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To Be An American: Cultural Pluralism and the Rhetoric of Assimilation (Critical America)

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 | #4509272 in Books |  NYU Press |  2000-01-01 |  2000-01-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.21 x.64 x6.14l,.76 | File type: PDF | 256 pages

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||5 of 6 people found the following review helpful.| One of the best books of its kind|By Philip Tajitsu Nash|His is a familiar story for Pacific Americans. His father told the immigration officer that his name was Ong Chun Hing. Ignoring the fact that he had probably seen hundreds of Chinese immigrants before and knew that they put their family names first, the immigration officer put "Hing" in the box for "family name." A|.com |The United States' "melting pot" has boiled dry in recent years amid a climate of rising anti-immigrant sentiment. When politicians pick up on the dissatisfaction, the rhetoric often takes a sharper edge but offers no better understanding of the issues

The impetus behind California's Proposition 187 clearly reflects the growing anti-immigrant sentiment in this country. Many Americans regard today's new immigrants as not truly American, as somehow less committed to the ideals on which the country was founded. In clear, precise terms, Bill Ong Hing considers immigration in the context of the global economy, a sluggish national economy, and the hard facts about downsizing. Importantly, he also confronts the emphatic cl...

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