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Remaking the American Mainstream
Language: en
Pages: 388
Authors: Richard D. Alba
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-06-30 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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In this age of multicultural democracy, the idea of assimilation--that the social distance separating immigrants and their children from the mainstream of Ameri
Remaking the American Mainstream
Language: en
Pages: 359
Authors: Richard D. Alba
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005 - Publisher:

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In this age of multicultural democracy, the idea of assimilation seems outdated and, in some forms, even offensive. But as Richard Alba and Victor Nee show in t
America's Newcomers and the Dynamics of Diversity
Language: en
Pages: 327
Authors: Frank D. Bean
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003-05-01 - Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation

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The attacks of September 11, 2001, facilitated by easy entry and lax immigration controls, cast into bold relief the importance and contradictions of U.S. immig
Immigration and Religion in America
Language: en
Pages: 414
Authors: Richard Alba
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009 - Publisher: NYU Press

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Religion has played a crucial role in American immigration history as an institutional resource for migrants' social adaptation, as a map of meaning for interpr
Blurring the Color Line
Language: en
Pages: 321
Authors: Richard Alba
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-03-05 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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Richard Alba argues that the social cleavages that separate Americans into distinct, unequal ethno-racial groups could narrow dramatically in the coming decades