The American Kaleidoscope: Race, Ethnicity, and the Civic Culture
Description
Winner of the John Hope Franklin Prize (1991)Winner of the Theodore Saloutos Award from the Immigration History Society (1993)Do recent changes in American law and politics mean that our national motto -- e pluribus unum -- is at last becoming a reality? Lawrence H. Fuchs searches for answers to this question by examining the historical patterns of American ethnicity and the ways in which a national political culture has evolved to accommodate ethnic diversity. Fuchs looks first at white European immigrants, showing how most of them and especially their children became part of a unifying po...
ISBN(s)
9780819562500
