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Ethnicity: Perspectives in History and Sociology. A Review Article

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2009

Patrick J. Blessing
Affiliation:
University of Tulsa

Abstract

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Ethnic Elites
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Copyright © Society for the Comparative Study of Society and History 1980

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6 These essays are reprinted in Herbert Gutman, G., Work, Culture and Society in Industrial- izing America: Essays in American Working-Class and Social History (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1976).Google Scholar

7 See Mintz, Sidney, “Afterword,” in Higham, Ethnic Leadership, p. 199.Google Scholar

8 Ibid., p. 199.

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