{"product_id":"remaking-the-american-mainstream-assimilation-and-contemporary-immigration-9780674018136","title":"Remaking the American Mainstream: Assimilation and Contemporary Immigration","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this age of multicultural democracy  the idea of assimilation--that the social distance separating immigrants and their children from the mainstream of American society closes over time--seems outdated and  in some forms  even offensive. But as Richard Alba and Victor Nee show in the first systematic treatment of assimilation since the mid-1960s  it continues to shape the immigrant experience  even though the geography of immigration has shifted from Europe to Asia  Africa  and Latin America. Institutional changes  from civil rights legislation to immigration law  have provided a more favorable environment for nonwhite immigrants and their children than in the past.  Assimilation is still driven  in claim  by the decisions of immigrants and the second generation to improve their social and material circumstances in America. But they also show that immigrants  historically and today  have profoundly changed our mainstream society and culture in the process of becoming Americans.  Surveying a variety of domains--language  socioeconomic attachments  residential patterns  and intermarriage--they demonstrate the continuing importance of assimilation in American life. And they predict that it will blur the boundaries among the major  racially defined populations  as nonwhites and Hispanics are increasingly incorporated into the mainstream.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45648011100213,"sku":"ByrdShop_0674018133","price":26.76,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780674018136.jpg?v=1781706235","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/remaking-the-american-mainstream-assimilation-and-contemporary-immigration-9780674018136","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}