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Replenished ethnicity : Mexican Americans, immigration, and identity / Tomás R. Jiménez

Author
Jiménez, Tomás R. (Tomás Roberto), 1975-
Additional Titles
Mexican Americans, immigration, and identity
Published
Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, [2010]
Copyright Date
©2010
Physical Description
1 online resource (xviii, 347 pages) : illustrations
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Contents
Introduction -- Mexican Americans : a history of replenishment and assimilation -- Dimensions of Mexican-American assimilation -- Replenishing Mexican ethnicity -- The ties that bind and divide : ethnic boundaries and ethnic identity -- Assessing Mexican immigration : the Mexican-American perspective -- Ethnic drawbridges : unity and division with Mexican immigrants -- Conclusion.
Summary
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, Tomás R. Jiménez 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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ISBN
9780520946071 (electronic bk.)
0520946073 (electronic bk.)
9780520261419 (Cloth)
0520261410 (Cloth)
1282359835
9781282359833
9780520261426 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0520261429 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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