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

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ISBN-10: 0195330536

ISBN-13: 9780195330533

Edition: 2nd 2005

Authors: Peter Kivisto, Wendy Ng

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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 is designed 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…    
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List price: $169.99
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/1/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 430
Size: 10.12" wide x 7.20" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 2.046
Language: English

Peter Kivisto is Richard A. Swanson Professor of Social Thought and Chair of Sociology, Anthropology and Social Welfare at Augustana College and Finland Distinguished Professor at the University of Turku. His current research involves a collaborative project on multiculturalism with colleagues in Finland. His interests include immigration, social integration, citizenship, and religion. Among his recent books are Key Ideas in Sociology (2011), Illuminating Social Life (2011); Beyond a Border: The Causes and Consequences of Contemporary Immigration (2010, with Thomas Faist); Citizenship: Discourse, Theory and Transnational Prospects (2007, with Thomas Faist); and Intersecting Inequalities…    

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