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Ethnic Identity

The Transformation of White America

By: Richard D. Alba

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Ethnic Identity

The Transformation of White America

By: Richard D. Alba

Examines the implications of intermarriages between white Americans of differing ethnic backgrounds and looks at this new culture

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Yale University Press

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0300052219

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Blurring the Color Line

The New Chance for a More Integrated America

By: Richard Alba,Richard D Alba

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Blurring the Color Line

The New Chance for a More Integrated America

By: Richard Alba,Richard D Alba

Richard Alba argues that the social cleavages that separate Americans into distinct, unequal ethno-racial groups could narrow dramatically in the coming decades. In Blurring the Color Line, Alba explores a future in which socially mobile minorities could blur stark boundaries and gain much more control over the social expression of racial differences.

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Harvard University Press

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0674053486

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9780674053489

Remaking the American Mainstream

Assimilation and Contemporary Immigration

By: Richard D. Alba,Victor Nee

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Remaking the American Mainstream

Assimilation and Contemporary Immigration

By: Richard D. Alba,Victor Nee

In this age of multicultural democracy, the idea of assimilation--that the social distance separating immigrants and their children from the mainstream of American society closes over time--seems outdated and, in some forms, even offensive. But as Richard Alba and Victor Nee show in the first systematic treatment of assimilation since the mid-1960s, it continues to shape the immigrant experience, even though the geography of immigration has shifted from Europe to Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Institutional changes, from civil rights legislation to immigration law, have provided a more favorable environment for nonwhite immigrants and their children than in the past. Assimilation is still driven, in claim, by the decisions of immigrants and the second generation to improve their social and material circumstances in America. But they also show that immigrants, historically and today, have profoundly changed our mainstream society and culture in the process of becoming Americans. Surveying a variety of domains--language, socioeconomic attachments, residential patterns, and intermarriage--they demonstrate the continuing importance of assimilation in American life. And they predict that it will blur the boundaries among the major, racially defined populations, as nonwhites and Hispanics are increasingly incorporated into the mainstream.

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Harvard University Press

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0674020111

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9780674020115

The Battle against Anarchist Terrorism

An International History, 1878–1934

By: Richard Bach Jensen

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The Battle against Anarchist Terrorism

An International History, 1878–1934

By: Richard Bach Jensen

The first global history of the secret diplomatic and police campaign against anarchist terrorism from 1880 to the 1920s.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107034051

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9781107034051

Ethnic Music on Records

A Discography of Ethnic Recordings Produced in the United States, 1893-1942. Vol. 1: Western Europe

By: Richard K. Spottswood

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Ethnic Music on Records

A Discography of Ethnic Recordings Produced in the United States, 1893-1942. Vol. 1: Western Europe

By: Richard K. Spottswood

This impressive compilation offers a nearly complete listing of sound recordings made by American minority artists prior to mid-1942. Organized by national group or language, the seven-volume set cites primary and secondary titles, composers, participating artists, instrumentation, date and place of recording, master and release numbers, and reissues in all formats. Because of its clear arrangements and indexes, it will be a unique and valuable tool for music and ethnic historians, folklorists, and others.

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706

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University of Illinois Press

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0252017196

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9780252017193

Vasculitis in Clinical Practice

By: Richard A. Watts,David G. I. Scott,Chetan Mukhtyar

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Vasculitis in Clinical Practice

By: Richard A. Watts,David G. I. Scott,Chetan Mukhtyar

This book focuses on clinical presentation, diagnostic processes and current management of systematic vasculitis, and for this second edition the Editors have updated the treatment approach and nomenclature in line with current practice. Systemic vasculitides are a group of disorders which are of increasing importance. Many of these conditions are only rarely encountered by general physicians and often present significant diagnostic challenges. The Editors aim to provide easily accessible information in a pocket sized format. In doing so they hope to help both the generalist but also rheumatologists who only encounter these problems occasionally.

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Springer

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3319148710

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9783319148717

Blurring the Color Line

The New Chance for a More Integrated America

By: Richard Alba

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Blurring the Color Line

The New Chance for a More Integrated America

By: Richard Alba

Richard Alba argues that the social cleavages that separate Americans into distinct, unequal ethno-racial groups could narrow dramatically in the coming decades. During the mid-twentieth century, the dominant position of the United States in the postwar world economy led to a rapid expansion of education and labor opportunities. As a result of their newfound access to training and jobs, many ethnic and religious outsiders, among them Jews and Italians, finally gained full acceptance as members of the mainstream. Alba proposes that this large-scale assimilation of white ethnics was a result of Ònon-zero-sum mobility,Ó which he defines as the social ascent of members of disadvantaged groups that can take place without affecting the life chances of those who are already members of the established majority. Alba shows that non-zero-sum mobility could play out positively in the future as the baby-boom generation retires, opening up the higher rungs of the labor market. Because of the changing demography of the country, many fewer whites will be coming of age than will be retiring. Hence, the opportunity exists for members of other groups to move up. However, Alba cautions, this demographic shift will only benefit disadvantaged American minorities if they are provided with access to education and training. In Blurring the Color Line, Alba explores a future in which socially mobile minorities could blur stark boundaries and gain much more control over the social expression of racial differences.

