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Ethnic America.(Our Take)(Viewpoint essay)

When Michael Novak published Rise of the Unmeltable Ethnics in 1972, some ethnics hoped that the book would become a watershed, a Catholic Central European equivalent to Martin Luther King' King's "I have a s dream." Well, the money has not ell, been found, and the period of promoting underprivileged minorities seems to have passed. American politics moves on with lightning speed, and the ethnics remain left behind. No one has ever cut them any slack. They cannot claim minority status because they are white, yet in many ways they have been discriminated against because of their names, social habits, and religious beliefs.

This issue highlights these unmeltable ethnics. The ...

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