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- catalog abstract ""Sometime in this century, we are told, the United States will become a "majority-minority" country - that is, a nation where whites make up less than 50 percent of the population. Many believe this signals a fundamental change in America. Does it? Is the Melting Pot a thing of the past?" "Absolutely not, says political historian Michael Barone. In The New Americans, Barone reminds us that the United States has never been a homogeneous, monoethnic nation. He reveals how the new Americans of today can be interwoven into the fabric of American life just as immigrants have been interwoven throughout U.S. history." "Barone demonstrates the startling and important similarities between today's new Americans and nineteenth-century immigrant groups: "in many ways," he writes, "blacks resemble Irish, Latinos resemble Italians, Asians resemble Jews." We need to recognize such similarities and learn from America's success in assimilating earlier immigrants, as well as from the mistakes that were made along the way." "Barone shows that the biggest mistake we can make is to act as if we are at a wholly new place in history; "America in the future will be multiracial and multiethnic, but it will not - or should not - be multicultural in the sense of containing ethnic communities marked off from and adversarial to the larger society, any more than today's America consists of unassimilated and adversarial communities of Irish, Italians, or Jews." He also refutes the notion that the situation today is different because today's minorities are of different races; as he points out, "a hundred years ago the Irish, Italians, and Jews were considered to be other races" as well." "If we heed the lessons of America's past and avoid misguided policies and programs that hinder rather than help assimilation - the Melting Pot will work as well as it always has."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12122847.
- catalog coverage "United States Emigration and immigration History.".
- catalog coverage "United States Emigration and immigration.".
- catalog created "c2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "c2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
- catalog description ""Barone demonstrates the startling and important similarities between today's new Americans and nineteenth-century immigrant groups: "in many ways," he writes, "blacks resemble Irish, Latinos resemble Italians, Asians resemble Jews." We need to recognize such similarities and learn from America's success in assimilating earlier immigrants, as well as from the mistakes that were made along the way."".
- catalog description ""Barone shows that the biggest mistake we can make is to act as if we are at a wholly new place in history; "America in the future will be multiracial and multiethnic, but it will not - or should not - be multicultural in the sense of containing ethnic communities marked off from and adversarial to the larger society, any more than today's America consists of unassimilated and adversarial communities of Irish, Italians, or Jews." He also refutes the notion that the situation today is different because today's minorities are of different races; as he points out, "a hundred years ago the Irish, Italians, and Jews were considered to be other races" as well."".
- catalog description ""If we heed the lessons of America's past and avoid misguided policies and programs that hinder rather than help assimilation - the Melting Pot will work as well as it always has."--Jacket.".
- catalog description ""Sometime in this century, we are told, the United States will become a "majority-minority" country - that is, a nation where whites make up less than 50 percent of the population. Many believe this signals a fundamental change in America. Does it? Is the Melting Pot a thing of the past?" "Absolutely not, says political historian Michael Barone. In The New Americans, Barone reminds us that the United States has never been a homogeneous, monoethnic nation. He reveals how the new Americans of today can be interwoven into the fabric of American life just as immigrants have been interwoven throughout U.S. history."".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction: New Americans -- Irish -- Blacks -- Italians -- Latinos -- Jews -- Asians -- Conclusion: We've been here before.".
- catalog extent "338 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "New Americans.".
- catalog identifier "0895262029 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "New Americans.".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "c2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Washington, D.C. : Regnery Pub.,".
- catalog relation "New Americans.".
- catalog spatial "United States Emigration and immigration History.".
- catalog spatial "United States Emigration and immigration.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "305.9/0691 21".
- catalog subject "Immigrants United States History.".
- catalog subject "Immigrants United States.".
- catalog subject "JV6455 .B27 2001".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction: New Americans -- Irish -- Blacks -- Italians -- Latinos -- Jews -- Asians -- Conclusion: We've been here before.".
- catalog title "The new Americans : how the melting pot can work again / Michael Barone.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".