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x, 277 pages : 22 cm Defending the melting-pot theory against the ethnic pluralists who have come forth to debunk it since the early 1960s, Steinberg integrates existing criticism and summarizes the economic forces that shaped the development of America's ethnic groups. He explains the complexities of race, class and ethnicity in America Includes bibliographical references and index Introduction: The new ethnicity in historical perspective -- The ignominious origins of ethnic pluralism in America -- The ethnic crisis in American society -- The new Darwinism -- The myth of ethnic success : the Jewish Horatio Alger story -- The culture of poverty reconsidered -- Education and ethnic mobility : the myth of Jewish intellectualism and Catholic anti-intellectualism -- Why Irish became domestics and Italians and Jews did not -- The "iron law of ethnicity" revised -- The reconstruction of black servitude after the Civil War -- Racial and ethnic conflict in the twentieth century -- The "Jewish problem" in American higher education -- Dilemmas and contradictions of ethnic pluralism in America -- Epilogue: Ethnic heroes and racial villains in American social science

Author

Steinberg, Stephen

Publisher

New York: Atheneum

Published

1981

Language

EN

ISBN

9780689111518

Subjects

Sociology, History, Humanities

Rating

3.98 / 5 (107 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14