Remaking the American Mainstream: Assimilation and Contemporary ImmigrationHarvard University Press, 30 de jun. de 2009 - 384 páginas In this age of multicultural democracy, the idea of assimilation--that the social distance separating immigrants and their children from the mainstream of American society closes over time--seems outdated and, in some forms, even offensive. But as Richard Alba and Victor Nee show in the first systematic treatment of assimilation since the mid-1960s, it continues to shape the immigrant experience, even though the geography of immigration has shifted from Europe to Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Institutional changes, from civil rights legislation to immigration law, have provided a more favorable environment for nonwhite immigrants and their children than in the past. Assimilation is still driven, in claim, by the decisions of immigrants and the second generation to improve their social and material circumstances in America. But they also show that immigrants, historically and today, have profoundly changed our mainstream society and culture in the process of becoming Americans. Surveying a variety of domains--language, socioeconomic attachments, residential patterns, and intermarriage--they demonstrate the continuing importance of assimilation in American life. And they predict that it will blur the boundaries among the major, racially defined populations, as nonwhites and Hispanics are increasingly incorporated into the mainstream. |
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... African Americans , to be delayed until " the present American social order changes gradually or by revolution . " 6 Exhibited here are some of the features of the old assimilation con- ception that scholars now vigorously reject in ...
... African Americans , to be delayed until " the present American social order changes gradually or by revolution . " 6 Exhibited here are some of the features of the old assimilation con- ception that scholars now vigorously reject in ...
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... American society . Native American languages such as Navaho ( 178,000 speakers in 2000 ) continue to thrive , for instance , as do African American religious traditions and numerous customs brought by immigrant groups . Recent ...
... American society . Native American languages such as Navaho ( 178,000 speakers in 2000 ) continue to thrive , for instance , as do African American religious traditions and numerous customs brought by immigrant groups . Recent ...
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... African Americans and Latinos , a route which has probably been traveled in previous im- migration eras -- for example , by the Afro - Caribbean immigrants of the early twentieth century and their children , many of whom gradu- ally ...
... African Americans and Latinos , a route which has probably been traveled in previous im- migration eras -- for example , by the Afro - Caribbean immigrants of the early twentieth century and their children , many of whom gradu- ally ...
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... African Americans ( 9 percent ) . Although it should be noted that nearly half of Hispanics identify themselves racially as white , 26 a mainstream that constitutes a majority of California's pop- ulation will need to be racially ...
... African Americans ( 9 percent ) . Although it should be noted that nearly half of Hispanics identify themselves racially as white , 26 a mainstream that constitutes a majority of California's pop- ulation will need to be racially ...
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... African Americans . As with social mobility in industrial societies for all ethnic groups , majority or minority , assimilation into the mainstream mainly occurs as an individual , family - based process.37 The extent of intergenera ...
... African Americans . As with social mobility in industrial societies for all ethnic groups , majority or minority , assimilation into the mainstream mainly occurs as an individual , family - based process.37 The extent of intergenera ...
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Assimilation in Practice The Europeans and East Asians | 67 |
Was Assimilation Contingent on Specific Historical Conditions? | 124 |
The Background to Contemporary Immigration | 167 |
Evidence of Contemporary Assimilation | 215 |
Conclusion Remaking the Mainstream | 271 |
Notes | 295 |
Index | 351 |
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