Examining race and ethnic relations through an intersectional lens, Shirley Yee's An Immigrant Neighborhoodinvestigates the ways that race, class, and gender together shaped concepts of integration and assimilation as well as whiteness and citizenship in lower Manhattan during the late nineteenth and early twentieth-centuries.

In contrast to accounts of insulated neighborhoods and ethnic enclaves, Yee unearths the story of working class urban dwellers of various ethnic groups—Chinese, Jews, Italians, and Irish—routinely interacting in social and economic settings.

Yee's numerous, fascinating anecdotes—such as one about an Irishman who served as the only funeral director for Chinese for many years—recount the lived experiences of these neighborhoods, detailing friendships, business relationships, and sexual relationships that vividly counter the prevailing idea that different ethnic groups did not mix except in ways marked by violence and hostility.

Peter Kreeft likes to argue. He has been Professor of Philosophy at Boston College for over 45 years, and has written over 60 books in philosophy and theology, including Socratic Logic, the only complete Aristotelian (common-sense, ordinary-language) logic textbook in print; Summa of the Summa and A Shorter Summa on St. Thomas’s Summa Theologiae; and many Socratic dialogues in which Socrates meets Jesus, Machiavelli, Marx, Sartre, Descartes, Hume, and Kant. All of them can be understood by non-philosophers as well as philosophers; that is why he is not a famous philosopher.