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West Indian Immigrant Dreams and American Realities
The story of West Indian immigrants to the United States is generally considered to be a great success. Mary Waters, however, tells a very different s...
Choosing Identities in America
"Mary Waters' admirable study of Americans' ethnic choices produces a rich social-scientific yield. Its theoretical interest derives from the American...
First Edition
Written by a team of internationally renowned sociologists with experience in both the field and the classroom, The Art and Science of Social Research...
The Children of Immigrants Come of Age
From the publisher: Inheriting the City examines five immigrant groups to disentangle the complicated question of how they are faring relative to nati...
A Psychological Study of the Strange Situation
Ethological attachment theory is a landmark of 20th century social and behavioral sciences theory and research. This new paradigm for understanding pr...
Ethnic and Racial Groups in Contemporary America
The 1980 Census introduced a radical change in the measurement of ethnicity by gathering information on ancestry for all respondents, regardless of ho...
Ethnographies of the New Second Generation
More than half of New Yorkers under the age of eighteen are the children of immigrants. This second generation shares with previous waves of immigrant...
The Transnational Lives of the Second Generation
The children of immigrants account for the fastest growing segment of the U.S. population under 18 years old one out of every five children in the Uni...
"Written by a team of renowned sociologists with experience in both the field and the classroom, The Art and Science of Social Research offers authori...
How the Census Counts Multiracial Individuals
The change in the way the federal government asked for information about race in the 2000 census marked an important turning point in the way American...
ethnic and racial groups in contemporary America ; for the National Committee for research on the 1990 census
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Caribbean Immigrants in the United States