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Reinventing the Melting Pot: The New Immigrants and What it Means to be American (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 72 hours | |Short Description for Reinventing the Melting PotTwo dozen of the nation's top experts answer the question: Can the melting pot work today, as it did in the past, to forge a new America?
Full description- Publisher: BASIC BOOKS
- Published: 30 November 2004
- Format: Paperback 352 pages
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- Categories: Migration, Immigration & Emigration | Ethnic Studies | Physical Anthropology & Ethnography
- ISBN 13: 9780465036356 ISBN 10: 046503635X
- Sales rank: 1,104,294
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Full description for Reinventing the Melting Pot
In Reinventing the Melting Pot, twenty-one of the writers who have thought longest and hardest about American immigration come together around a surprising consensus They conclude that immigrant absorption still works - and given the number of newcomers arriving in the US today, the nation's future depends on it. On the other hand they believe that immigration need not be incompatible with ethnic identity - and that as a nation America needs to find new ways to talk about and encourage becoming American. In the wake of 9/11 it couldn't be more important to help these newcomers find a way to fit in. Running through these essays is a single common theme: although ethnicity plays a more important role now than ever before, today's newcomers can and will become American
