The Diversity Paradox: Immigration and the Color Line in Twenty-First Century America

by Jennifer Lee, Jennifer Lee, Frank D. Bean

Book Overview

African Americans grappled with Jim Crow segregation until it was legally overturned in the 1960s. In subsequent decades, the country witnessed a new wave of immigration from Asia and Latin America--forever changing the face of American society and making it more racially diverse than ever before. In The Diversity Paradox, authors Jennifer Lee and Frank Bean take these two poles of American collective identity--the legacy of slavery and immigration--and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 087154041X
• ISBN13: 9780871540416
• Release Date: May 2010
• Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"