Mosaics and melting pots

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Volumn 46, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 36-42

  Fredrickson, George M ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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References (6)

1. Michael Walzer, On Toleration (Yale University Press, 1997), pp. 73-74.
2. "Asked in a survey which category of immigrants poses the greatest difficulty for integration, 50 percent of French respondents identified North Africans, far more than the 19 percent who named Black Africans. . . ." Donald L. Horowitz, "Immigration and Group Relations in France and America," in Immigrants in Two Democracies: French and American Experience, eds. Donald L. Horowitz and Gerard Noriel (New York University Press, 1992), p. 19.
3. Charles Taylor et al., Multiculturalism: Examining the Politics of Recognition, edited and introduced by Amy Gutmann, ed. (Princeton University Press, 1994), pp. 8, 113.
4. Ibid., p. 135
5. According to calculations based on population table 62 of The Statistical Abstract of the United States, 1997 (U.S. Government Printing Office, 1997), p. 57 , 9.6 percent of marital unions involving blacks were interracial, and 8.6 percent resulted from blacks having married whites. This contrasts with the 27.4 percent of all existing marital unions involving Hispanics that represent outmarriages. The outmarriage rates of Asian Americans, especially Japanese, have been even higher than those of Hispanics. A majority of whites remain opposed to marriage across the color line. In 1994, polls revealed that only 45 percent of whites approved of marriages between blacks and whites and 16 percent thought they should be made illegal. See table 2 of Stephan Thernstrom and Abigail Thernstrom, America in Black and White: One Nation Indivisible (Simon and Schuster, 1997), p. 524.
6. According to calculations based on population table 62 of The Statistical Abstract of the United States, 1997 (U.S. Government Printing Office, 1997), p. 57 , 9.6 percent of marital unions involving blacks were interracial, and 8.6 percent resulted from blacks having married whites. This contrasts with the 27.4 percent of all existing marital unions involving Hispanics that represent outmarriages. The outmarriage rates of Asian Americans, especially Japanese, have been even higher than those of Hispanics. A majority of whites remain opposed to marriage across the color line. In 1994, polls revealed that only 45 percent of whites approved of marriages between blacks and whites and 16 percent thought they should be made illegal. See table 2 of Stephan Thernstrom and Abigail Thernstrom, America in Black and White: One Nation Indivisible (Simon and Schuster, 1997), p. 524.