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Harvard University Press

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0674064704

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Warrior, Courtier, Singer

Giulio Cesare Brancaccio and the Performance of Identity in the Late Renaissance

By: Richard Wistreich

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Giulio Cesare Brancaccio and the Performance of Identity in the Late Renaissance

By: Richard Wistreich

Giulio Cesare Brancaccio was a Neapolitan nobleman with long practical experience of military life, first in the service of Charles V and later as both soldier and courtier in France and then at the court of Alfonso II d'Este at Ferrara. He was also a virtuoso bass singer whose performances were praised by both Tasso and Guarini - he was even for a while the only male member of the famous Ferrarese court Concerto delle dame, who established a legendary reputation during the 1580s. Richard Wistreich examines Brancaccio's life in detail and from this it becomes possible to consider the mental and social world of a warrior and courtier with musical skills in a broader context. A wide-ranging study of bass singing in sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Italy provides a contextual basis from which to consider Brancaccio's reputation as a performer. Wistreich illustrates the use of music in the process of 'self-fashioning' and the role of performance of all kinds in the construction of male noble identity within court culture, including the nature and currency of honour, chivalric virtù and sixteenth-century notions of gender and virility in relation to musical performance. This fascinating examination of Brancaccio's social world significantly expands our understanding of noble culture in both France and Italy during the sixteenth century, and the place of music-making within it.

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Routledge

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1317000277

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9781317000273

Creating the New Right Ethnic in 1970s America

The Intersection of Anger and Nostalgia

By: Richard Moss

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Creating the New Right Ethnic in 1970s America

The Intersection of Anger and Nostalgia

By: Richard Moss

This work analyzes the "New Ethnicity" of the 1970s as a way of understanding America's political turn to the right in that decade. An upsurge of vocal ethnic consciousness among second-, third-, and fourth-generation Southern and Eastern Europeans, the New Ethnicity simultaneously challenged and emulated earlier identity movements such as Black Power. The movement was more complex than the historical memory of racist, reactionary white ethnic leaders suggests. The movement began with a significant grassroots effort to gain more social welfare assistance for "near poor" white ethnic neighborhoods and ease tensions between the working-class African Americans and whites who lived in close proximity to one another in urban neighborhoods. At the same time, a more militant strain of white ethnicity was created by urban leaders who sought conflict with minorities and liberals. The reassertion of ethnicity necessarily involved the invention of myths, symbols, and traditions, and this process actually served to retard the progressive strain of New Ethnicity and strengthen the position of reactionary leaders and New Right politicians who hoped to encourage racial discord and dismantle social welfare programs. Public intellectuals created a mythical white ethnic who shunned welfare, valued the family, and provided an antidote to liberal elitism and neighborhood breakdown. Corporations and publishers embraced this invented ethnic identity and codified it through consumption. Finally, politicians appropriated the rhetoric of the New Ethnicity while ignoring its demands. The image of hard-working, self-sufficient ethnics who took care of their own neighborhood problems became powerful currency in their effort to create racial division and dismantle New Deal and Great Society protections.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1611479363

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9781611479362

The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites

By: Richard Stillwell

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The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites

By: Richard Stillwell

Here are over 1,000 pages of authoritative information on the archaeology of Greek and Roman civilization. The sites discussed in the more than 2,800 entries are scattered from Britain to India and from the shores of the Black Sea to the coast of North Africa and up the Nile. They are located on sixteen area maps, keyed to the entries. The entries were written by 375 scholars from sixteen nations, many of whom have worked at the sites they describe. Until now our knowledge of the Classical period has been scattered in hundreds of sources dating from antiquity to our own times. This volume provides essential information on work accomplished, in progress, and still to be undertaken. Originally published in 1976. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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1400886589

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Book's by Richard D. Alba

Ethnic Identity

Ethnic Identity

Blurring the Color Line

Blurring the Color Line

Remaking the American Mainstream

Remaking the American Mainstream

The Battle against Anarchist Terrorism

The Battle against Anarchist Terrorism

Ethnic Music on Records

Ethnic Music on Records

Vasculitis in Clinical Practice

Vasculitis in Clinical Practice

Blurring the Color Line

Blurring the Color Line

Warrior, Courtier, Singer

Warrior, Courtier, Singer

Creating the New Right Ethnic in 1970s America

Creating the New Right Ethnic in 1970s America

The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites

The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites

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