“North American societies are not experiencing a disuniting, as Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. despaired a decade ago, echoed by similar statements in Canada. Rather they are witnessing the final collapse of minority claims to hegemony, institutional privileges, and structural preferences.”- Dirk Hoerder, “From Euro- and Afro-Atlantic to Pacific Migration System: A Comparative Migration Approach to North American History,” p. 222 in:
Rethinking American History in a Global Age
Edited by Thomas Bender
http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520230583
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