Ethnicities: Children of Immigrants in America

by Alejandro Portes

Book Overview

The new immigration to the United States is unprecedented in its diversity of color, class, and cultural origins. Over the past few decades, the racial and ethnic composition and stratification of the American population-as well as the social meanings of race, ethnicity, and American identity-have fundamentally changed. Ethnicities, a companion volume to Rub n G. Rumbaut's and Alejandro Portes's Legacies: The Story of the Immigrant Second...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520230124
• ISBN13: 9780520230125
• Release Date: September 2001
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 353 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"