From Assimilation to Multiculturalism: Managing Ethnic Diversity in Milwaukee (Immigrant Communities & Ethnic Minorities in the United States & Canada)

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From Assimilation to Multiculturalism considers the formation and history of ethnic social stratification in one locality-Milwaukee, Wisconsin-and shows the varied remedy different groups encountered by the hands of local elites, authorities, and institutions. But at the same time as much of the existing historical literature on ethnic and racial groups most often isolates one or two particular communities, August moves along all the continuum of ethnicity, giving equal attention to Native Americans, European Americans, African Americans, and Asian Americans, in addition to pointing out the varied paths taken by people belonging to different religious groups. August shows how some immigrant groups were ready to undergo Americanisation and graduate to whiteness, an experience vastly unlike that of minorities identified as of late as people of colour. He also notes that the marginalisation and regulation of those on the bottom of the ethnic hierarchy came at a very great social cost. When cultural adjustment-the prevailing strategy of regulating diversity within the city prior to the social upheavals of the 1960s and 1970s-collapsed, Milwaukee adapted as required but entered the new millennium as a still severely segregated metropolis.

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