The American Kaleidoscope: Race, Ethnicity, and the Civic Culture

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Lawrence H. Fuchs, Meyer and Walter Jaffee Professor ofAmerican Civilization & Politics at Brandeis University, was appointed by President Carter and the Congress as executive director of the Select Commission on Immigration and Refugee Policy. The Commission 's 1981 report became the basis for the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, the first major reform of U.S. immigration policy since 1965. Fuchs frequently has testified before the House and Senate on immigration and refugee policy. He is the author ofFamily Matters, American Ethnic Politics, Those PeculiarAmericans: The Peace Corps andAmericanNational Character, John F. Kennedy and American Catholicism, Hawaii Pono: A Social History, and The Political Behavior ofAmerican Jews. He is also the originator ofa four-volume high school text, Black in WhiteAmerica: The Strugglefor Identity and Power. A graduate ofNew York University (B.A. 1950) and Harvard University (Ph.D. 1955), Fuchs has taught at Brandeis since 1952. He was director ofthe Peace Corps in the Philippines from 1961 to 1963. His home is in Weston, Massachusetts. ABOUT THE BOOK The American Kaleidoscope was composed on the Mergenthaler 202 in Galliard, a contemporary rendering of a classic typeface prepared for Mergenthaler in 1978 by the British type designer Matthew Carter. The book was composed by Brevis Press of Bethany, Connecticut , and designed and produced by Kachergis Book Design of Pittsboro, North Carolina. Wesleyan University Press, 1990. ,!7IA8B9-fgcfaa! ...