The American Kaleidoscope: Race, Ethnicity, and the Civic Culture
The American Kaleidoscope: Race, Ethnicity, and the Civic Culture
复制标题
美国万花筒：种族、民族和公民文化
DOI：
10.2307/2079492
复制
发表时间：
1992
期刊：
影响因子：
--
通讯作者：
L. Fuchs
中科院分区：
文献类型：
--
作者：
L. Fuchs
最近美国法律和政治的变化是否意味着我们的国家格言“合众为一”终于成为现实？劳伦斯·h·富克斯（Lawrence H. Fuchs）通过研究美国种族的历史模式，以及国家政治文化为适应种族多样性而演变的方式，来寻找这个问题的答案。富克斯首先关注的是欧洲白人移民，展示了他们中的大多数人，尤其是他们的孩子是如何成为统一政治文化的一部分的。他还描述了强制性多元主义制度如何使有色人种无法充分参与公民文化。他记录了这些制度的瓦解，以及一种更具包容性和更强大的公民文化的出现，在这种文化中，自愿的多元主义蓬勃发展。通过比较美国过去和今天的种族模式，富克斯找到了乐观的理由。多样性本身已经成为一个统一的原则，美国人现在庆祝种族。一个令人鼓舞的结果是来自第三世界国家的新移民的文化适应。但富克斯也审视了种族和民族冲突的棘手问题，以及新来者下层民族的问题。《美国万花筒》一书最后对保护个人权利和促进种族多样性的公共政策进行了深入分析。由于劳伦斯·h·富克斯（Lawrence H. Fuchs）一生都在研究种族关系和民族问题，因此他非常有资格以宏大的篇幅来描述美国“统”与“众”之间的相互依存关系。他的书有助于澄清政策制定者在未来肯定会面临的一些难题，比如移民、语言和平权行动。
Do recent changes in American law and politics mean that our national motto -- e pluribus unum -- is at last becoming a reality? Lawrence H. Fuchs searches for answers to this question by examining the historical patterns of American ethnicity and the ways in which a national political culture has evolved to accommodate ethnic diversity. Fuchs looks first at white European immigrants, showing how most of them and especially their children became part of a unifying political culture. He also describes the ways in which systems of coercive pluralism kept persons of color from fully participating in the civic culture. He documents the dismantling of those systems and the emergence of a more inclusive and stronger civic culture in which voluntary pluralism flourishes. In comparing past patterns of ethnicity in America with those of today, Fuchs finds reasons for optimism. Diversity itself has become a unifying principle, and Americans now celebrate ethnicity. One encouraging result is the acculturation of recent immigrants from Third World countries. But Fuchs also examines the tough issues of racial and ethnic conflict and the problems of the ethno-underclass, the new outsiders. The American Kaleidoscope ends with a searching analysis of public policies that protect individual rights and enable ethnic diversity to prosper. Because of his lifelong involvement with issues of race relations and ethnicity, Lawrence H. Fuchs is singularly qualified to write on a grand scale about the interdependence in the United States of the unum and the pluribus. His book helps to clarify some difficult issues that policymakers will surely face in the future, such as those dealing with immigration, language, and affirmative action.