Perspectives on Race, Ethnicity, and Religion Identity Politics in America

Name: Perspectives on Race, Ethnicity, and Religion Identity Politics in America
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ISBN: 9780195381702

ISBN-10: 019538170X

ISBN-13: 9780195381702

Edition: 2010

Authors: Valerie Martinez-Ebers, Manochehr Dorraj

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Perspectives on Race, Ethnicity, and Religion: Identity Politics in America is an introductory anthology that examines the history, current issues, and dynamics of select minority groups in the United States. While other books on these topics usually confine their coverage to African Americans, Hispanics, Asians, Pacific Islanders, and American Indians, this work also looks at Jewish and Muslim Americans. Another unique feature of this book is that it puts the study of diversity and identity politics in a larger context, thus providing students with a broader perspective on these issues. Opening with an essay by the editors on change and continuity in the minority group experience, the…

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List price: $94.99
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/11/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 6.30" wide x 9.41" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

James M. Taggart is the Lewis Audenreid Professor of History and Archaeology at Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.Valerie Martinez-Ebers is Associate Professor at Texas Christian University and became the first Latina president of the Western Political Science Association.



Introduction



Change and Continuity in the Experiences of Racial, Ethnic and Religious Minorities in America




The Broader Context for Understanding Minority-Majority Relationships in the United States



Globalization and the American Nation




A World Between: Multiple Identities and the Challenges Faced by First Generation Immigrants




Immigration: Trends, Demographics, and Patterns of Political Incorporation




Bridging the Cultural Divide: Accommodating Religious Diversity




The History and Contemporary Issues and Experiences of Select Minority Groups



"Measured Sovereignty:" The Political Experiences of Indigenous Peoples as Nations and Individuals




Linked Fates, Disconnected Realities: The Post-Civil Rights African American Politics




The Influence of History on the Policy Positions and Partisanship of Hispanics in the United States




Model Minority or Perpetual Foreigner? The Political Experience of Asian Americans




Anti-Semitism and the Jewish-American Political Experience




Islamophobia, the Muslim Stereotype, and the Muslim-American Political Experience



Appendix


Editors' and Chapter Authors'


Biographies