| Description |
ix, 335 pages ; 24 cm |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
Defining assimilation for the 21st century : the new immigrants : a progress report / Tamar Jacoby -- The American kaleidoscope, then and now / Herbert J. Gans -- Rediscovering the melting pot : still going strong / Stephan Thernstrom -- Assimilation today : is one identity enough? / Nathan Glazer -- The 21st century : an entirely new story / Roger Waldinger -- Toward a new definition / Victor Nee and Richard Alba -- The assimilation contract : endangered but still holding / Peter D. Salins -- The American side of the bargain / Douglas S. Massey -- Mexican-Americans and the Mestizo melting pot / Gregory Rodriguez -- Assimilation, the Asian way / Min Zhou -- For the second generation, one step at a time / Alejandro Portes -- The alloy of New York / Pete Hamill -- Toward a post-ethnic economy / Joel Kotkin -- Economic assimilation : trouble ahead / George J. Borjas -- Assimilation to the American creed / Amitai Etzioni -- "This was our riot, too" : the political assimilation of today's immigrants / Peter Skerry -- The melting pot and the color line / Stephen Steinberg -- Getting over identity / John McWhorter -- New Americans after September 11 / Michael Barone -- Goose-loose blues for the melting pot / Stanley Crouch -- The new two-way street / Gary Shteyngart -- What it means to be American in the 21st century / Tamar Jacoby. |
| Summary |
"Hailing from across the ideological spectrum, the contributors to Reinventing the Melting Pot include distinguished social scientist, prize-winning journalists, and fiction writers-thinkers like Nathan Glazer, Herbert Gans, John McWhorter, Michael Barone, Pete Hamill, and Stanley Crouch. They consider every aspect of the issue: from how today's new arrivals are different than yesterday's to how immigrant businesses are faring in the Houston suburbs. Running through their essays is a single, common theme: although ethnicity plays a more important role now than ever before, today's newcomers can and will become Americans and enrich our national life-reinventing the melting pot and reminding us all just what it is we have in common."--Jacket. |
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United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects.
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Immigrants -- United States -- Social conditions.
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Assimilation (Sociology) -- United States.
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Assimilation (Sociology) (OCoLC)fst00819095
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Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects.
(OCoLC)fst00908722
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Immigrants -- Social conditions.
(OCoLC)fst00967782
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Added Author |
Jacoby, Tamar, 1954-
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| ISBN |
0465036341 |
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9780465036349 |
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046503635X (paperback) |
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9780465036356 (paperback) |
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