Vincent N. Parrillo - Strangers to These Shores, 11/e

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Race and Ethnic Relations in the United States

Eleventh Edition

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Parrillo, Vincent N.

Strangers to these shores : race and ethnic relations in the United States / Vincent N. Parrillo, William Paterson University. Eleventh Edition.

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ISBN-13: 978-0-205-97040-7

ISBN-10: 0-205-97040-0

1.United StatesRace relations.2.United StatesEthnic relations.I.Title.

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To my Italian-American father and to my Irish/German-American mother

Americans spend a lot of time thinking about race. Yet we often have a hard time talking about it. The subject is fraught, complicated, and deeply emotional. We worry that whatever we say may cause offense or perhaps betray a bias we know is inappropriate to express. Part of the problem is that the concept is hard to define. Race, social scientists tell us, is more a social construction than a biological reality. As the sociologist Ruben Rumbaut likes to say, it is a pigment of our imagination. Yet the fact that race is to a large degree imaginary does not mean it can simply be imagined away. It is real, because it has real effects on peoples lives.

Ethnicity is even harder to grasp. People often feel they are part of ethnic groups. They sense that ethnic identity is a central part of who they are, something with deep roots that connects them to a long history. Yet a closer examination shows that the content of ethnic identities is constantly in flux and that ethnic boundaries change from time to time and place to place.

In order to have the conversation about race and ethnicity that Americans are so good at avoiding, perhaps the first step is in understanding where these categories come from and where they are going. For anyone ready to take that step, I cannot imagine a better starting place than this book. Simply put, Vincent Parrillos Strangers to These Shores is the best textbook on race and ethnicity currently on the market, as well as one of the best introductions to the topic for the general reader.

The book stands out in a number of ways. First, it is wonderfully written. It avoids clichs and presents complex and controversial material in a style that is clear, fresh, and almost totally free of dogma and jargon. In a time of globalization, the book takes a truly global view of its subject. It recognizes that, while race and ethnicity play a distinct role in American life, they also shape the lives of people in countries around the world, and ethnic conflicts and ethnic identities spill over national borders. The book is also timely; by updating it with frequent new editions, Parrillo has kept abreast of the latest in social scientific research, and in this edition he has added the innovative Students Speak boxes, a feature that makes the book even more accessible. Furthermore, his book takes an expansive view of its subject. In the chapters on new ethnic groups, such as the one on Middle Eastern and North African Americans, and in examining the experience of other types of minority (and majority) groups such as Gays and Lesbians and women, the book broadens our view of who the stranger is. Parrillo shows how ideas that emerged from the struggles for racial and ethnic equality can come to shape the self understandings of very different sorts of social groups. Finally, one of the things I like best about Strangers to These Shores is its historical context. While racial and ethnic identities are often thought of as primordial and unchanging, Parrillo places racial and ethnic groups in their historically specific contexts. In these pages readers will see not only how racial and ethnic groups came to be, but also how they are changing, and how they will no doubt continue to change in the future.