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Using the latest available materials, expert contributors explore the principal racial, religious, and ethnic groups of the United States.

Table of Contents

Preface by Elliott Robert Barkan Introduction: America--A Nation of Peoples by Elliott Robert Barkan African Americans by Juliet E. K. Walker American Indians by Alice B. Kehoe British (English, Welsh, Scots, Scotch-Irish) by William E. Van Vugt Central and South Americans by Carlos B. Cordova and Raquel Pinderhughes Chinese by Judy Yung Cubans by Guillermo J. Grenier and Lisandro Pérez Dutch by Suzanne M. Sinke East Europeans by Thaddeus C. Radzilowski and John Radzilowski Filipinos by Jon Cruz French and French-Speaking Immigrants, French Canadians and Cajuns by Bruno Ramirez and Francois Weil Germans and German-Speaking Immigrants by James M. Bergquist Greeks by George A. Kourvetaris Hawaiians by Pauline Nawahineokala'i King Irish by Timothy J. Meagher Italians by Paola A. Sensi-Isolani Japanese by Eileen H. Tamura Jews by Edward S. Shapiro Koreans by Kwang Chung Kim Mexicans by David G. Gutiérrez Middle Easterners and North Africans by Linda S. Walbridge Mormons by Steven Epperson Poles by Dominic A. Pacyga Puerto Ricans by Carmen Teresa Whalen Scandinavians by David C. Mauk South Asians by Bruce La Brack Southeast Asians by Steven J. Gold West Indians/Caribbeans by Philip Kasinitz and Milton Vickerman Appendix Selected Bibliography Index

About the Author

ELLIOTT ROBERT BARKAN is Professor of History and Ethnic Studies at California State University, San Bernardino, where his teaching and research focus primarily on comparative and interdisciplinary approaches to American ethnicity. Since 1985, he has been Book Review Editor of the Journal of American Ethnic History, and he is currently a member of the Executive Board of the Immigration History Society. His previous books include Asian and Pacific Islander Migration to the United States: A Model of New Global Patterns (Greenwood, 1992), and And Still They Come: Immigrants and American Society, 1920 to the 1990s (1996).

Reviews

…the depth and analysis here is superb. Older students, professors, sociologists, historians, and people interested in their own and others' heritage will find this book fascinating. Highly recommended for public and academic libraries.
*Library Journal*

The essays are well written, informative, packed with detail, and interesting….As a broad overview with up-to-date coverage of statistical data, comtemporary events and bibliography, ^IA Nation of Peoples^R is excellent.
*Reference & User Services Quarterly*

[This] is a required source for coverage of the past 20 years in American ethnic history. Barkan, the editor of this much needed, up-to-date volume, is well qualified…[and] has gathered an oustanding list of contributors…. This work is highly recommended for public and college libraries.
*Multicultural Review*

…an up-to-date reference work that provides succint, thoughtful, and well-organized overviews of America's major ethnic groups….The essays are packed full of information and important demographic data….they are all clearly written. ^IA Nation of Peoples^R is, in sum, an excellent reference work that will be useful to students and to scholars as well.
*Journal of American Ethnic History*

…this is a well-concieved, carefully constructed, and quite useful book.
*ARBA*