The Ethnic Myth: Race, Ethnicity, and Class in America, Parte4Beacon Press, 2001 M01 16 - 336 páginas You hold in your hand a dangerous book. Because it rejects as it clarifies most of the current wisdom on race, ethnicity, and immigration in the United States, The Ethnic Myth has the force of a scholarly bomb. --from the Introduction by Eric William Lott In this classic work, sociologist Stephen Steinberg rejects the prevailing view that cultural values and ethnic traits are the primary determinants of the economic destiny of racial and ethnic groups in America. He argues that locality, class conflict, selective migration, and other historical and economic factors play a far larger role not only in producing inequalities but in maintaining them as well, thus providing an insightful explanation into why some groups are successful in their pursuit of the American dream and others are not. |
Contenido
The Ignominious Origins of Ethnic Pluralism in America | 5 |
The Ethnic Crisis in American Society | 44 |
SOCIAL CLASS AND ETHNIC MYTHS | 75 |
The New Darwinism | 77 |
The Myth of Ethnic Success The Jewish Horatio Alger Story | 82 |
The Culture of Poverty Reconsidered | 106 |
Education and Ethnic Mobility The Myth of Jewish Intellectualism and Catholic AntiIntellectualism | 128 |
Why Irish Became Domestics and Italians and Jews Did Not | 151 |
The Iron Law of Ethnicity Revised | 169 |
The Reconstruction of Black Servitude after the Civil War | 173 |
Racial and Ethnic Conflict in the Twentieth Century | 201 |
The Jewish Problem in American Higher Education | 222 |
Dilemmas and Contradictions of Ethnic Pluralism in America | 253 |
Ethnic Heroes and Racial Villains in American Social Science | 263 |
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Acknowledgments | |
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The Ethnic Myth: Race, Ethnicity, and Class in America, Parte4 Stephen Steinberg Sin vista previa disponible - 2001 |
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