Marketing the American Creed Abroad: Diasporas in the U.S. and Their Homelands

by Yossi Shain

Book Overview

This book examines the interaction of domestic and foreign issues in the lives of ethnic Americans. Arguing that the damaging impact of ethnic influences on U.S. foreign affairs has been overstated and misrepresented, Shain brings a new dimension to the public debate on multiculturalism by exploring its transnational aspects. Ethnic groups, despite residual attachments to their homelands, do not betray American political values and ideals, but, on...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 052164531X
• ISBN13: 9780521645317
• Release Date: March 1999
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 314 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"