(Paperback)

The melting pot is a myth, according to Fernandez. The United States is and always has been a banquet of cultures. Thus, he argues, the best way to deal with the millions of new immigrants is to accept, recognize, and eagerly explore the differences among the American people.

(Hardback)

Secondly, the nation's many ethnic groups offer a way to erase the black/white dichotomy which, masks the shared injustices of millions of European, Asian, African, Native, and Latino Americans.

(Paperback)

Fernandez examines the lives and ideas of sociologists who shaped the main contours of the discipline. Weber, Marx, Durkheim, and Simmel fashioned the early ideas and approaches of sociology, and their ideas are still central to the discipline. Veblen, Mead, Goffman, and Berger added crucial conceptual approaches;

(Hardback)

Fernandez examines the lives and ideas of sociologists who shaped the main contours of the discipline. Weber, Marx, Durkheim, and Simmel fashioned the early ideas and approaches of sociology, and their ideas are still central to the discipline. Veblen, Mead, Goffman, and Berger added crucial conceptual approaches;

(Paperback, 2nd edition)

This is a revised and updated edition of Ronald Fernandez's acclaimed study of the Puerto Rico-United States relationship. The new edition is completely up-to-date through 1995 and includes important new material based upon documents found in the Reagan presidential library, as well as newly declassified documents in the Eisenhower library.

(Hardback, 2nd Revised edition)

This is a revised and updated edition of Ronald Fernandez's acclaimed study of the Puerto Rico-United States relationship. The new edition is completely up-to-date through 1995 and includes important new material based upon documents found in the Reagan presidential library, as well as newly declassified documents in the Eisenhower library.