Replenished ethnicity : Mexican Americans, immigration, and identity /
Unlike the wave of immigration that came through Ellis Island and then subsided, immigration to the United States from Mexico has been virtually uninterrupted for one hundred years. In this vividly detailed book, Tomas R. Jimenez takes us into the lives of later-generation descendents of Mexican i...
| Основен автор: | Jimenez, Tomas R. 1975- |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Berkeley, Calif. :
University of California Press,
℗♭2010.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=305986 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Replenished ethnicity. |
| Резюме: |
Unlike the wave of immigration that came through Ellis Island and then subsided, immigration to the United States from Mexico has been virtually uninterrupted for one hundred years. In this vividly detailed book, Tomas R. Jimenez takes us into the lives of later-generation descendents of Mexican immigrants, asking for the first time how this constant influx of immigrants from their ethnic homeland has shaped their assimilation. His nuanced investigation of this complex and little-studied phenomenon finds that continuous immigration has resulted in a vibrant ethnicity that later-generation Mexi. |
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| Физически характеристики: |
1 online resource (xviii, 347 pages) : illustrations |
| Библиография: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780520946071 0520946073 9780520261419 0520261410 1282359835 9781282359833 |