Reinventing the Melting Pot: The New Immigrants and What it Means to be American

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2004
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In Reinventing the Melting Pot , twenty-one of the writers who have thought longest and hardest about immigration come together around a surprising consensus: yes, immigrant absorption still works-and given the number of newcomers arriving today, the nation's future depends on it. But it need not be incompatible with ethnic identity-and we as a nation need to find new ways to talk about and encourage becoming American. In the wake of 9/11 it couldn't be more important to help these newcomers find a way to fit in. Running through these essays is a single common theme: Although ethnicity plays a more important role now than ever before, today's newcomers can and will become Americans and enrich our national life-reinventing the melting pot and reminding us all what we have in common.

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In Reinventing the Melting Pot , twenty-one of the writers who have thought longest and hardest about immigration come together around a surprising consensus: yes, immigrant absorption still works-and given the number of newcomers arriving today, the nation's future depends on it. But it need not be incompatible with ethnic identity-and we as a nation need to find new ways to talk about and encourage becoming American. In the wake of 9/11 it couldn't be more important to help these newcomers find a way to fit in. Running through these essays is a single common theme: Although ethnicity plays a more important role now than ever before, today's newcomers can and will become Americans and enrich our national life-reinventing the melting pot and reminding us all what we have in common.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 352
Edition: export ed
Publisher: Perseus
Published: 10 Nov 2004
ISBN 10: 046503635X
ISBN 13: 9780465036356

Media Reviews

Careful, reasoned assessments of the current state of immigration and immigrants in a nation that constantly renews itself with newcomers. Los Angles Times Tamar Jacoby has assembled an all-star team of scholars and journalists-including Michael Barone, Stanley Crouch, Pete Hamill, Nathan Glazer and Stephan Thernstrom... This important book shows that there is nothing more American than a debate over what it means to be an American. Vincent J. Cannato, The Wall Street Journal

Author Bio

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.