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Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups
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Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups
Author: Stephan Thernstrom
Publisher: Belknap Press
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1114
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This comprehensive work details the specifics on over 100 ethnic groups and presents comparative or thematic treatments of another 30 topics related to immigration and identity maintenance.
Publisher: Belknap Press
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1114
Book Description
This comprehensive work details the specifics on over 100 ethnic groups and presents comparative or thematic treatments of another 30 topics related to immigration and identity maintenance.
Dimension of Ethnicity
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The Politics of Ethnicity
Author: Michael Walzer
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674687530
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 160
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Examines how ethnicity affects voting and party loyalty and looks at leadership among minority groups.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674687530
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Examines how ethnicity affects voting and party loyalty and looks at leadership among minority groups.
Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity, and Society
Author: Richard T. Schaefer
Publisher: SAGE
ISBN: 1412926947
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1753
Book Description
This encyclopedia offers a comprehensive look at the roles race and ethnicity play in society and in our daily lives. Over 100 racial and ethnic groups are described, with additional thematic essays offering insight into broad topics that cut across group boundaries and which impact on society.
Publisher: SAGE
ISBN: 1412926947
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1753
Book Description
This encyclopedia offers a comprehensive look at the roles race and ethnicity play in society and in our daily lives. Over 100 racial and ethnic groups are described, with additional thematic essays offering insight into broad topics that cut across group boundaries and which impact on society.
Ethnic Groups of the Americas
Author: James B. Minahan
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1610691644
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 429
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Intended to help students explore ethnic identity—one of the most important issues of the 21st century—this concise, one-stop reference presents rigorously researched content on the national groups and ethnicities of North America, Central America, South America, and the Caribbean. Combining up-to-date information with extensive historical and cultural background, the encyclopedia covers approximately 150 groups arranged alphabetically. Each engaging entry offers a short introduction detailing names, population estimates, language, and religion. This is followed by a history of the group through the turn of the 19th century, with background on societal organization and culture and expanded information on language and religious beliefs. The last section of each entry discusses the group in the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries, including information on its present situation. Readers will also learn about demographic trends and major population centers, parallels with other groups, typical ways of life, and relations with neighbors. Major events and notable challenges are documented, as are key figures who played a significant political or cultural role in the group's history. Each entry also provides a list for further reading and research.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1610691644
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 429
Book Description
Intended to help students explore ethnic identity—one of the most important issues of the 21st century—this concise, one-stop reference presents rigorously researched content on the national groups and ethnicities of North America, Central America, South America, and the Caribbean. Combining up-to-date information with extensive historical and cultural background, the encyclopedia covers approximately 150 groups arranged alphabetically. Each engaging entry offers a short introduction detailing names, population estimates, language, and religion. This is followed by a history of the group through the turn of the 19th century, with background on societal organization and culture and expanded information on language and religious beliefs. The last section of each entry discusses the group in the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries, including information on its present situation. Readers will also learn about demographic trends and major population centers, parallels with other groups, typical ways of life, and relations with neighbors. Major events and notable challenges are documented, as are key figures who played a significant political or cultural role in the group's history. Each entry also provides a list for further reading and research.
Concepts of Ethnicity
Author: William Petersen
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674157262
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
The monumental Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups is the most authoritative single source available on the history, culture, and distinctive characteristics of ethnic groups in the United States. The Dimensions of Ethnicity series is designed to make this landmark scholarship available to everyone in a series of handy paperbound student editions. Selections in this series will include outstanding articles that illuminate the social dynamics of a pluralistic nation or masterfully summarize the experience of key groups. Written by the best-qualified scholars in each field, Dimensions of Ethnicity titles will reflect the complex interplay between assimilation and pluralism that is a central theme of the American experience. The tightening and loosening of ethnic identity under changing definitions of "Americanism" is emphasized in this volume.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674157262
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
The monumental Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups is the most authoritative single source available on the history, culture, and distinctive characteristics of ethnic groups in the United States. The Dimensions of Ethnicity series is designed to make this landmark scholarship available to everyone in a series of handy paperbound student editions. Selections in this series will include outstanding articles that illuminate the social dynamics of a pluralistic nation or masterfully summarize the experience of key groups. Written by the best-qualified scholars in each field, Dimensions of Ethnicity titles will reflect the complex interplay between assimilation and pluralism that is a central theme of the American experience. The tightening and loosening of ethnic identity under changing definitions of "Americanism" is emphasized in this volume.
The American Indians
Author: Edward Holland Spicer
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674024762
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
The monumental Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups is the most authoritative single source available on the history, culture, and distinctive characteristics of ethnic groups in the United States. The Dimensions of Ethnicity series is designed to make this landmark scholarship available to everyone in a series of handy paperbound student editions. Selections in this series will include outstanding articles that illuminate the social dynamics of a pluralistic nation or masterfully summarize the experience of key groups. Written by the best-qualified scholars in each field, Dimensions of Ethnicity titles reflect the complex interplay between assimilation and pluralism that is a central theme of the American experience. Here is a notably compact account of the diversity and complex cultures of Native Americans, with a special section on the history of federal policy.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674024762
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
The monumental Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups is the most authoritative single source available on the history, culture, and distinctive characteristics of ethnic groups in the United States. The Dimensions of Ethnicity series is designed to make this landmark scholarship available to everyone in a series of handy paperbound student editions. Selections in this series will include outstanding articles that illuminate the social dynamics of a pluralistic nation or masterfully summarize the experience of key groups. Written by the best-qualified scholars in each field, Dimensions of Ethnicity titles reflect the complex interplay between assimilation and pluralism that is a central theme of the American experience. Here is a notably compact account of the diversity and complex cultures of Native Americans, with a special section on the history of federal policy.
Immigration
Author: Richard A. Easterlin
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674444393
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Essays discuss the economic and social characteristics of immigrants, settlement patterns, U.S. immigration policy, and naturalization.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674444393
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Essays discuss the economic and social characteristics of immigrants, settlement patterns, U.S. immigration policy, and naturalization.
Immigrant America
Author: Timothy Walch
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136515321
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
This new volume of original essays focuses on the presence of European ethnic culture in American society since 1830. Among the topics explored in Immigrant America are the alienation and assimilation of immigrants; the immigrant home and family as a haven of ethnicity; religion, education and employment as agents of acculturation; and the contours of ethnic community in American society.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136515321
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
This new volume of original essays focuses on the presence of European ethnic culture in American society since 1830. Among the topics explored in Immigrant America are the alienation and assimilation of immigrants; the immigrant home and family as a haven of ethnicity; religion, education and employment as agents of acculturation; and the contours of ethnic community in American society.