The ethnic myth : race, ethnicity, and class in America / Stephen Steinberg.

Author/creator Steinberg, Stephen
Format Book
EditionUpdated and expanded ed.
Publication InfoBoston : Beacon Press, 1989.
Descriptionxiv, 317 pages ; 21 cm
Supplemental ContentPublisher description
Subjects

Contents 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.
Local noteLittle-473003--305131068640.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Issued in other formOnline version: Steinberg, Stephen. Ethnic myth. Updated and expanded ed. Boston : Beacon Press, 1989
LCCN 89042587
ISBN0807041513
ISBN9780807041512

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Joyner General Stacks E184.A1 S794 1989 ✔ Available Place Hold