To be an American
Subtitle: cultural pluralism and the rhetoric of assimilation
By: Bill Ong Hing.
Series: Critical America
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 243
Subjects: Pluralism (Social sciences) -- United States; Immigrants -- United States; Acculturation -- United States; United States -- Ethnic relations
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 192-236) and index.
Table of contents: title: A superior multicultural experience; title: A nation of immigrants, a history of nativism; title: Mi cliente y amigo Rodolfo Martinez Padilla; title: Searching for the truth about immigrants and jobs; title: How much do immigrants cost? The methodology wars; title: Contextualizing immigration; title: Low-wage immigrants and African Americans; title: Beyond the economic debate : the cultural complaint; title: The challenge to cultural pluralists : inter-ethnic group conflict and separatism; title: A new way of looking at America; title: Back to superior.