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Tables of Contents for The Ethnic Myth
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
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