Ethnic Differences: Schooling and Social Structure Among the Irish, Italians, Jews, and Blacks in an American City, 1880-1935

by Joel Perlmann

Book Overview

Ethnic Differences, first published in 1989, explores how and why the Irish, Italians, Jews, and blacks of Providence, Rhode Island differed in their schooling and economic success. Drawing on... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 052135093X
• ISBN13: 9780521350938
• Release Date: December 1988
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

An effective rejoinder to Steinberg's Ethnic Myth

A valuable, well-argued corrective to the argument advanced in Steven Steinberg's Ethnic Myth, which downplayed the influence of cultural values on the achievements of different ethnic groups.