The Ethnic Enigma
Title | The Ethnic Enigma PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Kivisto |
Publisher | Balch Institute Press |
Pages | 198 |
Release | 1989 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780944190036 |
This collection seeks to advance understanding of the shifting character and salience of ethnicity by abandoning the debate between the assimilationist and the cultural pluralist. The case studies presented define culture as a flexible tool, ethnicity as a complex and variable phenomenon, and social actors as knowledgeable agents who make their own history
The Enigma of Ethnicity
Title | The Enigma of Ethnicity PDF eBook |
Author | Wilbur Zelinsky |
Publisher | University of Iowa Press |
Pages | 337 |
Release | 2001-04 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1587293390 |
In The Enigma of Ethnicity Wilbur Zelinsky draws upon more than half a century of exploring the cultural and social geography of an ever-changing North America to become both biographer and critic of the recent concept of ethnicity. In this ambitious and encyclopedic work, he examines ethnicity's definition, evolution, significance, implications, and entanglements with other phenomena as well as the mysteries of ethnic identity and performance. Zelinsky begins by examining the ways in which “ethnic groups” and “ethnicity” have been defined; his own definitions then become the basis for the rest of his study. He next focuses on the concepts of heterolocalism—the possibility that an ethnic community can exist without being physically merged—and personal identity—the relatively recent idea that one can concoct one's own identity. In his final chapter, which is also his most provocative, he concentrates on the multifaceted phenomenon of multiculturalism and its relationship to ethnicity. Throughout he includes a close look at African Americans, Hispanics, and Jews as well as such less-studied groups as suburbanized Japanese, Cubans in Washington, Koreans, Lithuanian immigrants in Chicago, Estonians in New Jersey, Danish Americans in Seattle, and Finns. Reasonable, nonpolemical, and straightforward, Zelinsky's text is invaluable for readers wanting an in-depth overview of the literature on ethnicity in the United States as well as a well-thought-out understanding of the meanings and dynamics of ethnic groups, ethnicity, and multiculturalism.
The Enigma of Diversity
Title | The Enigma of Diversity PDF eBook |
Author | Ellen Berrey |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 361 |
Release | 2015-05-15 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 022624637X |
Diversity these days is a hallowed American value, widely shared and honored. That’s a remarkable change from the Civil Rights era—but does this public commitment to diversity constitute a civil rights victory? What does diversity mean in contemporary America, and what are the effects of efforts to support it? Ellen Berrey digs deep into those questions in The Enigma of Diversity. Drawing on six years of fieldwork and historical sources dating back to the 1950s and making extensive use of three case studies from widely varying arenas—housing redevelopment in Chicago’s Rogers Park neighborhood, affirmative action in the University of Michigan’s admissions program, and the workings of the human resources department at a Fortune 500 company—Berrey explores the complicated, contradictory, and even troubling meanings and uses of diversity as it is invoked by different groups for different, often symbolic ends. In each case, diversity affirms inclusiveness, especially in the most coveted jobs and colleges, yet it resists fundamental change in the practices and cultures that are the foundation of social inequality. Berrey shows how this has led racial progress itself to be reimagined, transformed from a legal fight for fundamental rights to a celebration of the competitive advantages afforded by cultural differences. Powerfully argued and surprising in its conclusions, The Enigma of Diversity reveals the true cost of the public embrace of diversity: the taming of demands for racial justice.
Balkan ethnic enigma
Title | Balkan ethnic enigma PDF eBook |
Author | Žarko V. Obradović |
Publisher | |
Pages | 375 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | Balkan Peninsula |
ISBN | 9788653101602 |
The Lincoln Enigma
Title | The Lincoln Enigma PDF eBook |
Author | Gabor Boritt |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 353 |
Release | 2001-02-08 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0198033028 |
In The Lincoln Enigma, Gabor Boritt invites renowned Lincoln scholars, and rising new voices, to take a look at much-debated aspects of Lincoln's life--including his possible gay relationships, his plan to send blacks back to Africa, and his high-handed treatment of the Constitution. Boritt explores Lincoln's proposals that looked to a lily-white America. Jean Baker marvels at Lincoln's loves and marriage. David Herbert Donald compares Lincoln and Jefferson Davis as Commanders-in-Chief. Douglas Wilson shows us the young Lincoln--not the strong leader of popular history, but a man who struggles to find his purpose. Gerald Prokopowicz searches for the military leader, William C. Harris for the peacemaker, and Robert Bruce meditates on Lincoln and death. In a final section Boritt and Harold Holzer offer a fascinating portfolio of Lincoln images in modern art. Acute and thought-provoking in their observations, this all-star cast of historians--including two Pulitzer and three Lincoln Prize winners--questions our assumptions of Lincoln, and provides a new vitality to our ongoing reflections on his life and legacy.
Ethnic Studies
Title | Ethnic Studies PDF eBook |
Author | Philip Q. Yang |
Publisher | SUNY Press |
Pages | 344 |
Release | 2000-04-13 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780791444801 |
Defines the field of ethnic studies and explores its methodologies.
The Creation of an Ethnic Identity
Title | The Creation of an Ethnic Identity PDF eBook |
Author | Blanck, Dag |
Publisher | SIU Press |
Pages | 288 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Immigrants |
ISBN | 9780809389513 |
"In his book, Dag Blanck analyzes how Swedish American identity was constructed, maintained, and changed in the Augustana Synod from 1860 to 1917. The author poses three fundamental questions: How did an ethnic identity develop in the Augustana synod? Of what did that ethnic identity consist? Why did that ethnic identity come into being?" "[summary]"--Provided by publisher