Legacy of Hate: A Short History of Ethnic, Religious and Racial Prejudice in America: A Short History of Ethnic, Religious and Racial Prejudice in Ame [Hardcover]

For all its foundation on the principles of religious freedom and human equality, American history contains numerous examples of bigotry and persecution of minorities. Now, author Philip Perlmutter lays out the history of prejudice in America in a brief, compact, and readable volume. Perlmutter begins with the arrival of white Europeans, moves through the eighteenth and industrially expanding nineteenth centuries; the explosion of immigration and its attendant problems in the twentieth century; and a fifth chapter explores how prejudice (racial, religious, and ethnic) has been institutionalized in the educational systems and laws. His final chapter covers the future of minority progress.This history of prejudice in America begins with the arrival of white Europeans. The author moves through the 18th and industrially expanding 19th centuries, to the explosion of immigration and its attendant problems in the 20th century. Finally, the future of minority progress is addressed.Chapter One The Seeds of Contempt; Chapter Two The Weeds of Contempt; Chapter 3 Proliferation of People and Problems; Chapter 4 The Expansion of Democratic Pluralism; Chapter 5 The Teaching of Contempt; Chapter 6 The Future of Minority Progress;USCopyright ? 1999, Taylor & Francis.