Reinventing the melting pot : the new immigrants and what it means to be American / edited by Tamar Jacoby.
| Other author | Jacoby, Tamar, 1954- |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | New York : Basic Books, ©2004. |
| Description | ix, 335 pages ; 25 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Table of contents |
| Subjects |
| 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. |
| Local note | Little-345934--305131051216S |
| General note | Includes index. |
| LCCN | 2003017575 |
| ISBN | 0465036341 |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | JV6475 .R45 2004 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |