Replenished Ethnicity: Mexican Americans, Immigration, and Identity

Replenished Ethnicity: Mexican Americans, Immigration, and Identity
ISBN-10
0520946073
ISBN-13
9780520946071
Category
Social Science
Pages
366
Language
English
Published
2009-11-18
Publisher
Univ of California Press
Author
Tomas Jimenez

Description

Unlike the wave of immigration that came through Ellis Island and then subsided, immigration to the United States from Mexico has been virtually uninterrupted for one hundred years. In this vividly detailed book, Tomás R. Jiménez takes us into the lives of later-generation descendents of Mexican immigrants, asking for the first time how this constant influx of immigrants from their ethnic homeland has shaped their assimilation. His nuanced investigation of this complex and little-studied phenomenon finds that continuous immigration has resulted in a vibrant ethnicity that later-generation Mexican Americans describe as both costly and beneficial. Replenished Ethnicity sheds new light on America's largest ethnic group, making it must reading for anyone interested in how immigration is changing the United States.

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