Inheriting the city
Philip Kasinitz, John H. Mollenkopf, Mary C. Waters, Jennifer Holdaway · 2009
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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.
Book details
- Year
- 2009
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Russell Sage Foundation
- Editions
- 7
- Pages
- 420
- ISBN
- 9780871544780
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