Symbolic ethnicity: The future of ethnic groups and cultures in America*

Abstract

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes A longer version of this paper appears in Herbert J. Gans, Nathan Glazer, Joseph R. Gusfield and Christopher Jencks, eds, On the Making of Americans: Essays in Honor of David Riesman. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1979. The paper was originally stimulated by S. N. Eisenstadt's talk at Columbia University in November 1975 on ‘Unity and Diversity in Contemporary Jewish Society’. For helpful comments on an earlier draft, I am grateful to Harold Abramson, Richard Alba, James Crispino, Nathan Glazer, Milton Gordon, Andrew Greeley, William Kornblum, Peter Marris, Michael Novak, David Riesman, Paul Ritterband, Allan Silver and John Slawson.