To be an American : : cultural pluralism and the rhetoric of assimilation / / Bill Ong Hing.
The impetus behind California's Proposition 187 clearly reflects the growing anti-immigrant sentiment in this country. Many Americans regard today's new immigrants as not truly American, as somehow less committed to the ideals on which the country was founded. In clear, precise terms, Bill...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : New York University Press,, [1997] ©1997 |
| Year of Publication: | 1997 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Critical America.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (258 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Front matter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. A Superior Multicultural Experience
- Chapter 2. A Nation of Immigrants, a History of Nativism
- Chapter 3. Mi Cliente y Amigo: Rodolfo Martinez Padilla
- Chapter 4. Searching for the Truth about Immigrants and Jobs
- Chapter 5. How Much Do Immigrants Cost? The Methodology Wars
- Chapter 6. Contextualizing Immigration
- Chapter 7. Low-Wage Immigrants and African Americans
- Chapter 8. Beyond the Economic Debate: The Cultural Complaint
- Chapter 9. The Challenge to Cultural Pluralists: Interethnic Group Conflict and Separatism
- Chapter 10. A New Way of Looking at America
- Chapter 11. Back to Superior
- Notes
- Index