America's Ethnic Politics

?As this collection of essays ... amply demonstrates, interest group politics ... often has been played most successfully by members of ethnic groups. Their involvements have not only shaped the course(s) of their own communal activities but have had effects far beyond. The issues that led to and dominated ethnic politics, ' the rivalries that took place between the minorities themselves, and the civil rights movement and its effects on the resurgence of ethnicity, are all topics of Roucek and Eisenberg's opening essay--and many of the other seventeen selections in their book. The various papers ... offer a fairly comprehensive comparison. Readers will be enlightened by the discussions of the political behavior of Greeks, Armenians, and various Slavic-Americans, such Hispanics as Puerto Ricans, Cubans, and Mexicans, and that of the largest--if one of the lease cohesive American ethnic groups--the Germans.?-Journal of American Ethnic History