Is Assimilation Dead?

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

Volumn 530, Issue 1, 1993, Pages 122-136

  Glazer, Nathan ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0347128327     PISSN: 00027162     EISSN: 15523349     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0002716293530001009     Document Type: Article

References (21)

1. Michel Guillaume Jean de Crèvecoeur, Letters from an American Farmer, as quoted in Philip Gleason, “American Identity and Americanization,” in Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1980), p. 33.
2. Gleason, “American Identity,” p. 31.
3. Nathan Glazer, Affirmative Discrimination (New York: Basic Books, 1975).
4. Gleason, “American Identity,” p. 32.
5. Harold J. Abramson, “Assimilation and Pluralism,” in Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups, p. 152.
6. Frances A. Kellor, “What is Americanization?” Yale Review (Jan. 1919), as reprinted in Philip Davis, Immigration and Americanization: Selected Readings (Boston: Ginn, 1920), pp. 625-626.
7. Davis, Immigration and Americanization, p. 612; for a description of the meeting, see Edward George Hartman, The Movement to Americanize the Immigrant (New York: AMS Press, 1967), p. 11 n.
8. Davis, Immigration and Americanization, pp. 642-643.
9. Hartman, Movement to Americanize the Immigrant, pp. 220-221.
10. James A. Gavit, Americans by Choice (New York: Harper, 1922), pp. 10, 11-12.
11. Nor can we find what was once a key sociological concept, “assimilation,” among the entries in the recent four-volume Encyclopedia of Sociology by C. F. Borgatta and M. L. Borgatta (New York: Macmillan, 1992).
12. Read Lewis, “Americanization,” in Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences (New York: Macmillan, 1930), 2:33.
13. John Dewey, as quoted in Horace M. Kallen, Culture and Democracy in the United States (New York: Boni Liveright, 1924), pp. 131-132.
14. Kallen, pp. 127, 165.
15. For a characterization of the movement, see Nathan Glazer, Ethnic Dilemmas, 1964-1982 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1983), pp. 104-108.
16. Robert E. Park, “Assimilation,” in Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 2:282.
17. Glazer, Ethnic Dilemmas, pp. 100-101.
18. Lewis, “Americanization,” p. 34.
19. Stanley Lieberson and Mary Waters, From Many Strands: Ethnic and Radical Groups in Contemporary America (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1988).
20. Ethnic Options (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990).
21. Douglas S. Massey and Nancy A. Denton, American Apartheid (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1993).