Remaking the American mainstream
Subtitle: assimilation and contemporary immigration
By: Richard Alba, Victor Nee.
Contributors: Nee, Victor, 1945-
Edition: 1st Harvard University Press pbk. ed.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 359
Subjects: Americanization.; Immigrants -- United States -- Social conditions.; United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects.
Notes: Originally published in hardcover: 2003.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-349) and index.
Table of contents: title: Rethinking assimilation; title: Assimilation theory, old and new; title: Assimilation in practice : the Europeans and East Asians; title: Was assimilation contingent on specific historical conditions?; title: The background to contemporary immigration; title: Evidence of contemporary assimilation; title: Remaking the mainstream.