Revisiting assimilation: The rise, fall, and reappraisal of a concept in American ethnic history.

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  • Author(s): Kazal, Russell A.
  • Source:
    American Historical Review. Apr95, Vol. 100 Issue 2, p437. 35p.
  • Additional Information
    • Subject Terms:
      ASSIMILATION (Sociology); ETHNIC relations
    • Subject Terms:
      UNITED States
    • Abstract:
      Traces the rise, decline and the re-emergence of `assimilation' as the reigning concept in American immigration studies. Emergence of the centrality of assimilation in sociologists' and historians' work before the 1960s; Scholars' argument regarding the failure of assimilation and persistence of ethnic group identities from 1960 to 1980; Necessity of redefining assimilation.