Immigrants in New York City: Reaping the benefits of continuous immigration

Daedalus

Volumn 142, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 92-106

  Waters, Mary C ^a   Kasinitz, Philip ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

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EID: 84879915037     PISSN: 00115266     EISSN: 15486192     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/DAED_a_00221     Document Type: Article

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3. Audrey Singer, "Twenty-First Century Gateways: An Introduction," in Twenty-First Century Gateways: Immigrant Incorporation in Suburban America, ed. Audrey Singer, Susan W. Hardwick, and Caroline B. Brettell (Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2008), 3-21.
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14. Aviva Zeltzer-Zubida and Philip Kasinitz, "The Next Generation: Russian Jewish Young Adults in Contemporary New York," Contemporary Jewry 25 (2005): 193-225.
15. Many of these organizations also provide services for non-Jews, including immigrants from other groups and members of native minority groups.
16. David Mittelberg and Mary C. Waters, "The Process of Ethnogenesis among Haitian and Israeli Immigrants in the United States," Ethnic and Racial Studies 15 (3) (1992): 412-435.
17. Amy Foerster, "Isn't Anybody Here from Alabama?': Solidarity and Struggle in a 'Mighty, Mighty Union,"
18. Nicole P. Marwell, "Ethnic and Postethnic Politics in New York City: The Dominican Second Generation," Both in Becoming New Yorkers: Ethnographies of the New Second Generation, ed. Philip Kasinitz, John H. Mollenkopf, and Mary C. Waters (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2004).
19. Kasinitz and Mary C. Waters, Black Identities: West Indian Immigrant Dreams and American Realities (Cambridge, Mass., and New York: Harvard University Press and Russell Sage Foundation, 1999).
20. Roger Waldinger, Still the Promised City?: African-Americans and New Immigrants in Post-industrial New York (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1996)
21. Stanley Lieberson and Mary C. Waters, From Many Strands: Ethnic and Racial Groups in Contemporary America (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1988).
22. Rubén Rumbaut, "Ages, Life Stages, and Generational Cohorts: Decomposing the Immigrant First and Second Generations in the United States," International Migration Review 38 (3) (2004): 1160-1205.
23. Philip Kasinitz, John H. Mollenkopf, Mary C. Waters, and Jennifer Holdaway, Inheriting the City: The Children of Immigrants Come of Age (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2008).
24. Portes, Rumbaut and Van C. Tran, "English Gain vs. Spanish Loss? Language Assimilation Among Second-Generation Latinos in Young Adulthood," Social Forces 89 (1) (2010): 257-284.
25. Mary C. Waters and Philip Kasinitz, "Discrimination, Race Relations, and the Second Generation," Social Research 77 (1) (2010): 101-132.
26. John David Skrentny, ed., Color Lines: Affirmative Action, Immigration, and Civil Rights Options for America (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001).
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28. Douglas S. Massey, Margarita Mooney, Kimberly C. Torres, and Camille Z. Charles, "Black Immigrants and Black Natives Attending Selective Colleges and Universities in the United States," American Journal of Education 113 (2007): 243-271.
29. Irvin L. Child, Italian or American? The Second Generation in Conflict (1943; New York: Russell and Russell, 1970).
30. Sean P. Corcoran, "How New York Students Have Fared Under High School Choice: A Bird's Eye View," Unpublished paper, New York University, 2011.
31. Robert Courtney Smith, "Mexicans: Civic Engagement, Education, and Progress Achieved and Inhibited," in One Out of Three: Immigrant New York in the Twenty-First Century, ed. Nancy Foner (New York: Columbia University Press, 2013).
32. Irving Kristol, "The Negro Today is Like the Immigrant of Yesterday," The New York Times Magazine, September 11, 1966.
33. Interestingly, by 1970, events had convinced Glazer and Moynihan that this analogy was increasingly problematic, as the long essay that introduces their book's second edition makes clear.
34. David R. Roedinger, The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class (New York: Verso, 1991)
35. Noel Igantief, How the Irish Became White (New York: Rout-ledge, 1995)
36. Matthew Jacobson and Matthew Frye, Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1998).
37. However insightful and provocative this literature has been, historians increasingly view its central claims as overstated. While nineteenth-century eugenics and ideas about a hierarchy of races no doubt played a role in reception of European immigrants, no one would argue that the racism these immigrants experienced was remotely close to the virulent forms of racism experienced by blacks. The best empirical investigation of this difference remains Stanley Lieberson, A Piece of the Pie: Blacks and White Immigrants since 1880 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980). The whiteness literature may also be marred by a certain literal-mindedness in its reading of nineteenth-century materials, which date from a time when the word race was often used more broadly than it is today.
38. George J. Sánchez, Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture, and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900-1945 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993)
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41. Nancy Foner, "How Exceptional is New York? Migration and Multiculturalism in the Empire City," Ethnic and Racial Studies 30 (6) (November 2007): 999-1023.
42. John R. Logan and Charles Zhang, "Global Neighborhoods: New Pathways to Diversity and Separation," American Journal of Sociology 115 (4) (January 2010): 1069-1109.
43. Mary C. Waters and Tomás Jiménez, "Assessing Immigrant Assimilation: New Empirical and Theoretical Challenges," Annual Review of Sociology 31 (2005): 105-125.
44. Daniel Hopkins, "Politicized Places: Explaining Where and When Immigrants Provoke Local Opposition," American Political Science Review 104 (1): 40-60.
45. Brooke Meyer, Joy Segreto, April Carter, and Ann Morse, "2011 Immigration-Related Laws and Resolutions in the States" (Denver and Washington, D.C.: National Conference of State Legislatures, December 2011), http://www.ncsl.org/issues-research/immig/state-immigration-legislation-report-dec-2011.aspx.