Legacy of Hate
Subtitle: A Short History of Ethnic, Religious, and Racial Prejudice in America
Edition: Subsequent edition
Publisher: M.E. Sharpe
Published: October 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 325
ISBN-13: 9780765604064
Subjects: Ethnography; Racism & racial discrimination; Social history; Sociology; History: World; Race And Ethnic Relations; History; Racism; USA; Minority Studies - Race Relations; Discrimination & Racism; Discrimination; United States; Americas (North Central South West Indies); Hate; Prejudices
Description: "Legacy of Hate traces the development of American minority group relations, beginning with the arrival of white Europeans and moving through the eighteenth and industrially expanding nineteenth centuries; the explosion of immigration and its attendant problems in the twentieth century; and a final chapter exploring how prejudice (racial, religious, and ethnic) his been institutionalized in the educational systems and laws.".

"Throughout this book, Perlmutter focuses on where and why various groups encountered prejudice and discrimination and how their experiences have shaped the society we live in and how we think about one another."--BOOK JACKET.