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Product Description: One fifth of the population of the United States belongs to the immigrant or second generations. While the US is generally thought of as the immigrant society par excellence, it now has a number of rivals in Europe. The Next Generation brings together studies from top immigration scholars to explore how the integration of immigrants affects the generations that come after...read more
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9780814707425 | New York Univ Pr, April 4, 2011, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: One fifth of the population of the United States belongs to the immigrant or second generations.
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9780814707432 | New York Univ Pr, April 4, 2011, cover price $27.00 | About this edition: One fifth of the population of the United States belongs to the immigrant or second generations.
Richard Alba argues that the social cleavages that separate Americans into distinct, unequal ethno-racial groups could narrow dramatically in the coming decades. During the mid-twentieth century, the dominant position of the United States in the postwar world economy led to a rapid expansion of education and labor opportunities. As a result of their newfound access to training and jobs, many ethnic and religious outsiders, among them Jews and Italians, finally gained full acceptance as members of the mainstream. Alba proposes that this large-scale assimilation of white ethnics was a result of ânon-zero-sum mobility,â which he defines as the social ascent of members of disadvantaged groups that can take place without affecting the life chances of those who are already members of the established majority. Alba shows that non-zero-sum mobility could play out positively in the future as the baby-boom generation retires, opening up the higher rungs of the labor market. Because of the changing demography of the country, many fewer whites will be coming of age than will be retiring. Hence, the opportunity exists for members of other groups to move up. However, Alba cautions, this demographic shift will only benefit disadvantaged American minorities if they are provided with access to education and training. In Blurring the Color Line, Alba explores a future in which socially mobile minorities could blur stark boundaries and gain much more control over the social expression of racial differences.
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9780674035133 | 1 edition (Harvard Univ Pr, September 15, 2009), cover price $32.50 | About this edition: Richard Alba argues that the social cleavages that separate Americans into distinct, unequal ethno-racial groups could narrow dramatically in the coming decades.
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9780674064706 | Harvard Univ Pr, March 5, 2012, cover price $23.00
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9780674010406 | Harvard Univ Pr, July 15, 2003, cover price $58.50
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9780674018136 | Harvard Univ Pr, September 30, 2005, cover price $28.50
Product Description: This book examines contemporary attitudes towards ethnic minorities in Germany. These minorities include some of immigrant origin, such as Italians, Turks, and asylum seekers, and the principal non-immigrant minority, Jews. While the findings demonstrate that intense prejudice against minorities is not widespread among Germans, many of whom in fact can be considered immigrant- and minority-friendly, a crystallization of attitudes is also evident: that is, attitudes towards immigrants are strongly correlated with anti-Semitism and with other worldview dimensions, such as positioning in the left-right political spectrum...read more
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9781403963789 | Palgrave Macmillan, January 3, 2004, cover price $120.00 | About this edition: This book examines contemporary attitudes towards ethnic minorities in Germany.
Product Description: This collection of articles examines the complex nature of identity in the Italian-American community. Sorrentino and Krase have constructed a volume that covers topics of diverse interest, such as the development of Italian-American literary studies and the integration of a uniquely Italian-American sensibility into a larger and dominant idea of European American culture...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780739101599 | Lexington Books, November 1, 2000, cover price $120.00 | About this edition: This collection of articles examines the complex nature of identity in the Italian-American community.
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9780300047370 | Yale Univ Pr, September 1, 1990, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Examines the implications of intermarriages between white Americans of differing ethnic backgrounds and looks at this new culture
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9780300052213 | Reprint edition (Yale Univ Pr, January 29, 1992), cover price $39.00 | About this edition: Examines the implications of intermarriages between white Americans of differing ethnic backgrounds and looks at this new culture
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9780415007726 | Reprint edition (Routledge, May 1, 1988), cover price $15.95 | also contains My Double Life
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9780135066768 | Prentice Hall, January 1, 1985, cover price $27.70 | also contains Ultradian Rhythms from Molecules to Mind: A New Vision of Life
Product Description: Applied Network Analysis is a reference book on the methodology of network analysis -- the study of the structure of relations between people, groups or formal organizations. Illustrations from real research show the problems that arise in network analysis -- and how to resolve or avoid them...read more
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9780803919075 | Sage Pubns, January 1, 1983, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Applied Network Analysis is a reference book on the methodology of network analysis -- the study of the structure of relations between people, groups or formal organizations.
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