Annual Editions: Race and Ethnic Relations, 16/e

This Sixteenth Edition of ANNUAL EDITIONS: RACE AND ETHNIC RELATIONS provides convenient, inexpensive access to current articles selected from the best of the public press. Organizational features include: an annotated listing of selected World Wide Web sites; an annotated table of contents; a topic guide; a general introduction; brief overviews for each section; a topical index; and an instructor's resource guide with testing materials. USING ANNUAL EDITIONS IN THE CLASSROOM is offered as a practical guide for instructors. ANNUAL EDITIONS titles are supported by our student website, www.mhcls.com/online.

Unit 1 Local Experiences of Racial and Ethnic Identity, Communities, and Diversity in America 1. 45633 Ethnic Goes Exurban,Tyler Cowen, The Washington Post , September 3, 2006 Tyler Cowen's account opens a wide angle vista onto the migration of ethnic restaurants in Northern Virginia, and settlement patterns and practices related to ethnic food in the Washington metropolitan area. 2. 36116 It's Blarney Meets Chutzpah, over Red Wine and Green Beer,Jennifer Medina, The New York Times , March 17, 2003 The convergence on the same night of two religious holidaysSaint Patrick's Day and Purimbrings together Catholics and Jews in New York City to celebrate. 3. 45664 A Shift in the Income Divide in Queens Puts Blacks Ahead of Whites,Sam Roberts, The New York Times , October 1, 2006 This neighborhood profile by Sam Roberts reveals income and housing settlement varieties of African Americans, and challenges stereotypical notions. 4. 36115 'New Brooklyns' Replace White Suburbs,Rick Hampson, USA Today , May 19, 2003 Rick Hampson's new metaphor found in his report on recent census data and themigration from cities to suburbsreveals, the ongoing shift ofurban ethnicitiesand the formation of new patterns of residential and migrant-group interaction as the metropolitization of America enters its fifth decade. 5. 36114 Parishes in Transition: Holding on While Letting Go,Jessica Trobaugh Temple and Erin Blasko, South Bend Tribune , May 8, 2003 These local accounts ofHispanic,Hungarian,and Polish communitiesreveal the transition experienced by ethnicCatholic parishesin an older industrial city of the Midwest. 6. 39027 In New York, Gospel Resounds in African Tongues,Daniel J. Wakin, The New York Times , April 18, 2004 Daniel Wakin's account of a newAfrican immigrant spiritualityreveals the changing patterns of religion and cultural differentiation related to recent immigrant experiences within the larger demographic category of African-Americans. 7. 45634 In Brooklyn, An Evolving Ethnicity,Delizia Flaccavento, Ambassador, National Italian American Foundation , Summer 2006 This profile of the streets of Bensonhurst recounts efforts by the Federation of Italian-American Organizations toward the recultivation of neighborhood -based ethnicity that flourished in this original ethnic enclave. 8. 45635 Melange Cities,Blair A. Ruble, The Wilson Quarterly , Summer 2006 Blair A. Ruble's essay on the expansion of ethnically pluralistic cities documents the significant transformation of the Washington Metropolitan area. 9. 39028 Greektown's Rise No Myth,Antero Pietila, Baltimore Sun , June 22, 2004 Pietila's report on recent efforts of the Greek-American experience in Baltimore, the formation of a new mechanism such asCommunity Development Corporation, and the struggle for resurgence of place and ethnic style are emblematic of positiveurban initiativesat the crucial intersections of culture, commerce, and housing. Unit 2 Echoes from the Past and Pieces of Our Ambiguous Legacies 10.