Ethnic America Author:Thomas Sowell Thomas Sowell provides us with a useful and concise record tracing the history of nine ethnic groups, the Irish, the Germans, the Jews, the Italians, the Chinese, the Japanese, the Blacks, the Puerto Ricans, and the Mexicans. He offers perspective-building facts, such as there are more people of Irish ancestry in the United States than... more » in Ireland and more Jews than in Israel. He explains each ethnic group's varied experiences in adapting to American society.« less