By David W. Haines,Carol Mortland
At the flip of the century, the US is either retrenching and increasing, changing into extra restrictive and extra expansive, extra utilitarian and, extra worth- and religion-oriented. As was once actual a century in the past, the movement of those alterations is particularly a lot a narrative of immigrants, their lives in the USA, and the altering lives of these they sign up for. This publication examines the interplay of immigrants and the native-born in 9 broadly various locales, together with Richmond, VA, St. Louis, West Palm seashore, FL, Tacoma, WA, backyard urban, KS, Dallas, Phoenix, San Francisco, and long island City.
The quantity considers a huge diversity of immigrants from well-educated and economically winning chinese language and Indians, to legally well-known refugees, who usually have extra trouble accommodating to U.S. society, to unlawful immigrants, who're being Americanized to a shadow global of restricted chance and restricted safety. via perception into the interactions among immigrants and native-born on the neighborhood point, the authors jointly caricature an the USA that's altering but additionally re-creating its past.
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