Includes bibliographical references (pages 274-276) and index.
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Read by David Henry.
CONTENTS NOTE
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A historical opportunity : immigrants, fusions, and the reconfiguration of American culture -- Dead end : the white/black dichotomy -- Murals and Mexicans : Chicanos in the United States -- Asian Americans : non-European and nonwhite -- The other others : Indians and Arabs -- The Caribbean : Puerto Ricans, West Indians, Cubans -- The question marks : mixed-race Americans -- A heart transplant -- Epilogue : our fusion family.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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A call for a new way of imagining race in America. For the first time in U.S. history, the black-white dichotomy that has historically defined race and ethnicity is being challenged, not by a small minority, but by the fastest-growing and arguably most vocal segment of the increasingly diverse American population 'Mexicans, Chinese, Japanese, Koreans, Indians, Arabs, and many more' who are breaking down and recreating the very definitions of race. Drawing on interviews with hundreds of Americans who don't fit conventional black/white categories, the author invites us to empathize with these 'doubles' and to understand why they may represent our best chance to throw off the strictures of the black/white dichotomy. Ronald Fernandez is Professor of Sociology in the Criminal Justice Department at Central Connecticut State University.
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Title
America beyond black and white.
International Standard Book Number
0472116096
PARALLEL TITLE PROPER
Parallel Title
How immigrants and fusions are helping us overcome the racial divide
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Assimilation (Sociology)-- United States.
Immigrants-- United States-- Social conditions.
Minorities-- United States-- Social conditions.
Racially mixed people-- United States-- Social conditions.
Assimilation (Sociology)
Emigration and immigration-- Social aspects.
Ethnic relations.
Immigrants-- Social conditions.
Minorities-- Social conditions.
Race relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Anthropology-- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE-- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Minority Studies.
GEOGRAPHICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
United States, Emigration and immigration, Social aspects.