A Piece of the Pie

1. Auflage 1981
ISBN: 978-0-520-04362-6
Verlag: UNIV OF CALIFORNIA PR

Buch, Englisch, 420 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 712 g

There is little question that the descendants of the new European immigrant groups from Southern, Central, and Eastern Europe have done very well in the United States, reaching levels of achievement far above blacks. Yet the new Europeans began to migrate to the United States in 1880, a time when blacks were no longer slaves. Why have the new immigrants fared better than the blacks? This volume focuses on the historical origins of the current differences between the groups.

Professor Lieberson scoured early U. S. censuses and used a variety of offbeat information sources to develop data that would throw light on this question, as well as provide new information on occupations at the turn of the century, finding remarkable parallels between the black position in the urban South and the urban North. He examines and compares progress in education and in politics between the new Europeans and the blacks. What were the effects of segregation? Why did labor unions discriminate more severely against blacks than against the new immigrant groups? This book will generate a fresh interpretation of the origins of black-new European differences, one which explains why other nonwhite groups, such as the Chinese and Japanese, have done relatively well.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lieberson, Stanley

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Acknowledgments

1. The Problem: Black-New European Differences

Part I: Structural Background
2. The Initial Conditions
3. Government: Black Participation and Power
4. Government: The New European Groups
5. Legal and Political Issues

Part II: Socioeconomic Conditions
6. Education
7. Education in the North
8. Further Analyses of Education in the North
9. Residential Segregation
10. Earning a Living: 1900
11. Occupational Trends Earlier in this Century

Part III: Conclusions
12. Conclusions

References
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Stanley Lieberson, Professor of Sociology, University of Arizona, is one of the leading scholars in the area of race and ethnic relations and has published extensively in the field.