Stephan Thernstrom

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Stephan Thernstrom

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#261

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#57

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According to Wikipedia, Stephan Thernstrom is an American academic and historian who is the Winthrop Research Professor of History Emeritus at Harvard University. He is a specialist in ethnic and social history and was the editor of the Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups. He and his wife Abigail Thernstrom are prominent opponents of affirmative action in education and according to the New York Times, they "lead the conservative charge against racial preference in America."

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No Excuses: Closing the Racial Gap in Learning (2003) (514)
America in Black and White: One Nation, Indivisible (2001) (492)
Harvard encyclopedia of American ethnic groups (1981) (374)
Poverty and Progress: Social Mobility in a Nineteenth Century City. (1965) (301)
The Other Bostonians: Poverty and Progress in the American Metropolis, 1880-1970. (1964) (233)
Chicago: Growth of a Metropolis (1970) (99)
Men in Motion: Some Data and Speculations about Urban Population Mobility in Nineteenth-Century America Americans have long (1970) (63)
Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups. (1981) (45)
Nineteenth - Century Cities: Essays in the New Urban History (1969) (40)
Beyond the Color Line: New Perspectives on Race and Ethnicity in America (2002) (29)
The Other Bostonians (2014) (22)
"Yankee City" Revisited: The Perils of Historical Naivete (1965) (22)
Up or out: Social and Geographic Mobility in the United States@@@The Other Bostonians: Poverty and Progress in the American Metropolis, 1880-1970 (1975) (20)
Black Progress: How Far We've Come, and How Far We Have to Go (1998) (17)
It was Just A Bad Dream... Everything's Fine Now, Dear... You Can Go Back To Sleep...@@@America in Black and White: One Nation, Indivisible: Race in Modern America (1998) (9)
Glimpses of the Harvard Past (1986) (9)
The Black-White Student Mismatch Problem in University Admissions. (1994) (9)
8. WORKING-CLASS SOCIAL MOBILITY IN INDUSTRIAL AMERICA (1970) (8)
Poverty, planning, and politics in the new Boston : the origins of ABCD (1969) (7)
Our Changing Population (1991) (7)
Rejoinder to Alcorn and Knights (1975) (6)
Erin's Daughters in America: Irish Immigrant Women in the Nineteenth Century@@@Beyond the Ballot Box: A Social History of the Boston Irish, 1845-1917 (1984) (4)
Factory Under The Elms: A History of Harrisville, New Hampshire, 1774–1969. By John Borden Armstrong. (Cambridge: M.I.T. Press for The Merrimack Valley Textile Museum, 1969. xx + 320 pp. Maps, illustrations, charts, tables, notes, appendixes, bibliography, and index. $12.50.) (1970) (4)
Diversity and Meritocracy in Legal Education: A Critical Evaluation of Linda F. Wightman's "The Threat to Diversity in Legal Education". (1998) (4)
Farewell to Preferences (1998) (4)
Ethnic Pluralism: The U.S. Model (1983) (3)
Secrecy and Dishonesty: The Supreme Court, Racial Preferences, and Higher Education (2004) (2)
McCarthyism then and now (1991) (2)
Poverty, Planning, and Politics in the New Boston: The Origins of ABCD. (1971) (2)
The End of Preferences: Behind the UC Admissions Controversy. CEO Policy Brief. (1997) (1)
Poverty and Progress Revisited: A Response to Riess, Frisch, and Pessen (1986) (1)
The Melting Pot: A Content Analysis@@@Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups. (1981) (1)
Mobility Studies at a Crossroads@@@The Other Bostonians: Poverty and Progress in the American Metropolis, 1880-1970. (1974) (1)
chapter eight BLACKS AND WHITES (1973) (1)
chapter two POPULATION GROWTH, MIGRATION, AND TURNOVER (1973) (0)
chapter three DIFFERENTIAL MIGRATION AND ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY (1973) (0)
Asian Americans versus multiculturalism (1999) (0)
Affirmative Action Programs (United States): Cultural Concerns (2001) (0)
appendix Α. THE SOURCES AND THE SAMPLES (1973) (0)
chapter four OCCUPATIONAL CAREER PATTERNS (1973) (0)
The history of the United States (1969) (0)
The Columbus Controversy: A Historian Walks through the Battlefield of Ideas. (1992) (0)
Chicago: Growth of a Metropolis. By Harold M. Mayer and Richard C. Wade, with the assistance of Glen E. Holt. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 1969. Pp. ix, 510. $32.00.) (1970) (0)
'Must Schools Fail?': An Exchange (2005) (0)
The Thernstroms Blame the Victim (2003) (0)
The Other Bostonians: Poverty and Progress in the American Metropolis, 1860-1970 (1975) (0)
chapter five SOCIAL-CLASS ORIGINS AND OCCUPATIONAL ACHIEVEMENT (1973) (0)
chapter nine THE BOSTON CASE AND THE AMERICAN PATTERN (1973) (0)
American history:source readings: 1600 to the present (1969) (0)
chapter seven PROTESTANTS, CATHOLICS, AND JEWS (1973) (0)
appendix В. ON THE SOCIOECONOMIC RANKING OF OCCUPATIONS (1973) (0)
The Other Bostonians@@@The World of the Urban Working Class (1974) (0)
chapter six YANKEES AND IMMIGRANTS (1973) (0)
II. Religion and Occupational Mobility in Boston, 1880-1963 (2015) (0)
Immigrant City: Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1845–1921 . By Donald B. Cole. (Publication sponsored by the American Association for State and Local History.) Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1963. Pp. ix, 248. $6.00. (1964) (0)

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