Format:
1 online resource (xii, 345 pages)
ISBN:
9780203786697
,
9781351507745
Content:
part Prologue -- chapter 1 “Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen”: Some Reflections on the Insider-Outsider Debate (1978) -- part Part I. The Marginality of a Model Minority -- chapter 2 The Ghetto and Beyond: Reflections on Jewish Life in America (1968) -- chapter 3 Country Cousins: “Ambassadors to the Gentiles” (1957, 1961, 1977, 1993) -- chapter 4 Going to the Mountains: Seeking Respite in “The Jewish Alps” (1990) -- chapter 5 Admission to the Club: “The Mathew Principle” and College Enrollment (2006) -- part Part II. Black and White in American Society -- chapter 6 The Black Experience: Issues and Images (1969) -- chapter 7 Social Physics: The Resurgence of Ethnicity (1974) -- chapter 8 Blacks and Jews: The Strained Alliance (1981, 1994) -- chapter 9 The Real McCoy? A Novel Look at Racial Tensions in New York (1998) -- chapter 10 Killing the Messenger: The Black Family and the Politics of Race (2011) -- chapter 11 Facts, Fiction, and Literary Ethnography: The Controversy over Harper Lee’s New/Old Novel (2015) -- part Part III. On Strangers at the Gate -- chapter 12 Long Night’s Journey: The Ordeal of the Indochinese Refugees (1982, 2003) -- chapter 13 The Harbor Masters: American Politics and Refugee Policy (1984) -- chapter 14 From Pariahs to Paragons: The Downs and Ups of Americans from Asia (1985) -- chapter 15 The Persistence of (an) Ethnicity: Resistance to Americano Dreams (2005) -- chapter 16 Making a derence: William Allan Neilson and the Rescue of Refugee Intellectuals (2005) -- part Part IV. Perspectives on a Stratified Society -- chapter 17 Culture and Character: David Riesman Reconsidered (1982) -- chapter 18 It’s Almost 1984: Three Sociological Perspectives on Social Issues in American Society (1983) -- chapter 19 White America, Circa 2010: Two Views (2011, 2012) -- chapter 20 Hillsborough Boy: Robin M. Williams, Jr. and His Legacy (1999) -- chapter 21 Studying “The Truly Disadvantaged”: A Portrait of William Julius Wilson (2015) -- part Coda -- chapter 22 The Threat of the “Other”: Old Challenges, New Realities (2016).
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781138527447
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781412864299
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781138527447
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9780203786697
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781351507769
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