001478188 000__ 08142nam\a22008775i\4500 001478188 001__ 1478188 001478188 003__ DE-B1597 001478188 005__ 20231026034849.0 001478188 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 001478188 007__ cr\un\nnnunnun 001478188 008__ 210830t20092003mau\\\\\o\\d\z\\\\\\eng\d 001478188 019__ $$a(OCoLC)1049621945 001478188 019__ $$a(OCoLC)1054880587 001478188 020__ $$a9780674020115 001478188 0247_ $$a10.4159/9780674020115$$2doi 001478188 035__ $$a(DE-B1597)457535 001478188 035__ $$a(OCoLC)979904407 001478188 040__ $$aDE-B1597$$beng$$cDE-B1597$$erda 001478188 0410_ $$aeng 001478188 044__ $$amau$$cUS-MA 001478188 050_4 $$aJV6475 -- A433 2003eb 001478188 072_7 $$aSOC007000$$2bisacsh 001478188 08204 $$a303.48/273 001478188 1001_ $$aAlba, Richard D., $$eauthor.$$4aut$$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 001478188 24510 $$aRemaking the American Mainstream :$$bAssimilation and Contemporary Immigration /$$cVictor Nee, Richard D. Alba. 001478188 264_1 $$aCambridge, MA : $$bHarvard University Press, $$c[2009] 001478188 264_4 $$c©2003 001478188 300__ $$a1 online resource (384 p.) 001478188 336__ $$atext$$btxt$$2rdacontent 001478188 337__ $$acomputer$$bc$$2rdamedia 001478188 338__ $$aonline resource$$bcr$$2rdacarrier 001478188 347__ $$atext file$$bPDF$$2rda 001478188 50500 $$tFrontmatter -- $$tContents -- $$tPreface -- $$t1. Rethinking Assimilation -- $$t2. Assimilation Theory, Old and New -- $$t3. Assimilation in Practice: The Europeans and East Asians -- $$t4. Was Assimilation Contingent on Specific Historical Conditions? -- $$t5. The Background to Contemporary Immigration -- $$t6. Evidence of Contemporary Assimilation -- $$t7. Conclusion: Remaking the Mainstream -- $$tNotes. Index -- $$tNotes -- $$tIndex 001478188 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 001478188 520__ $$aIn 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distance separating immigrants and their children from the mainstream of American society closes over time--seems outdated and, in some forms, even offensive.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. Table of Contents: Preface 1. Rethinking Assimilation 2. Assimilation Theory, New and Old 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 Reviews of this book: Sociologists Alba and Nee provide a superb, comprehensive analysis of theory, data, and history to revise past and contemporary understandings of immigration and assimilation in the U.S. Their goal is to respond to skeptics' pessimism about new immigrants' assimilability, question misconception about the assimilation experiences of previous and current immigrant groups, reject normative baggage attached to notions of assimilation, and answer the question, 'What can assimilation look like in such a diverse and ethnically dynamic society?'--S. M. Green, ChoiceAlba and Nee have written a carefully theorized, thoughtfully argued, and empirically well-grounded book. They demonstrate persuasively that the so-called "new" immigration is not terribly different from previous ones, and that most of the descendants of today's Hispanic, Asian, and other newcomers are assimilating in much the same way as the children and grandchildren of the European immigration. Their contribution to our understanding of immigration, ethnicity and race should be read far beyond the worlds of social science scholarship.--Herbert J. Gans, Author of Democracy and the NewsAssimilation is dead, long live assimilation! Alba and Nee are fully aware of the flaws and biases in the old model of the "melting pot," but they rehabilitate it with elegant theory, persuasive facts, and careful attention to its continued racial and class-based failings. The idea of assimilation may be unfashionable, but it has the singular virtue of fitting the case--for many Americans, at any rate--more than other trendier theories do. Remaking the American Mainstream shows us how, why, and to what end.--Jennifer L. Hochschild, co-Author, The American Dream and the Public SchoolsAlba and Nee have accomplished a tour de force. They have an important story to tell and they've told it with great verve and skill, using prose that will allow this book to be widely read. Remaking the American Mainstream is an outstanding work that is truly worthy of the important topic it addresses.--Roger Waldinger, author of Still the Promised City?: African-Americans and New Immigrants in Postindustrial New YorkNo phenomenon is more central to the future shape of American life than assimilation - its contested meanings, the demand for it by established Americans, the powerful but mixed incentives for it by immigrants, its social history, and its future trajectory. Alba and Nee elucidate these crucial questions and supply provocative answers. 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