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Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-08-01 - Publisher: Basic Books
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Language: en
Pages: 312
Pages: 312
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-02-28 - Publisher: Basic Books
Sympathetic with the new ethnic consciousness, Hollinger argues that the conventional liberal toleration of all established ethnic groups no longer works becaus
Language: en
Pages: 510
Pages: 510
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-02-17 - Publisher: Harvard University Press
In the 1950s, America was seen as a vast melting pot in which white ethnic affiliations were on the wane and a common American identity was the norm. Yet by the
Language: en
Pages: 220
Pages: 220
Type: BOOK - Published: 1990-08-09 - Publisher: Univ of California Press
"Mary Waters' admirable study of Americans' ethnic choices produces a rich social-scientific yield. Its theoretical interest derives from the American irony tha
Language: en
Pages: 608
Pages: 608
Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-12-22 - Publisher: Univ of California Press
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