Debating Diversity: Clashing Perspectives on Race and Ethnicity in America
In the nineteenth century Herman Melville wrote, "America was settled by peoples of all nations....You cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world. We are not a narrow tribe." At the beginning of the twenty-first century, America is more ethnically diverse than ever before. Will we fear this expanding diversity as the disuniting of America, or will we embrace a more inclusive re-definition of our national identity?
As the nation's preeminent scholar of multicultural studies, Ronald Takaki invites us to address this question by "debating diversity." The overarching theme of his new anthology is the clash of perspectives over the master narrative of American history—the powerful but mistaken story that this country was settled by European immigrants and that Americans are white.
The collection opens with the lively intellectual exchange between Nathan Glazer and Ronald Takaki on ethnicity versus race; it then turns to the contrasting interpretations of the frontier by Frederick Jackson Turner and Takaki. Other debates include: Samuel P. Huntington and Elizabeth Martínez on the diversity of civilizations; Irving Kristol and William Julius Wilson on inner-city blacks; Robert J. Samuelson and Gregory Defreitas on Mexican immigration; Governor Pete Wilson and Chancellor Chang-lin Tien on affirmative action; and James Q. Wilson and Elliott Currie on crime and punishment. The anthology closes with a debate between Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., and Takaki on whether we as Americans should pursue a vision of our society as a melting pot or as a multicultural democracy. Embedded in all of the essays is the question: "Originating from different shores, can we become one people of the United States of America?" An ideal text for diversity courses in Ethnic Studies, Political Science, American Studies, History, Sociology, Anthropology, and Education, Debating Diversity will stir students to think critically about who we have been and who we are as Americans.
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Debating Diversity: Clashing Perspectives on Race and Ethnicity in America
In the nineteenth century Herman Melville wrote, "America was settled by peoples of all nations....You cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world. We are not a narrow tribe." At the beginning of the twenty-first century, America is more ethnically diverse than ever before. Will we fear this expanding diversity as the disuniting of America, or will we embrace a more inclusive re-definition of our national identity?
As the nation's preeminent scholar of multicultural studies, Ronald Takaki invites us to address this question by "debating diversity." The overarching theme of his new anthology is the clash of perspectives over the master narrative of American history—the powerful but mistaken story that this country was settled by European immigrants and that Americans are white.
The collection opens with the lively intellectual exchange between Nathan Glazer and Ronald Takaki on ethnicity versus race; it then turns to the contrasting interpretations of the frontier by Frederick Jackson Turner and Takaki. Other debates include: Samuel P. Huntington and Elizabeth Martínez on the diversity of civilizations; Irving Kristol and William Julius Wilson on inner-city blacks; Robert J. Samuelson and Gregory Defreitas on Mexican immigration; Governor Pete Wilson and Chancellor Chang-lin Tien on affirmative action; and James Q. Wilson and Elliott Currie on crime and punishment. The anthology closes with a debate between Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., and Takaki on whether we as Americans should pursue a vision of our society as a melting pot or as a multicultural democracy. Embedded in all of the essays is the question: "Originating from different shores, can we become one people of the United States of America?" An ideal text for diversity courses in Ethnic Studies, Political Science, American Studies, History, Sociology, Anthropology, and Education, Debating Diversity will stir students to think critically about who we have been and who we are as Americans.
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Debating Diversity: Clashing Perspectives on Race and Ethnicity in America

