The American Kaleidoscope: Race, Ethnicity, and the Civic Culture

Lawrence H. Fuchs. Wesleyan University Press, $34.95 (646pp) ISBN 978-0-8195-6250-0

Fuchs shows how immigrant Americans of European descent tried to maintain a racially exclusive society, contending that this quest was abandoned only within the last three decades. ``A notable achievement,'' said PW . ``This engrossing narrative offers guidance to concerned citizens and policymakers grappling with the persistence of bigotry and an ethnic underclass.'' (Aug.)

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