America beyond black and white : how immigrants and fusions are helping us overcome the racial divide / Ronald Fernandez.

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Fernandez, Ronald

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TextSeries: Contemporary political and social issuesPublisher: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2007Description: 1 online resourceContent type:

text

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9780472021758
0472021753

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: America beyond black and whiteDDC classification:

305.800973 22

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E184.A1

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Contents:

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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Read by David Henry.Summary: 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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Read by David Henry.

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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