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Fuchs, Lawrence Howard was born on January 29, 1927 in New York City. Son of Alfred F. and Frances S. (Scheiber) Fuchs.
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Is patriarchy necessary to ensure responsible fathering? Lawrence H. Fuchs, author of Family Matters, argues that the link between male dominance and fatherhood is no longer iron-clad. Analyzing the universality of patriarchy and its incentives for cultural fatherhood, Fuchs concedes that the importance of biological differences between the sexes was a possible, even plausible, basis for the evolution of patriarchy. But in this timely work he imagines a new paradigm of fatherhood for a post-patriarchal age, one inspired by the history of Jewish patriarchy. Two millennia ago the rabbis established the strategies to curb the extreme abuses of patriarchy found in all civilizations. They did so by according wives significant sexual and economic rights. In the last two centuries as Jews became more integrated into the societies in which they lived, their unique variation of patriarchy was disrupted. Fuchs argues that the Jewish story sets the precedent for fundamental change in the nature of patriarchy today, thus breaking what may have been the evolutionary connection between male dominance and incentives for fatherhood. It is Fuchs's startling conclusion that the Jewish precedent points to the next step in evolution: fathers without patriarchy.
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Winner of the John Hope Franklin Prize (1991) Winner of the Theodore Saloutos Award from the Immigration History Society (1993) Do recent changes in American law and politics mean that our national motto -- e pluribus unum -- is at last becoming a reality? Lawrence H. Fuchs searches for answers to this question by examining the historical patterns of American ethnicity and the ways in which a national political culture has evolved to accommodate ethnic diversity. Fuchs looks first at white European immigrants, showing how most of them and especially their children became part of a unifying political culture. He also describes the ways in which systems of coercive pluralism kept persons of color from fully participating in the civic culture. He documents the dismantling of those systems and the emergence of a more inclusive and stronger civic culture in which voluntary pluralism flourishes. In comparing past patterns of ethnicity in America with those of today, Fuchs finds reasons for optimism. Diversity itself has become a unifying principle, and Americans now celebrate ethnicity. One encouraging result is the acculturation of recent immigrants from Third World countries. But Fuchs also examines the tough issues of racial and ethnic conflict and the problems of the ethno-underclass, the new outsiders. The American Kaleidoscope ends with a searching analysis of public policies that protect individual rights and enable ethnic diversity to prosper. Because of his lifelong involvement with issues of race relations and ethnicity, Lawrence H. Fuchs is singularly qualified to write on a grand scale about the interdependence in the United States of the unum and the pluribus. His book helps to clarify some difficult issues that policymakers will surely face in the future, such as those dealing with immigration, language, and affirmative action.
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From back cover - Author through meticulous research, brought together the Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, and native Hawaiian cultural contributions and detailed the impact of American settlers - plantation entrepreneurs, teachers, missionaries - from the time they assumed control of the islands in 1893 until statehood in 1959. (Description by http-mart, Roy Schoenbeck)
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Fuchs, Lawrence Howard was born on January 29, 1927 in New York City. Son of Alfred F. and Frances S. (Scheiber) Fuchs.
Bachelor, New York University, 1950. Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1955. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Brandeis University, 2002.
He was an author and university professor who founded the American studies department at Brandeis University, where he was the Meyer and Walter Jaffe Professor of American Civilization and Politics. Fuchs served in the United States. Navy during World World War II as a medic. He began teaching at Harvard University in 1952 before finishing his doctorate there in 1955.
He then began teaching at Brandeis in 1955.
Fuchs founded the American Studies department at Brandeis in 1970. He chaired the department for 25 years.
Among his courses was a seminar on American politics that he co-taught with Eleanor Roosevelt, who was a visiting professor at the time. From 1961 until 1963, Fuchs was the first Peace Corps director in the Philippines.
He later wrote a book, Those Peculiar Americans: The Peace Corps and American National Character, about his experiences with the Peace Corps.
Fuchs later founded the Commonwealth Service Corps in Massachusetts, a domestic service organization similar to the Peace Corps. In 1979, Fuchs worked as the Executive Director of the Select Commission on Immigration and Refugee Policy in the Carter administration. His efforts led to signing and passage of the Immigration Reform and Control Acting of 1986, and later the Immigration Acting of 1990.
The Immigration Reform and Control Acting of 1986 was the first major United States. immigration reform enacted since 1965 and was signed into law by President Ronald Reagan.
In 1990 Fuchs served as vice chairman of the United States Commission on Immigration Reform, a congressional advisory board. In 1997, the commission recommended increased policing of employers that hire illegal immigrants: a proposal that as of 2013 continues to be contested.
Fuchs married Natalie Rogers in 1950. They had three daughters together.
Their marriage ended in divorce in 1970.
Betty Fuchs died in 2012.
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Former member of national advisory board commission law and social action American Jewish Congress. Former member of national advisory council Mexican American Lega Defense and Education Fund. Massachusetts Congress Racial Equality.
Member executive council American Jewish Hist.Soc. Vice chairman Facing History & Ourselves. 1st chairman Commonwealth Service Corps Commission.
Former chairman of the executive committee school and society program Education Development Center, Inc. Founding president Self-Development Group, Inc. Servedwith United States Naval Reserve, 1945-1947.
Member Phi Beta Kappa.
Son of Alfred F. and Frances S. (Scheiber) F. Married Betty Corcoran September 12,1970. 1 adopted child, Carole Hooven.
Children by previous marriage:Janet Pearl, Frances Sarah, Naomi Ruth.