Analyzes the clash between two conflicting ways of looking at ethnic problems: a strategy of integration as opposed to a strategy of pluralism. (EH)

Constructs a set of guidelines toward the development of an ethos of the ethnic experience in America, with a particular focus on the experience of black Americans. (EH)

Characterizes the new ethnic movement as an upper-class intellectual romanticism, which has focused on an abstract craving for historical identity. Criticizes it for avoiding the principal problems of poverty and possivity of the poor, among whom the ethnics are so prominent. (EH)

Examines the failure of cultural pluralism as a cogent philosophy for black Americans from the perspective of African American history. But, while ethnic history may be more of an expression of failure than achievement, there is a need for an essentially common American experience and standards of community which can become the point of identity…

Defines the new ethnicity as an effort to attain an accurate self-knowledge on the part of members of the 3rd and 4th generation of southern and eastern European immigrants in the United States. Discusses opposing trends and argues for a new multicultural pluralism to replace the single recipe of the melting pot. (EH)

Traces the history of the Italian migration to the United States and their transition to American life. Describes changing trends in housing patterns, social mobility, educational attainment, social organizations and political and cultural orientations. (EH)