Reinventing the Melting Pot The New

Two dozen of the nation's top experts answer the question: Can the melting pot work today, as it did in the past, to forge a new America?

Tamar Jacoby is a journalist formerly on staff at The New York Review of Books, Newsweek, and The New York Times, where she was deputy editor of the op-ed page. A senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, she writes frequently about race and other social issues for the The Wall Street Journal, The New Republic, Commentary, Dissent, and other publications.

PART ONE: AN EMERGING CONSENSUS

Defining Assimilation for the 21st Century

3

(14)

Tamar Jacoby

The New Immigrants: A Progress Report

17

(16)

PART TWO: THEN AND NOW

The American Kaleidoscope, Then and Now

33

(14)

Herbert J. Gans

Rediscovering the Melting Pot--- Still Going Strong

47

(14)

Stephan Thernstrom

Assimilation Today: Is One Identity Enough?

61

(14)

Nathan Glazer

The 21st Century: An Entirely New Story

75

(12)

Roger Waldinger

Toward a New Definition

87

(12)

Victor Nee

Richard Alba

PART THREE: THE IMMIGRANT BARGAIN

The Assimilation Contract---Endangered But Still Holding

99

(12)

Peter D. Salins

The American Side of the Bargain

111

(14)

Douglas S. Massey

PART FOUR: WHAT WORKS

Mexican-Americans and the Mestizo Melting Pot

125

(14)

Gregory Rodriguez

Assimilation, the Asian Way

139

(16)

Min Zhou

For the Second Generation, One Step at a Time

155

(12)

Alejandro Portes

The Alloy of New York

167

(16)

Pete Hamill

PART FIVE: ECONOMICS AND POLITICS

Toward a Post-Ethnic Economy

183

(16)

Joel Kotkin

Economic Assimilation: Trouble Ahead

199

(12)

George J. Borjas

Assimilation to the American Creed

211

(10)

Amitai Etzioni

``This Was Our Riot, Too'': The Political Assimilation of Today's Immigrants

221

(14)

Peter Skerry

PART SIX: RACE---THE EXCEPTION OR THE RULE?

The Melting Pot and the Color Line

235

(14)

Stephen Steinberg

Getting Over Identity

249

(12)

John McWhorter

PART SEVEN: WHAT IT MEANS TO BE AMERICAN

New Americans After September 11

261

(10)

Michael Barone

Goose-Loose Blues for the Melting Pot

271

(14)

Stanley Crouch

The New Two-Way Street

285

(8)

Gary Shteyngart

What It Means to Be American in the 21st Century

293

(22)

Tamar Jacoby

Acknowledgments

315

(2)

Contributors

317

(4)

Author Copyrights

321

(2)

Index

323

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