The other side of assimilation : how immigrants are changing American life / Tomás R. Jiménez

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jiménez, Tomás R. (Tomás Roberto), 1975- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

City dwellers--Cultural assimilation--California--Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County).

City dwellers.

Immigrants--California--Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County).

Immigrants.

Assimilation (Sociology)--California--Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County).

Assimilation (Sociology).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (294 pages) : illustrations, maps

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2017]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

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

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 20. Sep 2019)

ISBN:

9780520968370

0520968379

OCLC:

990142049