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Title Transforming politics, transforming America [electronic resource] : the political and civic incorporation of immigrants in the United States / edited by Taeku Lee, S. Karthick Ramakrishnan, and Ricardo Ramirez.

Imprint Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2006.

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Description x, 307 p. : ill.
Series Race, ethnicity, and politics
Note Based on a conference on "A Nation of Immigrants: Ethnic Identity and Political Incorporation" held in May 2003 in Berkeley, Calif.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-297) and index.
Contents Introduction / Taeku Lee, S. Karthick Ramakrishnan, and Ricardo Ramirez -- Immigrants and the changing categories of race / Kenneth Prewitt -- Mobilizing group consciousness : when does ethnicity have political consequences? / Jane Junn -- Rethinking citizenship : noncitizen voting and immigrant political engagement in the United States / Lisa Garcia Bedolla -- Jus meritum : citizenship for service / Cara Wong and Grace Cho -- The impact of dual nationality on political participation / Bruce Cain and Brendan Doherty -- Transnational politics and civic engagement : do home-country political ties limit Latino immigrant pursuit of U.S. civic engagement and citizenship? / Louis DeSipio -- Out of line : immigration and party identification among Latinos and Asian Americans / Zoltan Hajnal and Taeku Lee -- Nonpartisan Latino and Asian American contactability and voter mobilization / Ricardo Ramirez and Janelle Wong -- Politics among young adults in New York : the immigrant second generation / John Mollenkopf ... [et al.] -- Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose? : an examination of the racial attitudes of new immigrants in the United States / Tatishe Mavovosi Nteta -- The political assimilation of the fourth wave / Kathryn Pearson and Jack Citrin -- But do they bowl? : race, immigrant incorporation, and civic voluntarism in the United States / S. Karthick Ramakrishnan -- Conclusions / Taeku Lee, S. Karthick Ramakrishnan, and Ricardo Ramirez.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Immigrants -- Political activity -- United States -- Congresses.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Lee, Taeku.
Ramakrishnan, S. Karthick (Subramanian Karthick), 1975-
Ramirez, Ricardo, 1973-
ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 0813925452 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780813925455
9780813934204 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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