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Author Hing, Bill Ong.

Title To be an American : cultural pluralism and the rhetoric of assimilation / Bill Ong Hing.

Publication Info. New York : New York University Press, [1997]
©1997

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  E184.A1 H54 1997    Available  ---
Description xi, 243 pages ; 24 cm.
Series Critical America
Critical America.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 192-236) and index.
Contents A superior multicultural experience -- A nation of immigrants, a history of nativism -- Mi cliente y amigo Rodolfo Martinez Padilla -- Searching for the truth about immigrants and jobs -- How much do immigrants cost? The methodology wars -- Contextualizing immigration -- Low-wage immigrants and African Americans -- Beyond the economic debate : the cultural complaint -- The challenge to cultural pluralists : inter-ethnic group conflict and separatism -- A new way of looking at America -- Back to superior.
Subject Cultural pluralism -- United States.
Cultural pluralism.
United States.
Immigrants -- United States.
Immigrants.
Acculturation -- United States.
Acculturation.
United States -- Ethnic relations.
Ethnic relations.
ISBN 0814735231 alkaline paper