The American Kaleidoscope (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Lawrence H. Fuchs
- First Published: 1991
- Type of Work: History and current affairs
- Time of Work: The seventeenth century to the 1990’s
- Setting: The United States
- Genres: Nonfiction, Current affairs, History
- Subjects: African Americans, Civil rights, Communism or communists, Politics, Race, Native Americans or American Indians, Ethnic relations, Immigration or emigration, Latinos, Asian Americans, Soviet Union
- Locales: United States
The collapse of Communism in the Eastern Bloc and the break-up of the Soviet Union, the emergence of the European Community, the growing economic dominance of Japan—these and other developments have prompted considerable speculation about the prospects for a “new world order.” Yet such analyses, whether optimistic or pessimistic, have for the most part consigned to the periphery or ignored altogether a factor that will become increasingly significant in the near future: worldwide migration of people on an unprecedented scale.
All over the world, nations which in the past...
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