Incorporating diversity : rethinking assimilation in a multicultural age / edited by Peter Kivisto.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kivisto, Peter, 1948-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Assimilation (Sociology).

Cultural pluralism.

Multiculturalism.

Immigrants--United States.

Immigrants.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (359 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Routledge, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

As the best single-source collection of classic and contemporary readings on the subject, this anthology will be a valuable reference to scholars of immigration, race and ethnicity, national identity, and the history of ideas, and indispensable for courses in history and the social sciences dealing with these topics.' Ruben G. Rumbaut, co-author of Immigrant America: A Portrait and Legacies: The Story of the Immigrant Second Generation Societies today are increasingly characterized by their ethnic, racial, and religious diversity. One key question raised by the global migration of people is how they do or do not come to be incorporated into their new social environments. For over a century, assimilation has been the concept used in explaining the processes of immigrant incorporation into a new society. It has also been applied to indigenous peoples, to refugees, and to involuntary migrants caught up in the slave trade. Assimilation has confronted many scholarly challenges which were often intermeshed with particular political agendas. This book allows readers to obtain a clearer sense of the canonical formulation of assimilation theory and an understanding of the key themes and issues contained in current efforts to rethink and revise the classical perspective for today's changing world.

Contents:

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; I. Introduction; 1 The Revival of Assimilation in Historical Perspective; II. The Classical Formulation; 2 Racial Assimilation in Secondary Groups with Particular Reference to the Negro; 3 The American Ethnic Group; 4 Assimilation into the Larger Society; 5 American Immigrant Groups: Ethnic Identification and the Problem of Generations; 6 The Nature of Assimilation; III. Assimilation Revisited; 7 Is Assimilation Dead?; 8 In Defense of the Assimilation Model

9 Toward a Reconciliation of "Assimilation" and "Pluralism": The Interplay of Acculturation and Ethnic Retention10 The Melting and the Pot: Assimilation and Variety in American Life; 11 Assimilation and Dissimilation; 12 Race, Religion, and Nationality in American Society: A Model of Ethnicity-From Contact to Assimilation; IV. New Directions; 13 The New Second Generation: Segmented Assimilation and Its Variants; 14 Rethinking Assimilation Theory for a New Era of Immigration; 15 Migration and Community Formation under Conditions of Globalization

16 Social Spaces, Transnational Immigrant Communities, and the Politics of Incorporation17 Theorizing the "Modes of Incorporation": Assimilation, Hyphenization, and Multiculturalism as Varieties of Civic Participation; Index; About the Editor

Notes:

First published 2005 by Paradigm Publishers.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed January 28, 2016).

ISBN:

1-317-25764-2

1-317-25763-4

1-315-63397-3

9781315633978

OCLC:

932339206