Multiculturalism in the United States A Comparative Guide to Acculturation and Ethnicity Revised and Expanded Edition

Subjects:

• Multicultural Studies » Multicultural Studies (General)

Reviews:

• The bibliographical essays that accompany all the chapters, whether they adhere to ethnographic, historical or cultural studies approaches, help ensure that editorial aims about understanding the diversity and similarities between various ethnic groups are fulfilled. This second edition of Multiculturalism provides scholars in ethnic studies and related fields with an excellent point of departure for further study. Overall, it is a valuable reference guide to multicultural America.
  —Journal of American Studies 2006
• [C]omprehensive in scope and contemporary in scholarship.
  —Catholic Library World June 2006
• This new edition is an excellent reference tool for high school and undergraduate students. A collection of engaging essays shows how changes in American society (such as wars, the rise in nativism, or the expansion of certain industries) affect immigration patterns, and how the immigrants have in turn influences the broader culture....[i]n-depth introduction.
  —Multicultural Review Fall 2005
• Twenty American academics, historians, and librarians contribute 18 chapters to a comparative reference text covering 17 of the major ethnic groups from Europe, Africa, Asia, and Latin American that have populated the U.S. over the past two centuries. The new edition has been revised throughout, and substantially expanded to include essays on seven groups not covered in the first edition: Arabs, Asian Indians, Dominicans, Filipinos, Haitians, Koreans, and Vietnamese....Academic but accessible to the general reader.
  —Reference & Research Book News August 2005
• [P]rovides a starting point for beginning students of race, immigration, or United States culture, in supplying succinct chapters on a sampling of the country's ethnic populations.
  —Ethnic & Racial Studies May 2006
• [S]hould be very helpful for teachers and AP classes in social studies.
  —Gale Reference for Students August 2005
• An outstanding college-level reference.
  —MBR Bookwatch July 2005
• Each of the essays is well documented and includes a very solid bibliographic essay of three to five pages. The final chapter is an extensive bibliographic essay on ethnicity and acculturation. The index is reasonably useful too. The essays will be sufficient for lower-level undergraduates; upper-level undergraduates and graduate students will find the bibliographic essays excellent springboards for further research. Recommended. All academic levels/libraries.
  —Choice 10/1/2005

Table of Contents:

• Introduction by John D. Buenker and Lorman A. Ratner
  African Americans by Cynthia Greggs Fleming
  American Indians by Vine Deloria, Jr.
  Arab-Americans by Gregory Orgalea
  Asian American Indians by Karen Leonard
  Chinese Americans by George Anthony Peffer
  Dominican-Americans by Silvio Torres-Saillant
  Filipino-Americans by Augusto Espiritu
  German-Americans by James M. Bergquist
  Haitian-Americans by Marc Prou
  Irish Americans by Lawrence J. McCaffrey
  Italian-Americans by Dominic Candeloro
  Jewish-Americans by Edward Shapiro
  Korean-Americans by Kyeyoung Park
  Mexican-Americans by Matt S. Meir
  Polish-Americans by Edward R. Kantowicz
  Scandinavian Americans by John Robert Christianson
  Vietnamese-Anericans by Hien Due Do
  Bibliographic Essay by John D. Buenker, Joseph Buenker, and Lorman A. Ratner

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