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With this soon-to-be-published study, Harvard Sociology professor Orlando Patterson jumps into the ethnicity fray with both feet forward. To the unmasking of the neo-conservatism of the new ethnicity spokesmen he adds a trenchant and remarkably comprehensive critique of the psychological and sociological sources of the appeal to ethnicity, and more important, shows how this appeal has traditionally translated into reactionary and implicitly fascistic social and political action...
...ballsy book, one that must have taken a great deal of courage to write. What with the comforting sentimental aura that surrounds the ethnicity vogue, Patterson admits that in writing the book, "the very attempt at criticism became a form of treachery." And since so many social scientists have succumbed to the cries for allegiance to their own ethnicities, Patterson acknowledges that his publishers (Stein and Day) fear that "it will be difficult to find anyone who is sufficiently detached to review the book fairly...
...Patterson shrugs off the possibility of a negative critical recpetion, since he knows he is breaking new ground. He opens the book by dismissing previous studies of ethnicity as too ahistorical and descriptive. And in his fourth chapter on the "Nature and Classification of Ethnic Groups," he insightfully points out work that merely dwells on "ethnic traits" is not only analytically useless, but by definition inherently conservative. By ending the issue of how the cultural symbols associated with different ethnic groups relate to their socioeconomic position and interest, such studies put up a smokescreen that prevents their readers from realizing...
...whose members rejected the recommendations of their leaders. Most of the margin of victory came from the 1.2 million-member Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers, many of whose delegates tried in vain to challenge the pro-rule vote reported by President Hugh Scanlon. That move was scotched by Marie Patterson, a member of the transportation workers union, who said the challengers were out of order and snapped, "I am not here to rule on the internal workings of the A.U.E.W...
...acres in all and destroyed almost 200 houses, some of them worth as much as $350,000. There were no fatalities or serious injuries, but the total damage-estimated at up to $20 million-made the blaze the worst ever in Santa Barbara's history. Fire Chief William Patterson warned that because of the drought the fire season would last several months longer than usual. Said he: "This is only the prelude...