Debating Diversity: Clashing Perspectives on Race and Ethnicity in America

Debating Diversity: Clashing Perspectives on Race and Ethnicity in America

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In the nineteenth century Herman Melville wrote, "America was settled by peoples of all nations....You cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world. We are not a narrow tribe." At the beginning of the twenty-first century, America is more ethnically diverse than ever before. Will we fear this expanding diversity as the disuniting of America, or will we embrace a more inclusive re-definition of our national identity?
As the nation's preeminent scholar of multicultural studies, Ronald Takaki invites us to address this question by "debating diversity." The overarching theme of his new anthology is the clash of perspectives over the master narrative of American history—the powerful but mistaken story that this country was settled by European immigrants and that Americans are white.
The collection opens with the lively intellectual exchange between Nathan Glazer and Ronald Takaki on ethnicity versus race; it then turns to the contrasting interpretations of the frontier by Frederick Jackson Turner and Takaki. Other debates include: Samuel P. Huntington and Elizabeth Martínez on the diversity of civilizations; Irving Kristol and William Julius Wilson on inner-city blacks; Robert J. Samuelson and Gregory Defreitas on Mexican immigration; Governor Pete Wilson and Chancellor Chang-lin Tien on affirmative action; and James Q. Wilson and Elliott Currie on crime and punishment. The anthology closes with a debate between Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., and Takaki on whether we as Americans should pursue a vision of our society as a melting pot or as a multicultural democracy. Embedded in all of the essays is the question: "Originating from different shores, can we become one people of the United States of America?" An ideal text for diversity courses in Ethnic Studies, Political Science, American Studies, History, Sociology, Anthropology, and Education, Debating Diversity will stir students to think critically about who we have been and who we are as Americans.

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ISBN-13: 9780195146516
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 06/13/2002
Edition description: REV
Pages: 272
Product dimensions: 6.56(w) x 9.18(h) x 0.52(d)

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University of California, Berkeley

Table of Contents

The Twenty-first Century: We Will All Be MinoritiesI. Patterns: Ethnicity versus RaceThe Emergence of an American Ethnic Pattern, Nathan GlazerReflections on Racial Patterns in America, Ronald TakakiII. National Identity: The Master Narrative of American History and Its DiscontentsThe Significance of the Frontier in American History, Frederick Jackson TurnerThe Significance of the Frontier in Native American History, Ronald TakakiThe Clash of Civilizations: In the World and the U.S., Samuel P. HuntingtonReinventing "America": Call for a New National Identity, Elizabeth MartínezIII. Class: Below the Deck of the PequodOrigins of the Southern Labor System, Oscar and Mary F. HandlinWhy the Switch to Slavery: Fears of Rebellious White Workers, Ronald TakakiThe Paradoxical Tragedy of White and Black Laborers in the South, W.E.B. DuBoisOrganize Labor and Civil Rights, Harvard SitkoffRacial Domination and Class Conflict in Capitalist Agriculture: The Oxnard Sugar Beet Workers' Strike of 1903, Tomás AlmaguerImmigrants and Workfare Workers, Grace ChangIV. Diversities Within: Gender and Other DifferencesA Bridge to College for Jewish Sons: Daughters in the Sweatshops, Susan A. GlennDouble Discrimination for Puerto Rican Women, Lourdes Miranda KingRace, Class, and Gender: Prospects for an All-Inclusive Sisterhood, Bonnie Thorton DillStories from the Homefront: Perspectives of Asian American Parents with Lesbian Daughters and Gay Sons, Alice Y. HomVoices from the Movement: Approaches to Multiraciality, Cynthia L. NakashimaV. Policies: Strategies and SolutionsThe Negro Today Is Like the Immigrant Yesterday, Irving KristolThe Black Community: Race and Class, William Julius WilsonThe Limits of Immigration, Robert J. SamuelsonFear of Foreigners: Immigrants as Scapegoats for Domestic Woes, Gregory DefreitasWhat to Do About Crime, James Q. WilsonWhat to Do and Not To Do About Crime, Elliott CurrieEnding Affirmative Action, Pete WilsonDefending Affirmative Action, Chang-Lin TienAmerican Blacks, It Turned Out, Are Not Like the Immigrants of Yesterday, Nathan GlazerVI. Prospects: E Pluribus Unum?The Return to the Melting Pot, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.A Different Mirror: Multicultural Ties That Bind America, Ronald Takaki
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