TY  - BOOK
AU  - Alba,Richard D.
AU  - Nee,Victor
TI  - Remaking the American mainstream: assimilation and contemporary immigration 
SN  - 067401040X (cloth : alk. paper)
AV  - JV6475 .A433 2003
U1  - 303.48/273 21
PY  - 2003///
CY  - Cambridge, Massachusetts
PB  - Harvard University Press
KW  - Americanization
KW  - Immigrants
KW  - United States
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Emigration and immigration
KW  - Social aspects
N1  - Includes index; 	Winner of Thomas and Znaniecki Book Award 2004
Nominated for Robert E. Park Award 2004
Nominated for Best Book Award in Race, Ethnicity, and Politics 2004
Nominated for Asia and Asian American Section Outstanding Book Award 2004
Nominated for Allan Sharlin Memorial Award 2004
Nominated for PROSE Awards 2003
Nominated for Theodore Saloutos Memorial Book Award 2004
Nominated for Otis Dudley Duncan Award 2003; Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-349); 
1  Rethinking Assimilation  1
2  Assimilation Theory, Old and New  17
3  Assimilation in Practice:
    The Europeans and East Asians  67
4  Was Assimilation Contingent on
    Specific Historical Conditions?  124
5  The Background to Contemporary Immigration  167
6  Evidence of Contemporary Assimilation  215
7  Conclusion: Remaking the Mainstream  271


N2  - 	
"In this era 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distance separating immigrants and their children from the mainstream of American society closes over time - seems outdated. 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."
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy041/2002191300.html
ER  -