TY - BOOK AU - Jacoby,Tamar TI - Reinventing the melting pot: the new immigrants and what it means to be American SN - 0465036341 AV - JV6475 U1 - 304.873 PY - 2004/// CY - New York, NY PB - Basic Books KW - Immigrants KW - United States KW - Social conditions KW - Assimilation (Sociology) KW - Emigration and immigration KW - Social aspects KW - Assimilation Sociology KW - Class of Fall 2010 KW - Bosch Fellow in Public Policy KW - Fellow N1 - Includes index; 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 UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip047/2003017575.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0832/2003017575-b.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0832/2003017575-d.html ER -