The Ethnic Myth : Race, Ethnicity, and Class in America

Foreword viii Eric Lott Preface to the Updated Edition xii Preface: The Demystification of Ethnicity xv PART ONE: THE SIMMERING MELTING POT Introduction: The New Ethnicity in Historical Perspective 3(2) The Ignominious Origins of Ethnic Pluralism in America 5(39) The Ethnic Crisis in American Society 44(38) PART TWO: SOCIAL CLASS AND ETHNIC MYTHS Introduction: The New Darwinism 77(5) The Myth of Ethnic Success: The Jewish Horatio Alger Story 82(24) The Culture of Poverty Reconsidered 106(22) Education and Ethnic Mobility: The Myth of Jewish Intellectualism and Catholic Anti-Intellectualism 128(23) Why Irish Became Domestics and Italians and Jews Did Not 151(22) PART THREE: THE CLASS CHARACTER OF RACIAL AND ETHNIC CONFLICT Introduction: The ``Iron Law of Ethnicity'' Revised 169(4) The Reconstruction of Black Servitude after the Civil War 173(28) Racial and Ethnic Conflict in the Twentieth Century 201(21) The ``Jewish Problem'' in American Higher Education 222(31) Dilemmas and Contradictions of Ethnic Pluralism in America 253(50) Epilogue Ethnic Heroes and Racial Villains in American Social Science 263(40) Index 303(16) Acknowledgments 319