Beyond the Melting Pot [antikvár]

INTRODUCTION TO THE SECOND EDITIONNew York City in 1970THE VIEW FROM 1970 the major part of Bejond the Melting Pot dates from 1960-61. It was in those years, at the end of Mayor Wagner's second term, that we wrote the chapters on the five major ethnic groups. (Glazer wrote the sections on the Negroes, Puerto Ricans, Italians, and Jews. Moynihan wrote the section on the Irish.) Glazer had formulated the major themes sometime earlier: they were that ethnicity in New York remains important; that it would continue to be important for politics and culture; that, from the perspective of New York City, Negroes and Puerto Ricans could be seen as the latest of the series of major ethnic groups that hadoddly enough, two by two, beginning with Germans and Irish, going on to Jews and Italianscome as immigrants to make up the population of the city; that helping to make each group different, in its own development and its relation to the rest of the city, were its basic cultural