A Nation of Peoples: A Sourcebook on America's Multicultural Heritage.(Review)

A Nation of Peoples: A Sourcebook on America's Multicultural Heritage. Edited by Elliott Robert Barkan. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. 1999. xv + 583 pp. Appendix, selected general bibliography, and index. $99.50.

A Nation of Peoples is an up-to-date reference work that provides succinct, thoughtful, and well-written overviews of America's major ethnic groups. Editor Elliot Barkan has brought together an interdisciplinary group of specialists to write twenty-seven original essays on groups ranging from American Indians and African Americans to Koreans and South Asians. The groups, as Barkan notes in his preface, represent the world's major sending regions; they include indigenous populations as well as immigrants, long-time residents as …