Replenished Ethnicity: Mexican Americans, Immigration, and Identity (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780520261426)

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, Tom s R. Jim nez 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.

Author: Tomas Jimenez
ISBN-10: 0520261429
ISBN-13: 9780520261426
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 11/18/2009
Pages: 366
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 1.00d

Review Citation(s):
Chronicle of Higher Education 11/27/2009 pg. 17