Revolutionary peace through ethnic studies

Reference & Research Book News, August, 2005

GN560

2004-103078

0-7575-0695-X

Revolutionary peace through ethnic studies.

Hernandez Alvarez, Jose.

Kendall/Hunt Pub. Co., [c]2004

453 p.

$39.95 (pa)

Hernandez has some 25 years of experience teaching ethnic studies and has written several books and numerous articles on ethnic groups in the U.S. Begun as a revision of Conquered Peoples in America, Fifth Centennial Edition (Kendall/Hunt, 1997), this text "makes a case for the American peoples to declare their independence from the culture of hostility prevailing since the Revolutionary War." The author compares various peoples of color--Natives, African Americans, Chicanos, Asian and Latin Americans-within the context of the nation's development, and explores the ways that pluralism shapes the study of diversity and the conditions needed for a culture of peace. Academic but accessible to the general reader.