Remaking the American mainstream : assimilation and contemporary immigration / Richard Alba, Victor Nee

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distance separating immigrants and their children from the mainstream of American society closes over time - seems outdated and, in some forms, even offensive.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

Topic: Americanization; Immigrants--Social conditions; Emigration and immigration; Social aspects