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Preface<br >Whether or not written history is, as Charles Beard once<br >said, "an act of faith," it most assuredly is an act of<br >choice. To make sense of American histoly during the<br >forty years from 1938 to 1978, I have chosen to focus<br >on patterns of class, race, and ethnicity. I have done so<br >partly out of personal interest but primarily out of a<br >conviction that developments in those areas have been<br >of central importance in the lives of the American peo-<br >ple. Since I am concerned, moreover, with why and how<br >change has occurred, I begin by evaluating class, racial,<br >and ethnic patterns as they stood in the late 193os;<br >proceed by examining the impact on them of the Second<br >World War, the anticommunist impulse, suburbaniza-<br >tion, social reform, and the war in Vietnam; and con-<br >clude by analyzing those patterns as they appeared in<br >the late ~97os. Where I discuss political, economic, con-<br >stitutional, social, and cultural issues it is through the<br >three-way prism of class, race, and ethnicity.<br > I do not mean to give the impression that hard-and-<br >fast lines can be drawn between class, racial, and ethnic<br >groups. No such clear distinction is possible, for the<br >relationships among the three are subtle and complex.<br >If all Americans can somehow be ranked according to<br >class, most can also be defined in ethnic or racial terms.<br >Some can be viewed on any or all levels: a Japanese<br >American businessman, for example, simultaneously be-<br >longs to a particular social class, racial minority, and<br >etlmic comnmnity. Ahhough I treat immigrants primar-<br >ily as members of ethnic groups and blacks primarily as<br >
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One Nation Divisible: Class, Race, and Ethnicity in the United States Since 1930 在線電子書 pdf 下載 txt下載 epub 下載 mobi 下載 2024