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9780819192219

The Politics of Diversity in the United States Positive Dreams and Pyrrhic Victories

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  • ISBN13:

    9780819192219

  • ISBN10:

    081919221X

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1993-10-04
  • Publisher: UPA
  • Purchase Benefits
List Price: $81.00

Summary

This book is predicated upon the belief that professionals, opinion leaders, and ordinary citizens will require a new literacy-ethnic literacy-to be successful in the 21st century in the United States. Immigration, questions concerning gender and ethnicity, have not only shaped our past, and direct our present, but will pattern our future. The Politics of Diversity in the United Statesis both a personal statement and a scholarly attempt to grapple with the questions of race and gender in the United States historically and in contemporary usage. It challenges dominant thinking on race and gender.

Table of Contents

Dedication
Preface
Acknowledgements
United States Political Culture: A "City on A Hill", A Downtown Ghetto or Both?p. 1
"Old" World Realities and "New" World Dreams: Hopeful and Tragicp. 9
Immigration and Migration: Political Culture, Geographic Realities, Spatial and Psychological Demandsp. 19
Creating the Category of Minority: Perceptual Hedges to Maintain the Puritan Idealp. 29
The Politics of the Family: Maintaining the Lockean Lockstep on the American Dreamp. 35
The Politics of the Workplace: Upward Mobility and the One-Rung Laddersp. 41
Barrio, Ghetto and Enclave: The Neighborhood as Political Refuge and Wastelandp. 49
Keep Your Eyes On The Prize, Move On: Whose Eyes, Whose Prize, Whose America: The Politics of Ethnicity on the Eve of the Twenty-First Centuryp. 57
Bibliographyp. 65
Author Biographical Sketchp. 68
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