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The impetus behind California's Proposition 187 clearly reflects the growing anti-immigrant sentiment in this country. Many Americans regard today's new immigrants as not truly American, as somehow less committed to the ideals on which the country was founded. In clear, precise terms, Bill...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hing, Bill Ong
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : NYU Press, 1997.
Colección:Critical America.
Temas:
Cultural pluralism > United States.
Immigrants > United States.
Acculturation > United States.
Diversité culturelle > États-Unis.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
Acculturation
Cultural pluralism
Ethnic relations
Immigrants
United States > Ethnic relations.
États-Unis > Relations interethniques.
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • 1. A superior multicultural experience
  • 2. A nation of immigrants, a history of nativism
  • 3. Mi Cliente y Amigo Rodolfo Martinez Padilla
  • 4. Searching for the truth about immigrants and jobs
  • 5. How much do immigrants cost? the methodology wars
  • 6. Contextualizing immigration
  • 7 .Low-wage immigrants and African Americans
  • 8. Beyond the economic debate: the cultural complaint
  • 9. The challenge to cultural pluralists: interethnic group conflict and separatism
  • 10. A new way of looking at America
  • 11. Back to superior.

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