Legacy of Hate: A Short History of Ethnic Religious and Racial Prejudice in America

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.