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America's Banquet of Cultures: Harnessing Ethnicity, Race, and Immigration in the Twenty-First Century

America's Banquet of Cultures: Harnessing Ethnicity, Race, and Immigration in the Twenty-First Century

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General Racism & Ethnic StudiesGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0275975088
ISBN13: 9780275975081
Publisher: Praeger
Published: Jul 30 2001
Pages: 280
Weight: 0.97
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.18
Language: English

The melting pot is a myth, according to Fernandez, who shows that the United States is and always has been a banquet of cultures. As he argues, the best way to deal with the more than 20 million new immigrants since 1965 is to accept, recognize, and eagerly explore the differences among the American people.

Fernandez seeks to forge a positive national consensus based on two building blocks. First, the nation's many ethnic groups can be a powerful source of unprecedented economic, artistic, and scientific creativity. Secondly, the nation's many ethnic groups offer a way to erase the black/white dichotomy which, masks the shared injustices of millions of European, Asian, African, Native, and Latino Americans. This is a provocative analysis of how we arrived at our current ethnic and racial dilemmas and what can be done to move beyond them. Scholars and students of American immigration and social policy as well as concerned citizens will find the book equally rewarding.

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