Mainstream and margins revisited
Subtitle: sixty years of commentary on minorities in America
By: Peter Isaac Rose
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 345
ISBN-13: 9780203786697; 9781351507752
Subjects: Race relations; Ethnic relations; Race relations in literature; Ethnic relations in literature; Minorities; Immigrants; Refugees; Relations raciales; Relations interethniques; Relations raciales dans la littérature; Relations interethniques dans la littérature; Réfugiés
Description: "When his book Mainstream and Margins was published in 1983, Peter Rose's writings on American minorities and those who studied them painted a vivid picture of what life was like in America for Jews, blacks, and other minorities in the United States. Now, a third of a century later, he revisits the topic, with sixteen new chapters, in addition to seven from the original edition. Newer content covers immigration and American refugee policy; reexamines the term "model minority," first used to describe Jews, but now applied to Asian Americans; and the resurgence of nativism both in regard to new migrants from Latin America and to the growth of Islamophobia since the 9/11 attacks. Rose also reassesses what is still one of the most controversial documents about race and class ever written, Daniel Patrick Moynihan's "The Negro Family: A Case for National Action." Rose writes about other authors who have addressed many of the principal concerns of this book, ranging from novelists Tom Wolfe and Harper Lee to sociologists David Riesman, Robin M. Williams, Jr., and William Julius Wilson. Historical tensions between Jews and African Americans and debates about "liberal" vs. "corporate" pluralism seen from the perspective of both whites and non-whites are also discussed in this seminal volume by a master on the subject."--Provided by publisher
Notes: Originally published 2017 by Transaction Publishers.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part Prologue; title: chapter 1 2Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen3: Some Reflections on the Insidifer-Outsidifer Debate (1978); title: part Part I. The Marginality of a Model Minority; title: chapter 2 The Ghetto and Beyond: Reflections on Jewish Life in America (1968); title: chapter 3 Country Cousins: 2Ambassadors to the Gentiles3 (1957, 1961, 1977, 1993); title: chapter 4 Going to the Mountains: Seeking Respite in 2The Jewish Alps3 (1990); title: chapter 5 Admission to the Club: 2The Mathew Principle3 and College Enrollment (2006); title: part Part II. Black and White in American Society; title: chapter 6 The Black Experience: Issues and Images (1969); title: chapter 7 Social Physics: The Resurgence of Ethnicity (1974); title: chapter 8 Blacks and Jews: The Strained Alliance (1981, 1994); title: chapter 9 The Real McCoy? A Novel Look at Racial Tensions in New York (1998); title: chapter 10 Killing the Messenger: The Black Family and the Politics of Race (2011); title: chapter 11 Facts, Fiction, and Literary Ethnography: The Controversy over Harper Lee's New/Old Novel (2015); title: part Part III. On Strangers at the Gate; title: chapter 12 Long Night's Journey: The Ordeal of the Indochinese Refugees (1982, 2003); title: chapter 13 The Harbor Masters: American Politics and Refugee Policy (1984); title: chapter 14 From Pariahs to Paragons: The Downs and Ups of Americans from Asia (1985); title: chapter 15 The Persistence of (an) Ethnicity: Resistance to Americano Dreams (2005); title: chapter 16 Making a diference: William Allan Neilson and the Rescue of Refugee Intellectuals (2005); title: part Part IV. Perspectives on a Stratified Society; title: chapter 17 Culture and Character: David Riesman Reconsidifered (1982); title: chapter 18 It's Almost 1984: Three Sociological Perspectives on Social Issues in American Society (1983); title: chapter 19 White America, Circa 2010: Two Views (2011, 2012); title: chapter 20 Hillsborough Boy: Robin M. Williams, Jr. and His Legacy (1999); title: chapter 21 Studying 2The Truly Disadvantaged3: A Portrait of William Julius Wilson (2015); title: part Coda; title: chapter 22 The Threat of the 2Other3: Old Challenges, New Realities (2016).