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Remaking the American Mainstream
Category: Current Events
Author: Richard Alba & Victor Nee
Copyright/published Year: 2003 by Harvard Press
ISBN: 067401040X
Binding: Cloth
Assimilation and the American Mainstream
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over time--seems outdated and, in some forms, even offensive.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.
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