The Politics of Race and Ethnicity in the United States: Americanization, De-Americanization, and Racialized Ethnic Groups

✍ Scribed by Sherrow O. Pinder

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 258
• Edition: First Edition
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book examines and analyzes Americanization, De-Americanization, and racialized ethnic groups in America. It shows that America’s cultural homogeneity, which is based on “whiteness,” has important consequences for racialized ethnic groups in America. The question, then, of who is an American becomes overriding. Although racialized ethnic groups remain unassimilated into the dominant culture, the recognition and celebration of the non-dominant cultures are important for multiculturalism. However, non-dominant cultures are tied to cultural otherness. Cultural otherness is looked upon as Un-Americanness. For this reason, there is a need to move beyond multiculturalism. “Postmulticulturalism,” then, would be the new possibility.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 10
Introduction: The Brevity of the Argument......Page 14
1 Conceptual Framework......Page 26
2 Whiteness: The Definitive Conceptualization of an American Identity......Page 52
3 The Specter of Whiteness......Page 80
4 The Quandary of Multiculturalism in America......Page 108
5 Postmulticulturalism......Page 136
Conclusion: Reflections......Page 164
Notes......Page 176
References......Page 224
B......Page 250
C......Page 251
F......Page 252
H......Page 253
L......Page 254
N......Page 255
R......Page 256
U......Page 257
Z......Page 258