Tribal Basis of American Life

MURRAY FRIEDMAN is the Director of the Myer and Rosaline Feinstein Center for American Jewish History, Temple University, and Middle Atlantic States Director for Philadelphia Chapter of the American Jewish Committee.NANCY ISSERMAN is the Associate Director of the Myer and Rosaline Feinstein Center for American Jewish History, Temple University.

• Introduction: The Tribal Basis of American Life by Murray Friedman Changing American Group Setting Immigration, Pluralism and Public Policy by Gary Rubin The Religious Roots of the Culture Wars: How Competing Moral Visions Fuel Cultural Conflict by James Davison Hunter and Kimon Howland Sargeant Case Studies of Ethnic Conflict The Tribes of Brooklyn: Race, Class, and Ethnicity in the Crown Heights Riots by Jonathan Rieder The Persistence of Anti-Asian Hatred by Gary Okihiro The Dynamics of American Intergroup Conflict and Responses to Bigotry by Philip Perlmutter Becoming Insiders: Factors Affecting the Creation and Maintenance of Boundaries for New Immigrants by Judith Goode The World Setting and Response Ethnic Conflict at Home and Abroad: The United States in Comparative Perspective by James Kurth How Should We Talk About Intergroup Conflict? by Nathan Glazer Index