1st Edition

Mainstream and Margins Jews, Blacks and Other Americans

By Peter I. Rose Copyright 1983
    256 Pages
    by Routledge

    256 Pages
    by Routledge

    This volume of commentaries on racial and ethnic relations is a sociological assessment of a changing society and a personal statement about many of the most pressing racial issues since the 1954 Brown-Supreme court decision. From the perspective of humanistic sociology, Peter Rose shows that sociology need not be a cold, artless science and argues that sociological enterprise should treat future as well as past and present issues.

    Roots and Branches: An Introduction; I: The Marginality of a Model Minority; 1: The Ghetto and Beyond: Reflections on Jewish Life in America; 2: Tensions and Trends: American Jews in the 1980s; 3: Country Cousins: Small-Town Jews and Their Neighbors; 4: City Lights: The Children of Small-Town Jews; II: Red, White, Blue—and Black; 5: The Black Experience: Issues and Images; 6: Race and Education in New York: The Challenge Moves North; 7: Social Physics: The Resurgence of Ethnicity; 8: Blacks and Jews: The Strained Alliance; III: On Ethnic Studies and Other Matters; 9: On the Subject of Race: Thinking, Writing, and Teaching about Racial and Ethnic Relations; 10: Problems in Conveying the Meaning of Ethnicity: The Insider/Outsider Debate; 11: It’s Almost 1984: Sociological Perspectives on American Society

    Biography

    Peter I. Rose