Mary C. Waters is M.E. Zukerman Professor of Sociology at Harvard University. She is author most recently of The Next Generation: Immigrant Youth in Comparative Perspective, and of Ethnic Options: Choosing Identities in America (UC Press), among other books. Patrick J. Carr is Associate Professor at Rutgers University. He is the author of Clean Streets: Controlling Crimes, Maintaining Order, and Building Community Activism and Hollowing Out the Middle: The Rural Brain Drain and What it Means for America. Maria J. Kefalas, Professor in the Department of Sociology at Saint Joseph’s University, is the author of Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood Before Marriage (UC Press) among other books. Jennifer Holdaway is Program Director and China Representative at the Social Science Research Council. She is the author most recently of Environment and Health in China: Cross-disciplinary Perspectives.
12 Ebooks door Mary C. Waters
Patrick Joseph Carr & Maria Kefalas: Coming of Age in America
What is it like to become an adult in twenty-first-century America? This book takes us to four very different places—New York City, San Diego, rural Iowa, and Saint Paul, Minnesota—to explore the dra …
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Richard Alba & Mary C. Waters: The Next Generation
One fifth of the population of the United States belongs to the immigrant or second generations. While the US is generally thought of as the immigrant society par excellence, it now has a number of r …
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Committee on Population & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Integration of Immigrants into American Society
The United States prides itself on being a nation of immigrants, and the country has a long history of successfully absorbing people from across the globe. The integration of immigrants and their chi …
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Committee on Population & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Integration of Immigrants into American Society
The United States prides itself on being a nation of immigrants, and the country has a long history of successfully absorbing people from across the globe. The integration of immigrants and their chi …
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€76.80
Fiona Devine & Mary C. Waters: Social Inequalities in Comparative Perspective
This unique collection of original essays brings a comparative perspective to issues of social inequality. First-rate sociologists from around the world have contributed to this exciting and rigorous …
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Mary C. Waters: Black Identities
The story of West Indian immigrants to the United States is considered a great success. Many of these adoptive citizens have prospered, including General Colin Powell. But Mary Waters tells a very di …
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Philip Kasinitz & John H. Mollenkopf: Becoming New Yorkers
More than half of New Yorkers under the age of eighteen are the children of immigrants. This second generation shares with previous waves of immigrant youth the experience of attempting to reconcile …
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€44.87
Peggy Levitt & Mary C. Waters: Changing Face of Home
The children of immigrants account for the fastest growing segment of the U.S. population under eighteen years old-one out of every five children in the United States. Will this generation of immigra …
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€44.98
Stanley Lieberson & Mary C. Waters: From Many Strands
The 1980 Census introduced a radical change in the measurement of ethnicity by gathering information on ancestry for all respondents, regardless of how long ago their forebears migrated to America, a …
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Joel Perlmann & Mary C. Waters: New Race Question
The change in the way the federal government asked for information about race in the 2000 census marked an important turning point in the way Americans measure race. By allowing respondents to choose …
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€41.60
Jennifer Holdaway & Philip Kasinitz: Inheriting the City
The United States is an immigrant nation-nowhere is the truth of this statement more evident than in its major cities. Immigrants and their children comprise nearly three-fifths of New York City’s po …
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Reed Ueda & Mary C. Waters: New Americans
Listen to a short interview with Mary Waters Host: Chris Gondek | Producer: Heron & Crane Salsa has replaced ketchup as the most popular condiment. A mosque has been erected around the corner. The lo …
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