The Other Side of Assimilation (eBook)

How Immigrants Are Changing American Life

Tomas Jimenez (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2017
296 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
9780520968370 (ISBN)

Infos

The immigration patterns of the last three decades have profoundly changed nearly every aspect of life in the United States. What do those changes mean for the most established Americans—those whose families have been in the country for multiple generations?
 
The Other Side of Assimilation shows that assimilation is not a one-way street. Jiménez explains how established Americans undergo their own assimilation in response to profound immigration-driven ethnic, racial, political, economic, and cultural shifts. Drawing on interviews with a race and class spectrum of established Americans in three different Silicon Valley cities, The Other Side of Assimilation illuminates how established Americans make sense of their experiences in immigrant-rich environments, in work, school, public interactions, romantic life, and leisure activities. With lucid prose, Jiménez reveals how immigration not only changes the American cityscape but also reshapes the United States by altering the outlooks and identities of its most established citizens. 

Inhalt

List of Illustrations and Table
Preface
Acknowledgments

Introduction
1. The (Not-So-Strange) Strangers in Their Midst
2. Salsa and Ketchup—Cultural Exposure and Adoption
3. Spotlight on White, Fade to Black
4. Living with Difference and Similarity
5. Living Locally, Thinking Nationally
Conclusion

Notes
Works Cited
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 18.7.2017
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
• Schlagworte: daca • established citizens • established immigrants • human rights advocate • immigrant-rich environment • Immigration studies • influence of immigrants • Nationalism • Political Science Major • Silicon Valley • us immigrant relations • Xenophobia
• ISBN-13: 9780520968370 / 9780520968370