LEADER 05007oam 2200697 a 450 001 9910818692103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a979-84-00-60991-6 010 $a0-313-00248-7 024 7 $a10.5040/9798400609916 035 $a(CKB)111056485426980 035 $a(OCoLC)191933110 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10005670 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000102557 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11126784 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000102557 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10049289 035 $a(PQKB)10312355 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3000524 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10005670 035 $a(OCoLC)55141537 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3000524 035 $a(OCoLC)43076876 035 $a(DLC)BP9798400609916BC 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111056485426980 100 $a19991203e20002024 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAmerica's banquet of cultures $eharnessing ethnicity, race, and immigration in the twenty-first century /$fRonald Fernandez 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aWestport, Conn. :$cPraeger,$d2000. 210 2$aLondon :$cBloomsbury Publishing,$d2024 215 $a1 online resource (279 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-275-97508-8 311 $a0-275-95871-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [245]-246) and index. 327 $aCover -- AMERICA'S BANQUET OF CULTURES -- Contents -- Preface: Four All-Americans -- DIVERSITY INCARNATE1 -- A WHOOP, WHOOP INDIAN -- SUM OF THE PARTS -- ETHNIC DESPITE HIMSELF -- WHAT SHALL WE DO WITH OUR AMERICA?2 -- NOTES -- Acknowledgments -- PART ONE IMMIGRANTS, SERFS, AND REFUGEES: WHO ARE THEY? WHERE DID THEY COME FROM? -- 1 Old Blood, New Blood, Weak Blood: The Nature of U.S. Immigration Laws -- WHO'S RESPONSIBLE? -- CHICKENS COMING HOME TO ROOST -- National Origins Law of 1924 -- McCarran-Walter Act of 1952 -- Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 -- Doorway to the World -- Final Passage -- Results of the New Immigration Law -- Full Circle: Diversity Immigrants -- Full, Full Circle -- NOTES -- 2 Empires and Serfs: Migrant Labor in the United States -- GOLD AND SILVER PAYROLLS -- PLANES, PARACHUTES, AND PEOPLE -- NETWORKS -- The First Americans -- Serfdom in America -- Economic Slavery* -- THE MIDCENTURY WATERSHED -- Permanent Non-Permanent Residents -- Swat the Hyphen -- Postscript: The Puerto Ricans, Citizens by Statute -- NOTES -- 3 Refugees and Other Aliens -- UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES -- THE ACTION STORY -- CHAOS IN INDOCHINA -- Refugee Act of 1980 -- 129,000 Entrants -- The Central American Exodus -- The Lautenberg Amendment -- Same Thing, Only Different -- Good Questions, No Answers -- NOTES -- PART TWO WHAT SHALL WE DO WITH OUR AMERICA? -- 4 How Is Society Possible? -- RELEVANT ASSUMPTIONS2 -- HOW IS SOCIETY POSSIBLE?9 -- Cultural Clout -- Senses of Self29 -- NOTES -- 5 Changing Colors -- QUESTIONING THE UNQUESTIONABLE -- THE CONCEPT OF RACE -- WE NEED TO MAKE WHITE SEEM STRANGE30 -- INVITATION TO A BANQUET -- AFRICAN AMERICANS: A UNIQUE ETHNICITY -- NOTES -- 6 Ethnic Extremes -- TWENTY-TWO CARAT GOLD -- MARK MCGWIRE AND ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE -- PREACHERS PRESENT ARMS19 -- ETHNIC OPTIONS32 -- MAKING IT IN AMERICA73. 327 $aROOM TO MANEUVER -- NOTES -- 7 Social Class and Social flict -- RURAL AMERICA -- TRUST AND THE WEALTH OF A NATION -- NATURE AND LOGIC OF CAPITALISM18 -- PUNCTUATED EQUILIBRIUM -- ETHNIC NICHES, AFRICAN AMERICANS, AND CHICANOS -- THE COLORS OF CHANGE -- NOTES -- PART THREE WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE? -- 8 Compare and Contrast: Great Britain, Israel, India, and the United States -- ANCESTRAL ROOTS -- ROYAL HYPOCRITES -- RECONSIDERED ROOTS -- ISRAEL AND THE LAW OF RETURN -- A New Nation -- OPERATION MOSES -- SEVEN HUNDRED THOUSAND RUSSIANS -- THE UNITED STATES AND ISRAEL -- DEBATES OF A DEVELOPED NATION -- NOTES -- 9 The Twenty-first Century -- LEZA -- OUR INHERITANCE -- POLICY ISSUES -- Role of the Federal Government -- Affirmative Action -- Undocumented Migrants -- CREATIVE CROSSROADS OF THE WORLD -- NOTES -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author. 606 $aMinorities$zUnited States$xSocial conditions 606 $aImmigrants$zUnited States$xSocial conditions 607 $aUnited States$xEthnic relations 607 $aUnited States$xRace relations 607 $aUnited States$xEmigration and immigration 607 $aUnited States$xEthnic relations$xForecasting 607 $aUnited States$xRace relations$xForecasting 607 $aUnited States$xEmigration and immigration$xForecasting 615 0$aMinorities$xSocial conditions. 615 0$aImmigrants$xSocial conditions. 676 $a305.8/00973 700 $aFernandez$b Ronald$01691483 801 0$bDLC 801 1$bDLC 801 2$bDLC 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910818692103321 996 $aAmerica's banquet of cultures$94067859 997 $aUNINA