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Reinventing the melting pot : the new immigrants and what it means to be American / edited by Tamar Jacoby.

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New York : Basic Books, c2004.

Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects -- United States.

Immigrants -- United States -- Social conditions.

Assimilation (Sociology) -- United States.

ix, 335 p. ; 24 cm.

Defining assimilation for the 21st century -- The new immigrants : a progress report / Tamar Jacoby -- The American kaleidoscope, then and now / Herbert J. Gans -- Rediscovering the melting pot : still going strong / Stephan Thernstrom -- Assimilation today : is one identity enough? / Nathan Glazer -- The 21st century : an entirely new story / Roger Waldinger -- Toward new definition / Victor Nee, Richard Alba -- The assimilation contract : endangered but still holding / Peter D. Salins -- The American side of the bargain / Douglas S. Massey -- Mexican-Americans and the mestizo melting pot / Gregory Rodriguez -- Assimilation, the Asian way / Min Zhou -- For the second generation, one step at a time / Alejandro Portes -- The alloy of New York / Pete Hamill -- Toward a post-ethnic economy / Joel Kotkin -- Economic assimilation : trouble ahead / George J. Borjas -- Assimilation to the American creed / Amitai Etzioni -- "This was our riot, too" : the political assimilation of today's immigrants / Peter Skerry -- The melting pot and the color line / Stephen Steinberg -- Getting over identity / John McWhorter -- New Americans after September 11 / Michael Barone -- Goose-loose blues for the melting pot / Stanley Crouch -- The new two-way street / Gary Shteyngart -- What it means to be american in the 21st century / Tamar Jacoby.

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