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Author McDonald, Jason (Jason J.)

Title American ethnic history : themes and perspectives / Jason McDonald.

Publication Info. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2007]
©2007

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 260 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-252) and indexes.
Contents The origins and nature of ethnic identity -- The making of American ethnic diversity -- Ethnic adaptation -- Ethnicity and the American creed -- Ethnic incorporation -- Ethnic collective action -- Confronting challenges to ethnic allegiance.
Summary This book offers a thematic introduction to American ethnic history which provides an overview of key historiographical debates. It provides a new framework for examining and comprehending the varied historical experiences of ethnic groups in the United States. Thematically organized and comparative in outlook, it explores how historians have grappled with questions that bear upon a key aspect of the American experience: ethnicity. How did the United States come to have such an ethnically diverse population? What contribution, if any, has this ethnic diversity made to the shaping of American culture and institutions? How easily and at what levels have ethnic and racial minorities been incorporated, if at all, into the social and economic structures of the United States? Has incorporation been a uniform process or has it varied from group to group? This is both an authoritative introduction to the field of American ethnic history and a valuable reference tool for secondary scholoars.
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Subject Ethnic groups -- United States -- History.
Ethnic groups.
United States.
History.
Ethnicity -- United States -- History.
Ethnicity.
United States -- Ethnic relations -- History.
Ethnic relations.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: McDonald, Jason (Jason J.). American ethnic history. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2007 0748616330 0748616349 (OCoLC)78989202
ISBN 9780748628636 (electronic book)
0748628630 (electronic book)
1280866500
9781280866500
9780748616343 (paperback)
0748616349 (paperback)
9780748616336 (hardback)
0748616330 (hardback)