America beyond black and white: how immigrants and fusions are helping us overcome the racial divide
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1. Verfasser: Fernandez, Ronald (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Ann Arbor, Mich. University of Michigan Press c2007
Schriftenreihe:Contemporary political and social issues
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Beschreibung:"A Caravan book.". - Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 274-276) and index
A historical opportunity : immigrants, fusions, and the reconfiguration of American culture -- Dead end : the white/black dichotomy -- Murals and Mexicans : Chicanos in the United States -- Asian Americans : non-European and nonwhite -- The other others : Indians and Arabs -- The Caribbean : Puerto Ricans, West Indians, Cubans -- The question marks : mixed-race Americans -- A heart transplant -- Epilogue : our fusion family
A call for a new way of imagining race in America. For the first time in U.S. history, the black-white dichotomy that has historically defined race and ethnicity is being challenged, not by a small minority, but by the fastest-growing and arguably most vocal segment of the increasingly diverse American population 'Mexicans, Chinese, Japanese, Koreans, Indians, Arabs, and many more' who are breaking down and recreating the very definitions of race. Drawing on interviews with hundreds of Americans who don't fit conventional black/white categories, the author invites us to empathize with these 'doubles' and to understand why they may represent our best chance to throw off the strictures of the black/white dichotomy. Ronald Fernandez is Professor of Sociology in the Criminal Justice Department at Central Connecticut State University
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (viii, 285 p.)
ISBN:0472021753
9780472021758

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