America Beyond Black and White : How Immigrants and Fusions are Helping Us Overcome the Racial Divide Hardback
by Ronald Fernandez
Part of the Contemporary Political and Social Issues series
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America Beyond Black and White is a call for a new way of imagining race in America.
For the first time in U.S. history, the black-white dichotomy that has historically defined race and ethnicity is being challenged, not by a small minority, but by the fastest-growing and arguably most vocal segment of the increasingly diverse American population - Mexicans, Chinese, Japanese, Koreans, Indians, Arabs, and many more - who are breaking down and recreating the very definitions of race.
Drawing on interviews with hundreds of Americans who don't fit conventional black/white categories, the author invites us to empathize with these ""doubles"" and to understand why they may represent our best chance to throw off the strictures of the black/white dichotomy.
The revolution is already underway, as newcomers and mixed-race ""fusions"" refuse to engage in the prevailing Anglo-Protestant culture.
Americans face two choices: understand why these individuals think as they do, or face a future that continues to define us by what divides us rather than by what unites us.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:304 pages
- Publisher:The University of Michigan Press
- Publication Date:30/08/2007
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- ISBN:9780472116096
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:304 pages
- Publisher:The University of Michigan Press
- Publication Date:30/08/2007
- Category:
- ISBN:9780472116096