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Author Hing, Bill Ong, author.

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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 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description 1 online resource (xi, 243 pages).
text rdacontent
computer rdamedia
online resource rdacarrier
Series Critical America
Critical America.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references 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.
Note Description based on print version record.
Subject Cultural pluralism -- United States.
Immigrants -- United States.
Acculturation -- United States.
United States -- Ethnic relations.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Hing, Bill Ong. To be an American : cultural pluralism and the rhetoric of assimilation. New York : New York University Press, [1997] xi, 243 pages ; 24 cm. Critical America 9780814735237 (DLC) 96035678
ISBN 0814735231 (alk. paper)
9780814735237
9780814744840 (e-book)

 
    
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