[BOOK][B] Roots too: White ethnic revival in post-civil rights America

MF Jacobson - 2006 - degruyter.com
MF Jacobson
2006degruyter.com
Introduction: Beyond Hansen’s Law Page 1 Introduction: Beyond Hansen’s Law The notion
that the intense and unprecedented mixture of ethnic and religious groups in American life was
soon to blend into a homogenous end product has outlived its usefulness, and also its
credibility. . . . The point about the melting pot . . . is that it did not happen. —Nathan Glazer and
Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Beyond the Melting Pot (1963) The leader of an antiracism workshop
in the 1990s once noted a disquieting inclination on the part of the group’s white participants to …
The notion that the intense and unprecedented mixture of ethnic and religious groups in American life was soon to blend into a homogenous end product has outlived its usefulness, and also its credibility.... The point about the melting pot... is that it did not happen.
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