Remaking the American mainstream : assimilation and contemporary immigration / Richard Alba, Victor Nee.
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distance separating immigrants and their children from the mainstream of American society closes over time--seems outdated and, in some forms, even offensive.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 system...
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2003.
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Table of Contents:
- Rethinking assimilation
- Assimilation theory, old and new
- Assimilation in practice : the Europeans and East Asians
- Was assimilation contingent on specific historical conditions?
- The background to contemporary immigration
- Evidence of contemporary assimilation
- Remaking the mainstream.