America's banquet of cultures [[electronic resource] ] : harnessing ethnicity, race, and immigration in the twenty-first century / / Ronald Fernandez

• Autore: Fernandez Ronald
• Pubblicazione: Westport, Conn., : Praeger, 2000
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (279 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.8/00973
• Soggetto topico: Minorities - United States - Social conditions; Immigrants - United States - Social conditions
• Soggetto geografico: United States Ethnic relations; United States Race relations; United States Emigration and immigration; United States Ethnic relations Forecasting; United States Race relations Forecasting; United States Emigration and immigration Forecasting
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-246) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- 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. ; ROOM 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: America's banquet of cultures
• ISBN: 0-313-00248-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910818692103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II