| Description |
xx, 258 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-246) and index. |
| Contents |
Immigrants, Serfs, and Refugees: Who Are They? Where Did They Come From? -- Old Blood, New Blood, Weak Blood: The Nature of U.S. Immigration Laws -- Empires and Serfs: Migrant Labor in the United States -- Refugees and Other Aliens -- What Shall We Do with Our America? -- How Is Society Possible? -- Changing Colors -- Ethnic Extremes -- Social Class and Social Conflict -- Compare and Contrast: Great Britain, Israel, India, and the United States -- The Twenty-first Century. |
| Summary |
"The author seeks to forge a positive national consensus based on two building blocks. First, the nation's many ethnic groups can be a powerful source of unprecedented economic, artistic, educational, and scientific creativity. Second, this wealth of cultural opportunity offers a way to erase the black/white dichotomy that, as it poisons everyday life, masks the shared injustices of millions of European, Asian, African, Native and Latino Americans. Fernandez offers a provocative analysis of how we arrived at our current ethnic and racial dilemmas and what can be done to move beyond them. Concerned citizens, scholars and students of American immigration, ethnic studies and social policy will find this book insightful and thought provoking."--Jacket. |
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United States -- Ethnic relations.
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United States -- Race relations.
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United States -- Emigration and immigration.
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Minorities -- United States -- Social conditions.
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Immigrants -- United States -- Social conditions.
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United States -- Ethnic relations -- Forecasting.
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United States -- Race relations -- Forecasting.
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United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Forecasting.
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Emigration and immigration. (OCoLC)fst00908690
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Emigration and immigration -- Forecasting.
(OCoLC)fst01352894
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Ethnic relations. (OCoLC)fst00916005
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Ethnic relations -- Forecasting.
(OCoLC)fst00916009
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Immigrants -- Social conditions.
(OCoLC)fst00967782
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Minorities -- Social conditions.
(OCoLC)fst01023228
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Race relations. (OCoLC)fst01086509
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Race relations -- Forecasting.
(OCoLC)fst01354166
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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Etnische betrekkingen.
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Ethnische Beziehungen (DE-588)4176973-9
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Ethnische Identität (DE-588)4153096-2
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Multikulturelle Gesellschaft (DE-588)4214151-5
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United States.
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United States (DE-588)4078704-7
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United States -- Race relations.
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United States -- Ethnic relations.
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United States -- Emigration and immigration.
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United States -- Race relations -- Forecasting.
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United States -- Ethnic relations -- Forecasting.
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United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Forecasting.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Fernandez, Ronald. America's banquet of cultures. Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2000 (OCoLC)606295080 |
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Online version: Fernandez, Ronald. America's banquet of cultures. Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2000 (OCoLC)608083057 |
| ISBN |
027595871X (alk. paper) |
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9780275958718 (alk. paper) |
