Remaking the American Mainstream: Assimilation and Contemporary Immigration

by Richard D. Alba and Victor Nee

Book Overview

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distance separating immigrants and their children from the mainstream of American society closes over time--seems outdated and, in some forms, even offensive.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

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674018133
• ISBN13: 9780674018136
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.3"