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America's banquet of cultures : harnessing ethnicity, race, and immigration in the twenty-first century
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America's banquet of cultures : harnessing ethnicity, race, and immigration in the twenty-first century

Author: Ronald Fernandez
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2000.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"The author seeks to forge a positive national consensus based on two building blocks. First, the nation's many ethnic groups can be a powerful source of unprecedented economic, artistic, educational, and scientific creativity. Second, this wealth of cultural opportunity offers a way to erase the black/white dichotomy that, as it poisons everyday life, masks the shared injustices of millions of European, Asian,  Read more...
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Fernandez, Ronald.
America's banquet of cultures.
Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2000
(OCoLC)606295080
Online version:
Fernandez, Ronald.
America's banquet of cultures.
Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2000
(OCoLC)608083057
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Ronald Fernandez
ISBN: 027595871X 9780275958718
OCLC Number: 43076876
Description: xx, 258 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Immigrants, Serfs, and Refugees: Who Are They? Where Did They Come From? --
Old Blood, New Blood, Weak Blood: The Nature of U.S. Immigration Laws --
Empires and Serfs: Migrant Labor in the United States --
Refugees and Other Aliens --
What Shall We Do with Our America? --
How Is Society Possible? --
Changing Colors --
Ethnic Extremes --
Social Class and Social Conflict --
Compare and Contrast: Great Britain, Israel, India, and the United States --
The Twenty-first Century.
Responsibility: Ronald Fernandez.

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In this text, Ronald Fernandez argues that the American "melting pot" is a myth, and shows that the USA is and always has been a banquet of cultures. He demonstrates that the best way to deal with  Read more...

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schema:reviewBody""The author seeks to forge a positive national consensus based on two building blocks. First, the nation's many ethnic groups can be a powerful source of unprecedented economic, artistic, educational, and scientific creativity. Second, this wealth of cultural opportunity offers a way to erase the black/white dichotomy that, as it poisons everyday life, masks the shared injustices of millions of European, Asian, African, Native and Latino Americans. Fernandez offers a provocative analysis of how we arrived at our current ethnic and racial dilemmas and what can be done to move beyond them. Concerned citizens, scholars and students of American immigration, ethnic studies and social policy will find this book insightful and thought provoking."--BOOK JACKET."
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