Volume 37, Number 18 · November 22, 1990
Trans-National America
By Andrew Hacker
Going to School: The African-American Experience
edited by Kofi Lomotey
State University of New York Press, 242 pp., $16.95 (paper)
Ethnic Identity: The Transformation of White America
by Richard D. Alba
Yale University Press, 374 pp., $35.00
The Closest of Strangers: Liberalism and the Politics of Race in New York
by Jim Sleeper
Norton, 345 pp., $21.95
Forked Tongue: The Politics of Bilingual Education
by Rosalie Pedalino Porter
Basic Books, 285 pp., $22.95
A Curriculum of Inclusion: Report of the Commissioner's Task Force on Minorities
New York State Department of Education, 76 pp.
From Gatekeeper to Gateway: Transforming Testing in America
National Commission on Testing and Public Policy, Boston College, 59 pp., $6.00 (paper)
Campus Ethnoviolence and the Policy Options
by Howard J. Ehrlich
National Institute Against Prejudice and Violence, 72 pp., $10.00 (paper)
The American Kaleidoscope: Race, Ethnicity, and the Civic Culture
by Lawrence H. Fuchs
Wesleyan University Press, 640 pp., $45.00
Each year, this country becomes less white, less 'European,' and less tightly bound by a single language. The United States now has a greater variety of cultures than at any time in its history. This has resulted largely from the recent rise in immigration, for the most part from Latin America and Asia, but also from Eastern Europe and the Middle East. In addition, some Americans who were born in the United States are saying they can no longer identify with its prevailing culture.
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