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Assimilation, American Style » Read Now
by Peter D. Salins. 262 pgs.

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The past few years have witnessed an intensification of anti-immigration sentiment in America. Lost in the midst of the acrimony is what actually happens to immigrants once they arrive and settle here, a story that is told in Assimilation, American Style. Peter D. Salins, himself a child of...
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The past few years have witnessed an intensification of anti-immigration sentiment in America. Lost in the midst of the acrimony is what actually happens to immigrants once they arrive and settle here, a story that is told in Assimilation, American Style. Peter D. Salins, himself a child of immigrants and a leading scholar of urban affairs, makes a powerful case that, at a time when the immigrant population of the United States is growing larger and more diverse, the nation must rededicate itself to its historic mission of assimilating immigrants of all ethnic backgrounds. Reviewing the history of assimilation, he reveals how successive immigrant populations have become Americanized, despite being considered "alien" in their time - notably, the Germans, Irish, Italians, and Jews - and how assimilation continues to work among Hispanics and Asians today. America's vitality as a nation, Salins argues, depends on its being as successful in assimilating its newest immigrants as it was in integrating earlier immigrant groups. Salins advances our understanding of assimilation in two important ways. He convincingly shows how America's unique social compact of assimilation has permitted immigrants and their descendants to hold on to their ethnic traditions even as they acquired an American identity. He also documents the dire ramifications of our retreat from the ideal of assimilation in recent decades, countering the multiculturalists who ask ethnic Americans to reject assimilation in favor of ethnic separatism, and the nativists who reject further immigration together.
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Culture, National Identity and Admission to Citizenship, in Social Theory and Practice » Read Now
by Shelley Wilcox. 24 pgs.

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The Melting Pot - Part 1: Are We There Yet?, in World and I » Read Now
by Anne Wortham. 21 pgs.

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The Melting Pot, Part 2 - America's Cultural-Institutional Core, in World and I » Read Now
by Anne Wortham. 23 pgs.

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Assimilation Blues: Black Families in a White Community » Read Now
by Beverly Daniel Tatum. 118 pgs.

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"Assimilation Blues contributes to an expanding body of comparative family studies. . . . a springboard for the development of more directly comparative analysis. Family research involving issues of race and class should flow naturally from insights suggested by this work. As a significant...
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"Assimilation Blues contributes to an expanding body of comparative family studies. . . . a springboard for the development of more directly comparative analysis. Family research involving issues of race and class should flow naturally from insights suggested by this work. As a significant contribution to the way we think about families, black-white relations, and social change, the book is well worth serious examination by scholars, as well as individals who find themselves in similar circumstances." Contemporary Sociology
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Out of the Barrio: Toward a New Politics of Hispanic Assimilation » Read Now
by Linda Chavez. 210 pgs.

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This controversial book shatters the myth that twenty million Hispanics are a permanent underclass. Linda Chavez tells the largely untold story of Hispanic progress and achievement and considers the radical implications for bilingual education, immigration policy, and affirmative action.
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Life Lines: Community, Family, and Assimilation among Asian Indian Immigrants » Read Now
by Jean Bacon. 302 pgs.

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Asian Indians figure prominently among the educated, middle class subset of contemporary immigrants. They move quickly into residences, jobs, and lifestyles that provide little opportunity with fellow migrants, yet they continue to see themselves as a distinctive community within contemporary...
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Asian Indians figure prominently among the educated, middle class subset of contemporary immigrants. They move quickly into residences, jobs, and lifestyles that provide little opportunity with fellow migrants, yet they continue to see themselves as a distinctive community within contemporary American society. In Life Lines Bacon chronicles the creation of a community--Indian-born parents and their children living in the Chicago metropolitan area--bound by neither geographic proximity, nor institutional ties, and explores the processes through which ethnic identity is transmitted to the next generation. Bacon's study centers upon the engrossing portraits of five immigrant families, each one a complex tapestry woven from the distinctive voices of its family members. Both extensive field work among community organizations and analyses of ethnic media help Bacon expose the complicated interplay between the private social interactions of family life and the stylized rhetoric of "Indianness" that permeates public life. This inventive analysis suggests that the process of assimilation which these families undergo parallels the assimilation process experienced by anyone who conceives of him or herself as a member of a distinctive community in search of a place in American society.
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Assimilation Differences among Africans in America, in Social Forces » Read Now
by F. Nii-Amoo Dodoo. 20 pgs.

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...separate exploratory runs for the two immigrant groups produced rather steep "assimilation" gradients, quite incongruent with the expected high productivity of "cultural"...
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Indonesians of Chinese Origin: Assimilation and the Goal of "One Nation-One People" » Read Now
by Stuart William Greif. 90 pgs.

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...Indonesia -- Cultural assimilation. 2. Indonesia...growing trend of assimilationism among the Peranakans...distinct racial, cultural, and economic elite...intermarriage...
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The Socioeconomic Assimilation of Caribbean American Blacks, in Social Forces » Read Now
by Matthijs Kalmijn. 20 pgs.

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...community ( Foner 1985). Cultural assimilation in this context may imply...represent a case where cultural assimilation may hamper rather than improve...achievement. While...
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White Ethnic Neighborhoods and Assimilation: the Greater New York Region, 1980-1990, in Social Forces » Read Now
by Richard D. Alba, John R. Logan, Kyle Crowder. 30 pgs.

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...labor markets and acquire the cultural skills to function outside...convert socioeconomic and assimilation progress into residential...reasons. First, they may slow...
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The Movement for Indian Assimilation, 1860-1890 » Read Now
by Henry E. Fritz. 250 pgs.

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...Here were a Stone-Age people, culturally separated from their white...widespread. Locality and stage of cultural development made little difference...conquest of their...
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Assimilation and Association in French Colonial Theory, 1890-1914 » Read Now
by Raymond F. Betts. 224 pgs.

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...from the idea of assimilation to the idea of...administratively and culturally into the French...particular national and cultural environments and...conclusion that...
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Ethnic Groups and Marital Choices: Ethnic History and Marital Assimilation in Canada, 1871 and 1971 » Read Now
by Madeline A. Richard. 194 pgs.

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...concurrently with acculturation or cultural assimilation. While there is no necessary...intermarriage is not a requisite for cultural assimilation. In addition, older...