The anti-immigrant sentiment in America in the 1920s, exemplified by the case against Sacco and Vanzetti, provides a pertinent reminder of the power of nativism as an establishment faces threatening social changes.
about the author
Richard Alba is in the sociology department at the Graduate Center of the City Uni- versity of New York. He is the author of Blurring the Color Line: The New Chance for a More Integrated America.
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Sacco and Vanzetti and The Immigrant Threat
about the author
Syed Ali is in the sociology/anthropology department at Long Island University in Brooklyn, NY. He is the author of Dubai: Gilded Cage.
Book Review
The Moslems Are Here—Be Afraid!
Christopher Caldwell’s Reflections on the Revolution in Europe: Immigration, Islam, and the West argues that Muslim immigrant resistance to assimilation poses a threat to European culture and politics. Reviewer Syed Ali criticizes this analysis as the book as over-simplified rhetoric lacking in counter-interpretations.
about the author
Edward E. Telles is in the sociology department at Princeton University. He is the author (with Vilma Ortiz) of Generations of Exclusion: Mexican Americans, Assimilation, and Race.
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Mexican Americans And Immigrant Incorporation
Immigrant incorporation has long been thought of as a linear process of assimilation on the model of early 20th century European immigrants. But sociologists are finding that today’s immigrants don’t fit this model. Studies of Mexican immigrants show in microcosm a more uneven, varied process of becoming American.
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