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The New Americans: How the Melting Pot Can Work Again

The New Americans: How the Melting Pot Can Work Again. By Michael Barone. Washington, D.C.: Refinery Publishing, Inc., 2001. Pp. 338. $27.95.

Those adages about the past upon which all historians are weaned should make one wary of tackling a subject like the contemporary relevance of the melting pot idea. Indeed, the notion that all immigrants would (or should) lose their ethnic identity and become completely Americanized faced criticism from immigrants as well as the nativeborn when it was first introduced through Israel Zangwill's play in 1908. The concept has fallen out of favor in academic circles over the past two generations as students of ethnicity and migrations have turned instead ...

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