Reinventing the melting pot
Subtitle: the new immigrants and what it means to be American
By: edited by Tamar Jacoby.
Contributors: Jacoby, Tamar, 1954-
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 335
Subjects: Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects -- United States; Immigrants -- United States -- Social conditions; Minorities -- Cultural assimilation -- United States; Assimilation (Sociology)
Description: "Hailing from across the ideological spectrum, the contributors to Reinventing the Melting Pot include distinguished social scientist, prize-winning journalists, and fiction writers-thinkers like Nathan Glazer, Herbert Gans, John McWhorter, Michael Barone, Pete Hamill, and Stanley Crouch. They consider every aspect of the issue: from how today's new arrivals are different than yesterday's to how immigrant businesses are faring in the Houston suburbs. Running through their essays is a single, common theme: although ethnicity plays a more important role now than ever before, today's newcomers can and will become Americans and enrich our national life-reinventing the melting pot and reminding us all just what it is we have in common."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Defining assimilation for the 21st century; title: The new immigrants : a progress report / Tamar Jacoby; title: The American kaleidoscope, then and now / Herbert J. Gans; title: Rediscovering the melting pot : still going strong / Stephan Thernstrom; title: Assimilation today : is one identity enough? / Nathan Glazer; title: The 21st century : an entirely new story / Roger Waldinger; title: Toward a new definition / Victor Nee, Richard Alba; title: The assimilation contract : endangered but still holding / Peter D. Salins; title: The American side of the bargain / Douglas S. Massey; title: Mexican-Americans and the mestizo melting pot / Gregory Rodriguez; title: Assimilation, the Asian way / Min Zhou; title: For the second generation, one step at a time / Alejandro Portes; title: The alloy of New York / Pete Hamill; title: Toward a post-ethnic economy / Joel Kotkin; title: Economic assimilation : trouble ahead / George J. Borjas; title: Assimilation to the American creed / Amitai Etzioni; title: "This was our riot, too" : the political assimilation of today's immigrants / Peter Skerry; title: The melting pot and the color line / Stephen Steinberg; title: Getting over identity / John McWhorter; title: New Americans after September 11 / Michael Barone; title: Goose-loose blues for the melting pot / Stanley Crouch; title: The new two-way street / Gary Shteyngart; title: What it means to be American in the 21st century / Tamar Jacoby.