Debating Diversity

The Twenty-first Century: We Will All Be Minorities I. Patterns: Ethnicity versus Race Nathan Glazer: The Emergence of an American Ethnic Pattern Ronald Takaki: Reflections on Racial Patterns in America II. National Identity: The Master Narrative of American History and Its Discontents Frederick Jackson Turner: The Significance of the Frontier in American History Ronald Takaki: The Significance of the Frontier in Native American History Samuel P. Huntington: The Clash of Civilizations: In the World and the U.S. Elizabeth Martínez: Reinventing "America": Call for a New National Identity III. Class: Below the Deck of the Pequod Oscar and Mary F. Handlin: Origins of the Southern Labor System Ronald Takaki: Why the Switch to Slavery: Fears of Rebellious White Workers W.E.B. DuBois: The Paradoxical Tragedy of White and Black Laborers in the South Harvard Sitkoff: Organize Labor and Civil Rights Tomás Almaguer: Racial Domination and Class Conflict in Capitalist Agriculture: The Oxnard Sugar Beet Workers' Strike of 1903 Grace Chang: Immigrants and Workfare Workers IV. Diversities Within: Gender and Other Differences Susan A. Glenn: A Bridge to College for Jewish Sons: Daughters in the Sweatshops Lourdes Miranda King: Double Discrimination for Puerto Rican Women Bonnie Thorton Dill: Race, Class, and Gender: Prospects for an All-Inclusive Sisterhood Alice Y. Hom: Stories from the Homefront: Perspectives of Asian American Parents with Lesbian Daughters and Gay Sons Cynthia L. Nakashima: Voices from the Movement: Approaches to Multiraciality V. Policies: Strategies and Solutions Irving Kristol: The Negro Today Is Like the Immigrant Yesterday William Julius Wilson: The Black Community: Race and Class Robert J. Samuelson: The Limits of Immigration Gregory Defreitas: Fear of Foreigners: Immigrants as Scapegoats for Domestic Woes James Q. Wilson: What to Do About Crime Elliott Currie: What to Do and Not To Do About Crime Pete Wilson: Ending Affirmative Action Chang-Lin Tien: Defending Affirmative Action Nathan Glazer: American Blacks, It Turned Out, Are Not Like the Immigrants of Yesterday VI. Prospects: E Pluribus Unum? Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.: The Return to the Melting Pot Ronald Takaki: A Different Mirror: Multicultural Ties That Bind America