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Replenished Ethnicity: Mexican Americans, Immigration, and Identity
Tomas Jimenez
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Description for Replenished Ethnicity: Mexican Americans, Immigration, and Identity
Paperback. 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. This book takes us into the lives of later-generation descendants of Mexican immigrants. It sheds light on America's largest ethnic group. Num Pages: 366 pages, 6 line illustrations, 8 tables. BIC Classification: JFFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 498.
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, Tomas R. Jimenez takes us into the lives of later-generation descendants 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 Mexican Americans describe as both costly and beneficial. "Replenished Ethnicity" sheds new light ... Read more
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, Tomas R. Jimenez takes us into the lives of later-generation descendants 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 Mexican Americans describe as both costly and beneficial. "Replenished Ethnicity" sheds new light ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
366
Condition
New
Number of Pages
366
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520261426
SKU
V9780520261426
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About Tomas Jimenez
Tomas R. Jimenez is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Stanford University and an Irvine Fellow at the New America Foundation.
Reviews for Replenished Ethnicity: Mexican Americans, Immigration, and Identity
"Convincing and well documented... A significant addition to assimilation theory."
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