American Identity and the Politics of Multiculturalism

by David O. Sears and Jack Citrin

Book Overview

The civil rights movement and immigration reform transformed American politics in the mid-1960s. Demographic diversity and identity politics raised the challenge of e pluribus unum anew, and multiculturalism emerged as a new ideological response to this dilemma. This book uses national public opinion data and public opinion data from Los Angeles to compare ethnic differences in patriotism and ethnic identity and ethnic differences in support for multicultural...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 052182883X
• ISBN13: 9780521828833
• Release Date: August 2014
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 354 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 9.1"