| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 347 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Mexican Americans : a history of replenishment and assimilation -- Dimensions of Mexican-American assimilation -- Replenishing Mexican ethnicity -- The ties that bind and divide : ethnic boundaries and ethnic identity -- Assessing Mexican immigration : the Mexican-American perspective -- Ethnic drawbridges : unity and division with Mexican immigrants -- Conclusion. |
| Summary |
Unlike the wave of immigration that came through Ellis Island and then subsided, immigration to the United States from Mexico has been virtually uninterrupted for one hundred years. In this vividly detailed book, Tomás R. Jiménez takes us into the lives of later-generation descendents of Mexican immigrants, asking for the first time how this constant influx of immigrants from their ethnic homeland has shaped their assimilation. His nuanced investigation of this complex and little-studied phenomenon finds that continuous immigration has resulted in a vibrant ethnicity that later-generation Mexi. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Mexican Americans -- Cultural assimilation.
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Mexican Americans -- Cultural assimilation. |
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Mexican Americans. |
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Mexican Americans -- Race identity.
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Mexican Americans -- Race identity. |
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Mexicans -- Cultural assimilation -- United States.
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Mexicans -- Cultural assimilation. |
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United States. |
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Mexicans. |
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Mexicans -- Race identity -- United States.
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Mexicans -- Race identity. |
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United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects.
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Emigration and immigration. |
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Social aspects. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Title |
Mexican Americans, immigration, and identity |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Jiménez, Tomás R. (Tomás Roberto), 1975- Replenished ethnicity. Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, ©2010 9780520261419 (DLC) 2009032533 (OCoLC)430736544 |
| ISBN |
9780520946071 (electronic book) |
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0520946073 (electronic book) |
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9780520261419 (Cloth) |
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0520261410 (Cloth) |
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1282359835 |
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9781282359833 |
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