Legacy of Hate: A Short History of Ethnic, Religious and Racial Prejudice in America

Legacy of Hate: A Short History of Ethnic, Religious and Racial Prejudice in America
ISBN-10
1317466225
ISBN-13
9781317466222
Series
Legacy of Hate
Category
History
Pages
344
Language
English
Published
2015-07-17
Publisher
Routledge
Author
Philip Perlmutter

Description

For all its foundation on the principles of religious freedom and human equality, American history contains numerous examples of bigotry and persecution of minorities. Now, author Philip Perlmutter lays out the history of prejudice in America in a brief, compact, and readable volume. Perlmutter begins with the arrival of white Europeans, moves through the eighteenth and industrially expanding nineteenth centuries; the explosion of immigration and its attendant problems in the twentieth century; and a fifth chapter explores how prejudice (racial, religious, and ethnic) has been institutionalized in the educational systems and laws. His final chapter covers the future of minority progress.

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