Beyond the Melting Pot

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Nathan Glazer and Dániel Patrick Moynihan The point about the melting pot, the authors note, is that it did not happen - at least not in New York or in other parts of America that much resemble New York. The principal ethnic groups of the city have maintained a distinct, if changing, identity from generation to generation. One group is not like another, and these differences, particularly where religious and cultural values are involved, are matters of choice as well as of heritage - deliberate new creations in the new country as much as perpetuations of traditional values from the old. In the tradition of Gunnar Myrdal and Oscar Handlin, this book discusses soberly and with full candor the differing levels of achievement of the five groups - in education, business, and politics. It shows how cultural inhibitions and reinforcements have affected school performance, choice of career, recreation patterns, choice of neighborhood, political action, and attitudes toward other ethnic... Tovább

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Nathan Glazer and Dániel Patrick Moynihan The point about the melting pot, the authors note, is that it did not happen - at least not in New York or in other parts of America that much resemble New York. The principal ethnic groups of the city have maintained a distinct, if changing, identity from generation to generation. One group is not like another, and these differences, particularly where religious and cultural values are involved, are matters of choice as well as of heritage - deliberate new creations in the new country as much as perpetuations of traditional values from the old. In the tradition of Gunnar Myrdal and Oscar Handlin, this book discusses soberly and with full candor the differing levels of achievement of the five groups - in education, business, and politics. It shows how cultural inhibitions and reinforcements have affected school performance, choice of career, recreation patterns, choice of neighborhood, political action, and attitudes toward other ethnic groups. It recounts the oftenfascinating story of each group's adventures in politics and struggle in the marketplace, and reveals the intertwining threads of political and commercial power in the city's history. What they say about this book: Richárd H. Rovere, The New Yorker: "Beyond the Melting Pot ... is perhaps the most perceptive inquiry into American minorities ever made." Mayor Róbert F. Wagner: "Messrs. Moynihan and Glazer have written an important book which is made more so by the fact that it is eminently readable. It reflects both social-politícal scholarship and literary skill, teliing difficult things in an easy way. It is indeed a pioneer effort to treat in depth the story of the accommodation of the migrants of the 50's - the Puerto Ricans and southern Negroes - to life in New York, and New York City's reaction to this great wave. The book does an excellent, eye-opening and thoughtful job. . . . It is a most valuable book." Richárd Schickel, Show Magaziné: ". . . the best work of descriptive sociology since The Lonely Crowd, of which Mr. Glazer was alsó co-author." Oscar Handlin, New York Times: "They have put together a thoughtful analysis that will help Americans deal with one of the most pressing problems of the great cities. That itself is a substantial accomplishment." Harpers Magaziné: ". . . sure in its grasp of relations between economic and social fact, cogent, complex, and brightly written." Time Magaziné: ". . . provocative . . . Glazer . . . and Moynihan . . . write with a refreshing candor on a subject that is usually treated all too delicately. . . . They write compassionately of the problems minority groups have faced, but they forthrightly point out that many of those problems are compounded by each group's special characteristics." Vissza