Unmeltable Ethnics: Politics and Culture in American Life

This new, enlarged edition of an influential book—originally published in 1972 as The Rise of the Unmeltable Ethnics—extends the author's wise and generous view of ethnicity. Its aim "is to raise consciousness about a crucial part of the American experience: to involve each reader in self-inquiry. Who, after all, are you? What history brought you to where you are? Why are you different from others?" But the point of such inquiry is civility: "The new ethnic consciousness embodied in this bo...