Reinventing the melting pot  the new immigrants and what it means to be American 
edited by Tamar Jacoby 
 - IX, 335 S.  24 cm 
<br/><br/> Includes index 
<br/><br/>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 Albatoward -- 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 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0465036341  (hc) 046503635X  $17.95 9780465036356 
<br/><br/><label>Standard No.: </label>9780465036356 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2003017575 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Immigrants--Social conditions--United States<br/>Assimilation (Sociology)--United States<br/>Emigration and immigration--Social aspects--United States<br/>Immigrants--United States--Social conditions<br/>Assimilation Sociology--United States
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>United States--Emigration and immigration--Social aspects
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Class of Fall 2010 Bosch Fellow in Public Policy Fellow 
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>JV6475 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>304.873 304.8/73