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

by Ronald Fernandez

Overview

Explores the "melting pot" as myth, and argues for new ways to harness the creative powers of the millions of new immigrants.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780313002489
Publisher:	ABC-CLIO, Incorporated
Publication date:	06/30/2000
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	480 KB

About the Author

RONALD FERNANDEZ is Professor of Sociology at Central Connecticut State University. A widely recognized authority on Caribbean and Hispanic-American issues, his most recent publications include Puerto Rico Past and Present: An Encyclopedia, with Serafín Mendez Mendez and Gail Cueto (Greenwood Press, 1998) and The Disenchanted Island: Puerto Rico and the United States in the Twentieth Century (Praeger, 1996).

Table of Contents

Preface: Four All-Americans
Immigrants, Serfs and Refugees: Who are They? Where Did They Come From?
Old Blood, New Blood, Weak Blood: The Nature of U.S. Immigration Laws
Empires and Serfs: Migrant Labor in the United States
Refugees and Other Aliens
What Shall We Do with Our America?
How Is Society Possible?
Changing Colors
Ethnic Extremes
Social Class and Social Conflict
Where Do We Go From Here?
Compare and Contrast: Great Britain, Israel, India, and the United States
The Twenty-first Century
Bibliography
Index