A Nation Divided: Diversity, Inequality, and Community in America

by Donna Dempster-McClain and Henry A. Walker

Book Overview

The United States will enter the twenty-first century with an increasingly diverse, unequal, and divided population. Longstanding tensions persist between ethnic groups, rich and poor, and immigrants and the native-born. New sources of strain involve sexual and gender minorities, those who possess alternate family forms, and white and nonwhite immigrants, as well as the widening gulf between rich and poor Americans.

A Nation Divided...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801437199
• ISBN13: 9780801437199
• Release Date: July 1999
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.4"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

The Burning Pot aka the U.S.A

A Nation Divided separates itself from much social science research that really is social science fiction. The editors have produced a significant, cutting-edge piece of work. As Lauderdale (following in the steps of Will Rogers) noted long ago, unfortunately the picture of the U.S. as a melting pot is unbridled, political rhetoric. The U.S. is a tossed-salad in good times and may become a buring pot in this century, unless toleration for diversity becomes respect for diversity. This book suggests that we must first understand longstanding tensions and their persistance or superficial political band-aids will continue to feed the fire.