ABSTRACT

This volume of commentaries on racial and ethnic relations is a sociological assessment of a changing society and a personal statement about many of the most pressing racial issues since the 1954 Brown-Supreme court decision. From the perspective of humanistic sociology, Peter Rose shows that sociology need not be a cold, artless science and argues that sociological enterprise should treat future as well as past and present issues.

chapter |14 pages

Roots and Branches: An Introduction

part I|86 pages

The Marginality of a Model Minority

chapter 2|18 pages

Tensions and Trends: American Jews in the 1980s

(1981)

chapter 3|26 pages

Country Cousins: Small-Town Jews and Their Neighbors

(1961)

chapter 4|26 pages

City Lights: The Children of Small-Town Jews

(1977)

part II|64 pages

Red, White, Blue—and Black

chapter 5|14 pages

The Black Experience: Issues and Images

(1969)

chapter 7|20 pages

Social Physics: The Resurgence of Ethnicity

(1974)

chapter 8|18 pages

Blacks and Jews: The Strained Alliance

(1981)

part III|76 pages

On Ethnic Studies and Other Matters