In chapter 8 a main topic of discussion covered by Huntington was immigration. At the start of the chapter he brings up an interesting statistic, basically saying that between 1820 and 1924 the main majority of immigrants coming into the… Read moreChapter 8 ERA
Amy Wax and other scholars who make the kind of argument she makes about the cultural contributions to racial disparities often take some heated criticism. It’s important to recognize however that this same argument is made by some black cultural… Read moreSome discussion topics and questions from Amy Wax’s book
Here is a psychologist at Temple University describing his research on racial and ethnic disparities in educational outcomes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGx17P_O2LI. How does this research fit with the arguments made in Amy Wax’s book? What, if anything, could be done to address… Read moreOn racial and ethnic disparities in the US in educational outcomes
his seems to me a near-perfect example of the conflict Huntington is talking about in chapter 7. Maher seems to want to be making a point about inequality, but it is clearly clothed in a more or less unconcealed contempt… Read moreHuntington and the conflict between elites and ‘flyover America’
In Chapter 8, Huntington discusses immigration and how the composition of American immigrants has undergone drastic changes over the years. At the onset of mass American immigration, the composition of immigrants was relatively homogenous in that people coming into the… Read moreWho Are We? Ch 8 ERA