American Kaleidoscope Race, Ethnicity, and the Civic Culture

Name: American Kaleidoscope Race, Ethnicity, and the Civic Culture
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ISBN: 9780819562500

ISBN-10: 0819562505

ISBN-13: 9780819562500

Edition: N/A

Authors: Lawrence H. Fuchs

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Do recent changes in American law and politics mean that our national motto -- e pluribus unum -- is at last becoming a reality? Lawrence H. Fuchs searches for answers to this question by examining the historical patterns of American ethnicity and the ways in which a national political culture has evolved to accommodate ethnic diversity. Fuchs looks first at white European immigrants, showing how most of them and especially their children became part of a unifying political culture. He also describes the ways in which systems of coercive pluralism kept persons of color from fully participating in the civic culture. He documents the dismantling of those systems and the emergence of a more…

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List price: $39.95
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Publication date: 6/1/1991
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 646
Size: 1.00" wide x 1.00" long x 1.55" tall
Weight: 2.090
Language: English



Acknowledgements



The Civic Culture and Voluntary Pluralism



Outside the Civic Culture: The Coercive Pluralisms



The Outsiders Move in: The Triumph of the Civic Culture



The American Kaleidoscope: The Ethnic Landscape, 1970-1989



Pluralism, Public Policy , and the Civic Culture, 1970-1989


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