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Legacy of Hate

"Legacy of Hate traces the development of American minority group relations, beginning with the arrival of white Europeans and moving through the eighteenth and industrially expanding nineteenth centuries; the explosion of immigration and its attendant problems in the twentieth century; and a final chapter exploring how prejudice (racial, religious, and ethnic) his been institutionalized in the educational systems and laws.".

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"Throughout this book, Perlmutter focuses on where and why various groups encountered prejudice and discrimination and how their experiences have shaped the society we live in and how we think about one another."—BOOK JACKET.

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 325 pages

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