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Sustaining Faith Traditions : Race, Ethnicity, and Religion among the Latino and Asian American Second Generation /
Over fifty years ago, Will Herberg theorized that future immigrants to the United States would no longer identify themselves through their races or ethnicities, or through the languages and cultures of their home countries. Rather, modern immigrants would base their identities on their religions. Th...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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New York :
New York University Press,
2012.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | Over fifty years ago, Will Herberg theorized that future immigrants to the United States would no longer identify themselves through their races or ethnicities, or through the languages and cultures of their home countries. Rather, modern immigrants would base their identities on their religions. The landscape of U.S. immigration has changed dramatically since Herberg first published his theory. Most of today's immigrants are Asian or Latino, and are thus unable to shed their racial and ethnic identities as rapidly as the Europeans about whom Herberg wrote. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (280 pages): illustrations |
| ISBN: | 9780814772898 |