Reinventing the melting pot : the new immigrants and what it means to be American /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Jacoby, Tamar, 1954-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Basic Books, [2004]
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Online Access:Table of contents
Table of Contents:
  • Then and now / Herbert J. Gansthe
  • American kaleidoscope, then and now / Stephan Thernstrom
  • Rediscovering the melting pot : still going strong / Nathan Glazer
  • Assimilation today: is one identity enough? / Roger Waldinger
  • The 21st century: an entirely new story / Victor Nee, Richard Albatoward
  • A new definition
  • The immigrant bargain / Peter D. Salins
  • The assimilation contract - endangered but still holding / Douglas S. Massey
  • The American side of the bargain
  • what works / Gregory Rodriguez
  • Mexican-Americans and the mestizo melting pot / Min Zhou
  • Assimilation, the Asian way / Alejandro Portes
  • For the second generation, one step at a time / Pete Hamill
  • The alloy of New York
  • Economics and politics / Joel Kotkin
  • Toward a post-ethnic economy / George J. Borjas
  • Economic assimilation: trouble ahead / Amitai Etzioni
  • Assimilation to the American creed / Peter Skerry
  • "This was our riot, too": political assimilation today
  • Race: the exception or the rule? / Stephen Steinberg
  • For immigrants - but not blacks / John McWhorter
  • Getting over identity
  • What it means to be American / Michael Barone
  • New Americans after September 11 / Stanley Crouch
  • Goose-loose blues for the melting pot / Gary Shteyngart
  • The new two-way street / Tamar Jacoby
  • What it means to be American in the 21st century.