Title: Ethnic encounters : identities and contexts /
Authors: Hicks, George L.; Leis, Philip E.,; Leis, Philip E.,
Publisher: Duxbury Press,
Year: 1977
Subjects: Ethnicity.; Ethnic groups.; Social interaction.; Cultural pluralism.
Contents: Introduction: problems in the study of ethnicity / George L. Hicks -- Ethnic groups are made, not born: the Haitian immigrant and American politics / Nina Glick Schiller -- East Indian adaptations on St. Vincent / Linda Stone -- Language and interethnic relationships in a Portuguese colony / Deirdre A. Meintel Machado -- Separate but similar: adaptation by two American Indian groups / George L. Hicks -- Separate but superior: Japanese in Bolivia / Stephen I. Thompson -- Transplanted technicians: Americans on an Ecuadorian sugar plantation / Norris G. Lang -- Main Street and Church Road: ethnic relations in a New England town / Richard M. Swiderski -- French peasants in the Caribbean: St. Barthélemy / Warren T. Morrill -- The melting pot and ethnic revitalization / Marilyn A. Trueblood -- Ethnicity and entrepreneurs: Portuguese immigrants in a Canadian city / Caroline Bieler Brettell -- Brokers and the social ecology of minority groups / Colin E. De'Ath and Peter Padbury -- Caste, ethnicity, and change in West Bengal / Eva Friedlander -- Ethnicity and political allegiance in an Italian Communist quartiere / David I. Kertzer -- Ethnicity and the Fourth of July Committee / Philip E. Leis.