Incorporating Diversity: Rethinking Assimilation in a Multicultural Age

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Overview

Societies today are increasingly characterized by their ethnic, racial, and religious diversity. One key question raised by the global migration of people is how they do or do not come to be incorporated into their new social environments. For over a century, assimilation has been the concept used in explaining the processes of immigrant incorporation into a new society. It has also been applied to indigenous peoples, to refugees, and to involuntary migrants caught up in the slave trade. Assimilation has confronted many scholarly challenges which were often intermeshed with particular political agendas.

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781594510809
  • Publisher: Paradigm Publishers
  • Publication date: 5/28/2005
  • Pages: 256
  • Product dimensions: 6.36 (w) x 9.32 (h) x 1.14 (d)

Meet the Author

Peter Kivisto is the Richard Swanson Professor of Social Thought and Chair of Sociology at Augustana College. Among his recent books are Key Ideas in Sociology, 2nd edition (2004) and Multiculturalism in a Global Society (2002).

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Table of Contents

I Introduction
1 The revival of assimilation in historical perspective 3
II The classical formulation
2 Racial assimilation in secondary groups with particular reference to the Negro 33
3 The American Ethnic Group 47
4 Assimilation into the larger society 59
5 American immigrant groups : ethnic identification and the problem of generations 82
6 The nature of assimilation 95
III Assimilation revisited
7 Is assimilation dead? 113
8 In defense of the assimilation model 128
9 Toward a reconciliation of "assimilation" and "pluralism" : the interplay of acculturation and ethnic retention 138
10 The melting and the pot : assimilation and variety in American life 154
11 Assimilation and dissimilation 174
12 Race, religion, and nationality in American society : a model of ethnicity - from contact to assimilation 189
IV New directions
13 The new second generation : segmented assimilation and its variants 213
14 Rethinking assimilation theory for a new era of immigration 235
15 Migration and community formation under conditions of globalization 277
16 Social spaces, transnational immigrant communities, and the politics of incorporation 299
17 Theorizing the "modes of incorporation" : assimilation, hyphenization, and multiculturalism as varieties of civic participation 320
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