The Ethnic Myth: Race, Ethnicity, and Class in America
- ISBN-10
- 080704153X
- ISBN-13
- 9780807041536
- Category
- Social Science
- Pages
- 336
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2001-01-16
- Publisher
- Beacon Press
- Author
- Stephen Steinberg
Description
You hold in your hand a dangerous book. Because it rejects as it clarifies most of the current wisdom on race, ethnicity, and immigration in the United States, The Ethnic Myth has the force of a scholarly bomb. --from the Introduction by Eric William Lott In this classic work, sociologist Stephen Steinberg rejects the prevailing view that cultural values and ethnic traits are the primary determinants of the economic destiny of racial and ethnic groups in America. He argues that locality, class conflict, selective migration, and other historical and economic factors play a far larger role not only in producing inequalities but in maintaining them as well, thus providing an insightful explanation into why some groups are successful in their pursuit of the American dream and others are not.
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