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The American Kaleidoscope : Race, Ethnicity, and the Civic Culture by Lawrence H. Fuchs; [with a new introduction by the author] is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The American Kaleidoscope : Race, Ethnicity, and the Civic Culture about?
A leading authority's panoramic history compares the experiences of immigrant-ethnic groups, African-Americans, and Native Americans to each other and in relation to the national political culture. 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 political culture. He also describes the ways in which systems of coercive pluralism kept persons of color from fully participating in the civic culture. He documents the dismantling of those systems and the emergence of a more inclusive and stronger civic culture in which voluntary pluralism flourishes. In comparing past patterns of ethnicity in America with those of today, Fuchs finds reasons for optimis
Who reads The American Kaleidoscope : Race, Ethnicity, and the Civic Culture?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Lawrence H. Fuchs; [with a new introduction by the author]
- Publisher
- Published by University Press of New England [for] Wesleyan University Press
- Published
- 1990
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780819572448
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Science, Sociology, History
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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