Title: Replenished ethnicity
First published: 2010
Description: Unlike the wave of immigration that came through Ellis Island and then subsided, immigration to the United States from Mexico has been virtually uninterrupted for one hundred years. In this vividly detailed book, Tomás R. Jiménez takes us into the lives of later-generation descendents of Mexican immigrants, asking for the first time how this constant influx of immigrants from their ethnic homeland has shaped their assimilation. His nuanced investigation of this complex and little-studied phenomenon finds that continuous immigration has resulted in a vibrant ethnicity that later-generation Mexi.
Subjects: Mexican Americans, Cultural assimilation, Race identity, Mexicans, Emigration and immigration, Social aspects, Mexicans, united states, United states, emigration and immigration
LC classification: E184.M5 J56 2010