Creating the New Right Ethnic in 1970s America

This work analyzes the "New Ethnicity" of the 1970s as a way of understanding America''s political turn to the right in that decade. An upsurge of vocal ethnic consciousness among second-, third-, and fourth-generation Southern and Eastern Europeans, the New Ethnicity simultaneously challenged and emulated earlier identity movements such as Black Power.

The movement was more complex than the histor...