Assimilation: An Alternative History Volume 58

For over a hundred years, the story of assimilation has animated the nation-building project of the United...
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Author: Catherine S. Ramírez
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Assimilation: An Alternative History Volume 58 by Ramírez, Catherine S.

Assimilation: An Alternative History Volume 58

€65,33

Assimilation: An Alternative History Volume 58

€65,33
Author: Catherine S. Ramírez
Format: Paperback
Language: English
For over a hundred years, the story of assimilation has animated the nation-building project of the United States. And still today, the dream or demand of a cultural "melting pot" circulates through academia, policy institutions, and mainstream media outlets. Noting society's many exclusions and erasures, scholars in the second half of the twentieth century persuasively argued that only some social groups assimilate. Others, they pointed out, are subject to racialization.

In this bold, discipline-traversing cultural history, Catherine Ramírez develops an entirely different account of assimilation. Weaving together the legacies of US settler colonialism, slavery, and border control, Ramírez challenges the assumption that racialization and assimilation are separate and incompatible processes. In fascinating chapters with subjects that range from nineteenth century boarding schools to the contemporary artwork of undocumented immigrants, this book decouples immigration and assimilation and probes the gap between assimilation and citizenship. It shows that assimilation is not just a process of absorption and becoming more alike. Rather, assimilation is a process of racialization and subordination and of power and inequality.

Author: Catherine S. Ramírez
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 12/08/2020
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780520300712

About the Author
Catherine S. Ramirez is Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies at UC Santa Cruz. She is the former director of the Research Center for the Americas at UC Santa Cruz and the author of The Woman in the Zoot Suit.

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