic America at the Turn of the Millennium	139	(12)
An Immigrant Culture	141	(3)
The Melting Pot	144	(7)
Bibliography	151	(4)
Index	155