Marilyn Halter: 3 books
Shopping for Identity
The Marketing of Ethnicity
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
In America today, you can connect to your ethnic heritage in dozens of ways, or adopt an identity just for an evening. Our society is not a melting pot but a salad bar--a bazaar in which the purveyors of goods and services spend close to $2 billion a year marketing the foods, clothing, objects, vacations,...
African & American
West Africans in Post-Civil Rights America
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2014
African & American tells the story of the much overlooked experience of first and second generation West African immigrants and refugees in the United States during the last forty years. Interrogating the complex role of post-colonialism in the recent history of black America, Marilyn Halter and Violet...
What’s New about the "New" Immigration?
Traditions and Transformations in the United States since 1965
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
Historians commonly point to the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act as the inception of a new chapter in the story of American immigration. This wide-ranging interdisciplinary volume brings together scholars from varied disciplines to consider what is genuinely new about this period.