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Author | : Eileen Tamura |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780252063589 |
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"The main theme of this book is the interplay of Americanization and acculturation of the Japanese in the Hawaiian Islands. By acculturation the author refers to what the Nisei wanted and actually did achieve-their adaptation to American middle-class life" -- Preface.
Author | : David A.J. Richards |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 1999-07-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0814775209 |
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When southern Italians began emigrating to the U.S. in large numbers in the 1870s-part of the "new immigration" from southern and eastern rather than northern Europe-they were seen as racially inferior, what David A. J. Richards terms "nonvisibly" black. The first study of its kind, Italian American explores the acculturation process of Italian immigrants in terms of then-current patterns of European and American racism. Delving into the political and legal context of flawed liberal nationalism both in Italy (the Risorgimento) and the United States (Reconstruction Amendments), Richards examines why Italian Americans were so reluctant to influence depictions of themselves and their own collective identity. He argues that American racism could not have had the durability or political power it has had either in the popular understanding or in the corruption of constitutional ideals unless many new immigrants, themselves often regarded as racially inferior, had been drawn into accepting and supporting many of the terms of American racism. With its unprecedented focus on Italian American identity and an interdisciplinary approach to comparative culture and law, this timely study sheds important light on the history and contemporary importance of identity and multicultural politics in American political and constitutional debate.
Author | : John J. Miller |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Acculturation |
ISBN | : 068483622X |
Download The Unmaking of Americans Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Immigrants have always adopted America's ideological principles and striven to become "American". But now there is a war against the whole notion of assimilation; newcomers are encouraged to maintain their own separate cultural identity. In the tradition of Arthur Schlesinger's "The Disuniting of America", this commonsense manifesto promotes renewing the assimilation ethic in America.
Author | : George E. Pozzetta |
Publisher | : Articles-Garlan |
Total Pages | : 472 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : |
Download Ethnicity, Ethnic Identity, and Language Maintenance Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Sherrow O. Pinder |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 2010-04-14 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0230106692 |
Download The Politics of Race and Ethnicity in the United States Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The purpose of this book is to examine and analyze Americanization, De-Americanization, and racialized ethnic groups in America and consider the questions: who is an American? And what constitutes American identity and culture?
Author | : Richard D. Alba |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 2009-06-30 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780674020115 |
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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 American society closes over time--seems outdated and, in some forms, even offensive. But as Richard Alba and Victor Nee show in the first systematic treatment of assimilation since the mid-1960s, it continues to shape the immigrant experience, even though the geography of immigration has shifted from Europe to Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Institutional changes, from civil rights legislation to immigration law, have provided a more favorable environment for nonwhite immigrants and their children than in the past. Assimilation is still driven, in claim, by the decisions of immigrants and the second generation to improve their social and material circumstances in America. But they also show that immigrants, historically and today, have profoundly changed our mainstream society and culture in the process of becoming Americans. Surveying a variety of domains--language, socioeconomic attachments, residential patterns, and intermarriage--they demonstrate the continuing importance of assimilation in American life. And they predict that it will blur the boundaries among the major, racially defined populations, as nonwhites and Hispanics are increasingly incorporated into the mainstream.
Author | : Shannon Latkin Anderson |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 2015-11-19 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1317328760 |
Download Immigration, Assimilation, and the Cultural Construction of American National Identity Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Over the course of the 20th century, there have been three primary narratives of American national identity: the melting pot, Anglo-Protestantism, and cultural pluralism/multi-culturalism. This book offers a social and historical perspective on what shaped each of these imaginings, when each came to the fore, and which appear especially relevant early in the 21st century. These issues are addressed by looking at the United States and elite notions of the meaning of America across the 20th century, centering on the work of Horace Kallen, Nathan Glazer and Daniel Patrick Moynihan, and Samuel P. Huntington. Four structural areas are examined in each period: the economy, involvement in foreign affairs, social movements, and immigration. What emerges is a narrative arc whereby immigration plays a clear and crucial role in shaping cultural stories of national identity as written by elite scholars. These stories are represented in writings throughout all three periods, and in such work we see the intellectual development and specification of the dominant narratives, along with challenges to each. Important conclusions include a keen reminder that identities are often formed along borders both external and internal, that structure and culture operate dialectically, and that national identity is hardly a monolithic, static formation.
Author | : Jeffrey Mirel |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 2010-04-30 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9780674046382 |
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In this book, leading historian of education Jeffrey E. Mirel retells a story we think we know, in which public schools forced a draconian Americanization on the great waves of immigration of a century ago. Ranging from the 1890s through the World War II years, Mirel argues that Americanization was a far more nuanced and negotiated process from the start, much shaped by immigrants themselves.Drawing from detailed descriptions of Americanization programs for both schoolchildren and adults in three cities (Chicago, Cleveland, and Detroit) and from extensive analysis of foreign-language newspapers, Mirel shows how immigrants confronted different kinds of Americanization. When native-born citizens contemptuously tried to force them to forsake their home religions, languages, or histories, immigrants pushed back strongly. While they passionately embraced key aspects of Americanization—the English language, American history, democratic political ideas, and citizenship—they also found in American democracy a defense of their cultural differences. In seeing no conflict between their sense of themselves as Italians, or Germans, or Poles, and Americans, they helped to create a new and inclusive vision of this country.Mirel vividly retells the epic story of one of the great achievements of American education, which has profound implications for the Americanization of immigrants today.
Author | : George E. Pozzetta |
Publisher | : Garland Publishing |
Total Pages | : 378 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : |
Download Assimilation, Acculturation, and Social Mobility Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Deborah J. Schildkraut |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 2010-11-15 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 113949211X |
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This book explores public opinion about being and becoming American, and its implications for contemporary immigration debates. It focuses on the causes and consequences of two aspects of American identity: how people define being American and whether people think of themselves primarily as American rather than as members of a panethnic or national origin group. Importantly, the book evaluates the claim – made by scholars and pundits alike – that all Americans should prioritize their American identity instead of an ethnic or national origin identity. It finds that national identity within American democracy can be a blessing or a curse. It can enhance participation, trust, and obligation. But it can be a curse when perceptions of deviation lead to threat and resentment. It can also be a curse for minorities who are attached to their American identity but also perceive discrimination.