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| Format | Book Whole |
|---|---|
| Author, Monographic | Salins, Peter D. |
| Title, Monographic | Assimilation, american style |
| Place of Publication | New York, N.Y. |
| Publisher | BasicBooks |
| Date of Publication | 1997 |
| Extent of Work | 259 |
| Abstract | Salins advances our understanding of assimilation in two important ways. He convincingly shows how America's unique social compact of assimilation has permitted immigrants and their descendants to hold on to their ethnic traditions even as they acquired an American identity. He also documents the dire ramifications of our retreat from the ideal of assimilation in recent decades, countering the multi-culturalists who ask ethnic Americans to reject assimilation in favor of ethnic separatism, and the nativists who reject further immigration altogether. |
| Notes | Second title on book cover: An impassioned defense of immigration and assimilation as the foundation of American greatness and the American dream ; book, in MadCat. |
| Call Number | MKI/MEM/COLL E169.1 S198 1997 |
| MKI Terms | United States/ Assimilation/ Immigrants |