Missions Resources - Bibliography
The American Kaleidoscope: Race, Ethnicity and the Civic Culture
Authors: Fuchs, Lawrence H.
ISBN: 0-8195-6250-5
Publisher: Hanover, New Hampshire: Wesleyan University Press,1990
Type of cover: Soft Cover
Summary: The American Kaleidoscope is a big book, both in size and stature. It is a history of immigrants and minorities in the United States.
Fuchs divides Americans in two: Those who came here looking for something better, and those who either got dragged here against their will, or had their land taken from them. American society ranks members of the former group by class, regardless of length of tenure on this soil. Members of the latter group, by contrast, and ranked by an impenetrable caste designation.
This big book can be dull, but it is thorough and visionary. I recommend it for people making a serious investigation of race and ethnicity in the United States. Fuchs is not always right, but nowhere else will you find this depth of analysis and this breadth of vantage point.
-Paul Grant
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