When White Is Just Alright: How Immigrants Redefine Achievement and Reconfigure the Ethnoracial Hierarchy

American Sociological Review

Volumn 78, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 849-871

  Jiménez, Tomás R ^a   Horowitz, Adam L ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

achievement; assimilation; immigration; race; whiteness

Indexed keywords

EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT; IMMIGRANT; IMMIGRATION; RACE;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84884843312     PISSN: 00031224     EISSN: 19398271     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0003122413497012     Document Type: Article

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