Inheriting the City
The Children of Immigrants Come of Age
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Publication
2008-05-15 - Harvard University Press
Language
English
Word Count
101,500 words, Guess
Page Count
406 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Internet Archiveinheritingcitych0000unse_s3s3
- ISBN-100674028031
- ISBN-139780674028036
- Goodreads2403500
- LibraryThing7248601
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- Library of Congress Control Number2007036136
- OCLC Control Number169873666
- Better World Books9780674028036
- Open LibraryOL11125207M
Classifications
- LCCJV6600 .I64 2008
- LCCJV6600.I64 2008
Description
From the publisher: Inheriting the City examines five immigrant groups to disentangle the complicated question of how they are faring relative to native-born groups, and how achievement differs between and within these groups. While some experts worry that these young adults would not do as well as previous waves of immigrants due to lack of high-paying manufacturing jobs, poor public schools, and an entrenched racial divide, Inheriting the City finds that the second generation is rapidly moving into the mainstream--speaking English, working in jobs that resemble those held by native New Yorkers their age, and creatively combining their ethnic cultures and norms with American ones. Far from descending into an urban underclass, the children of immigrants are using immigrant advantages to avoid some of the obstacles that native minority groups cannot.
Description
"Inheriting the City examines five immigrant groups to disentangle the complicated question of how they are faring relative to nativeborn groups, and how achievement differs between and within these groups. While some experts worry that these young adults will not do as well as previous waves of immigrants due to lack of high-paying manufacturing jobs, poor public schools, and an entrenched racial divide, Inheriting the City finds that the second generation is rapidly moving into the mainstream - speaking English, working in jobs that resemble those held by native New Yorkers their age, and creatively combining their ethnic cultures and norms with American ones. Far from descending into an urban underclass, the children of immigrants are using immigrant advantages to avoid some of the obstacles that native minority groups cannot."--BOOK JACKET.
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