Remaking the American Mainstream : : Assimilation and Contemporary Immigration / / Victor Nee, Richard D. Alba.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 (Canada)
• VerfasserIn: Alba, Richard D.,; Nee, Victor,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2009]; ©2003
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (384 p.)

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distance separating immigrants and their children from the mainstream of American society closes over time--seems outdated and, in some forms, even offensive.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...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Preface
• 1. Rethinking Assimilation
• 2. Assimilation Theory, Old and New
• 3. Assimilation in Practice: The Europeans and East Asians
• 4. Was Assimilation Contingent on Specific Historical Conditions?
• 5. The Background to Contemporary Immigration
• 6. Evidence of Contemporary Assimilation
• 7. Conclusion: Remaking the Mainstream
• Notes. Index
• Notes
• Index