Multiculturalism in the United States

Current Issues, Contemporary Voices

Peter Kivisto, Georganne Rundblad, Peter Kivisto, Georganne Rundblad

• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Year: 2000
• Print ISBN:
  9780761986485
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781452251745
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Sociology
• Index: Social Sciences

This reader focuses on the extremely current, important topic of racial and ethnic experiences in the United States today. Most of the essays were commissioned especially for this reader and have been prepared by some of the brightest voices in this cutting edge field. Instructors in search of a current, comprehensive multicultural reader will find this a valuable student resource whether it is the sole focus of their course or to be integrated into another content area.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• Preface
• Overview: Multicultural America in the Post-Civil Rights Era
• Part I - Racial Fault Lines
• Editors' Introduction–Part I
• Chapter 1 - Changes in White Racial Attitudes
• Chapter 2 - Racism Today: Continuity and Change in the Post-Civil Rights Era
• Chapter 3 - The New Face of Race: The Metamorphosis of Racism in the Post-Civil Rights Era United States
• Chapter 4 - White Racism: A Case Study from the Heartland
• Chapter 5 - Mongrel Monstrosities
• Chapter 6 - Caught in the Middle: Korean-African American Conflicts
• Chapter 7 - Urban Rioting in Los Angeles: A Comparison of 1965 with 1992
• Drawing Conclusions
• Part II - Representations of Race and the Politics of Identity
• Editors' Introduction–Part II
• Chapter 8 - Black Identity in the United States
• Chapter 9 - The Politics of Ethnic Authenticity: Building Native American Identities and Communities
• Chapter 10 - Race Pride, Mexican Americans, and the Alamo
• Chapter 11 - Narratives of Race and Culture in Transnational Adoption
• Chapter 12 - Television and the Politics of Racial Representation
• Chapter 13 - Race, Power, and Representation in Contemporary American Sport
• Chapter 14 - Zydeco Music and Race Relations in French Louisiana
• Drawing Conclusions
• Part III - African Americans since the 1960s: Gains, Losses, and Contested Social Policies
• Editors' Introduction–Part III
• Chapter 15 - Rich and Poor African Americans
• Chapter 16 - The Racial Income Gap: How Much is due to Bias?
• Chapter 17 - When Work Disappears: Societal Changes and Vulnerable Neighborhoods
• Chapter 18 - Documenting America: Racism, Realism, and Hoop Dreams
• Chapter 19 - Black Mobility in White Corporations: Up the Corporate Ladder but Out on a Limb
• Chapter 20 - The Black Church and the Twenty-First Century
• Chapter 21 - The Origins and Politics of Affirmative Action
• Chapter 22 - Affirmative Action and Liberal Capitulation
• Chapter 23 - Residential Segregation and Federal Housing Policy: A Comparative Analysis of Section 235 and Section 8
• Drawing Conclusions
• Part IV - New Immigrants and the Dilemmas of Adjustment
• Editors' Introduction–Part IV
• Chapter 24 - Should Immigrants Assimilate?
• Chapter 25 - Who Gets the "Lousy" Jobs?
• Chapter 26 - Immigrant Life on the Margins: Descent into Disappointment
• Chapter 27 - Barrios in Transition
• Chapter 28 - The First Suburban Chinatown: The Remaking of Monterey Park, California
• Chapter 29 - "Destroying a Marriage to Save a Family": Shifting Filipino American Gender Relations
• Chapter 30 - Stanislaus can't Polka: New Polish Immigrants in Established Polish American Communities
• Chapter 31 - Israeli Americans
• Chapter 32 - Social Citizenship for Whom? Young Turks in Germany and Mexican Americans in the United States
• Drawing Conclusions
• Part V - What is Multicultural America?
• Editors' Introduction–Part V
• Chapter 33 - We are All Multiculturalists Now
• Chapter 34 - Benign Multiculturalism
• Chapter 35 - Ecumenical America: Global Culture and the American Cosmos
• Chapter 36 - Multiculturalism: Battleground or Meeting Ground?
• Drawing Conclusions
• Sources and Permissions
• Index