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African Americans grappled with Jim Crow segregation until it was legally overturned in the 1960s. In subsequent decades, the country witnessed a new wave of immigration from Asia and Latin America—forever changing the face of American society and making it more racially diverse than ever before. In The Diversity Paradox, authors Jennifer Lee and Frank Bean take these two poles of American collective identity—the legacy of slavery and immigration—and ask if today’s immigrants are destined to become racialized minorities akin to African Americans or if their incorporation into U.S. society will more closely resemble that of their European predecessors. They also tackle the vexing question of whether America’s new racial diversity is helping to erode the tenacious black/white color line.The Diversity Paradox uses population-based analyses and in-depth interviews to examine patterns of intermarriage and multiracial identification among Asians, Latinos, and African Americans. Lee and Bean analyze where the color line—and the economic and social advantage it demarcates—is drawn today and on what side these new arrivals fall. They show that Asians and Latinos with mixed ancestry are not constrained by strict racial categories. Racial status often shifts according to situation. Individuals can choose to identify along ethnic lines or as white, and their decisions are rarely questioned by outsiders or institutions. These groups also intermarry at higher rates, which is viewed as part of the process of becoming “American” and a form of upward social mobility. African Americans, in contrast, intermarry at significantly lower rates than Asians and Latinos. Further, multiracial blacks often choose not to identify as such and are typically perceived as being black only—underscoring the stigma attached to being African American and the entrenchment of the “one-drop” rule. Asians and Latinos are successfully disengaging their national origins from the concept of race—like European immigrants before them—and these patterns are most evident in racially diverse parts of the country. For the first time in 2000, the U.S. Census enabled multiracial Americans to identify themselves as belonging to more than one race. Eight years later, multiracial Barack Obama was elected as the 44th President of the United States. For many, these events give credibility to the claim that the death knell has been sounded for institutionalized racial exclusion. The Diversity Paradox is an extensive and eloquent examination of how contemporary immigration and the country’s new diversity are redefining the boundaries of race. The book also lays bare the powerful reality that as the old black/white color line fades a new one may well be emerging—with many African Americans still on the other side.

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9780871540416 | Russell Sage Foundation, July 1, 2010, cover price $37.50 | About this edition: African Americans grappled with Jim Crow segregation until it was legally overturned in the 1960s.

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9780871545138 | Reprint edition (Russell Sage Foundation, April 5, 2012), cover price $24.95

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The attacks of September 11, 2001, facilitated by easy entry and lax immigration controls, cast into bold relief the importance and contradictions of U.S. immigration policy. Will we have to restrict immigration for fear of future terrorist attacks? On a broader scale, can the country's sense of national identity be maintained in the face of the cultural diversity that today's immigrants bring? How will the resulting demographic, social, and economic changes affect U.S. residents? As the debate about immigration policy heats up, it has become more critical than ever to examine immigration's role in our society. With a comprehensive social scientific assessment of immigration over the past thirty years, America's Newcomers and the Dynamics of Diversity provides the clearest picture to date of how immigration has actually affected the United States, while refuting common misconceptions and predicting how it might affect us in the future.Frank Bean and Gillian Stevens show how, on the whole, immigration has been beneficial for the United States. Although about one million immigrants arrive each year, the job market has expanded sufficiently to absorb them without driving down wages significantly or preventing the native-born population from finding jobs. Immigration has not led to welfare dependency among immigrants, nor does evidence indicate that welfare is a magnet for immigrants. With the exception of unauthorized Mexican and Central American immigrants, studies show that most other immigrant groups have attained sufficient earnings and job mobility to move into the economic mainstream. Many Asian and Latino immigrants have established ethnic networks while maintaining their native cultural practices in the pursuit of that goal. While this phenomenon has led many people to believe that today's immigrants are slow to enter mainstream society, Bean and Stevens show that intermarriage and English language proficiency among these groups are just as high—if not higher—as among prior waves of European immigrants. America's Newcomers and the Dynamics of Diversity concludes by showing that the increased racial and ethnic diversity caused by immigration may be helping to blur the racial divide in the United States, transforming the country from a biracial to multi-ethnic and multi-racial society. Replacing myth with fact, America's Newcomers and the Dynamics of Diversity contains a wealth of information and belongs on the bookshelves of policymakers, pundits, scholars, students, and anyone who is concerned about the changing face of the United States. A Volume in the American Sociological Association's Rose Series in Sociology

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9780871541246 | Russell Sage Foundation, May 1, 2003, cover price $32.50 | About this edition: The attacks of September 11, 2001, facilitated by easy entry and lax immigration controls, cast into bold relief the importance and contradictions of U.

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9780871541284 | Russell Sage Foundation, December 31, 2005, cover price $19.95

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Product Description: The American dream of equal opportunity and social mobility still holds a powerful appeal for the many immigrants who arrive in this country each year. but if immigrant success stories symbolize the fulfillment of the American dream, the persistent inequality suffered by native-born African Americans demonstrates the dream's limits...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Frank D. Bean (editor) and Stephanie Bell-Rose (editor)

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9780871541239 | Russell Sage Foundation, December 1, 1999, cover price $43.95 | About this edition: The American dream of equal opportunity and social mobility still holds a powerful appeal for the many immigrants who arrive in this country each year.

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Product Description: With recent immigration at a near record high, many observers fear that African Americans, particularly those in low skill jobs, are increasingly losing out to immigrants in the American labor market. Because today's immigrants are largely non-European and non-white, there is also speculation that their presence will intensify the competition for housing and educational opportunities among minority groups...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Frank D. Bean (editor) and Daniel S. Hamermesh (editor)

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9780871543875 | Russell Sage Foundation, August 1, 1998, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: With recent immigration at a near record high, many observers fear that African Americans, particularly those in low skill jobs, are increasingly losing out to immigrants in the American labor market.

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Product Description: Mexico is becoming increasingly important as a focus of U.S. immigration policy, and the movement of people across the U.S.-Mexico border is a subject of intense interest and controversy. The U.S. approach to cross-border flows is in flux, the economic climate in Mexico is uncertain, and relations between the two neighbors have entered a new stage with the launching of NAFTA...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Frank D. Bean (editor), Rodolfo O. de la Garza (editor), Bryan R. Roberts (editor) and Sidney Weintraub (editor)

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9780847683925 | Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, April 1, 1997, cover price $44.00 | About this edition: Mexico is becoming increasingly important as a focus of U.

By Frank D. Bean (editor), Rodolfo O. De LA Garza (editor), Bryan R. Roberts (editor) and Sidney Weintraub (editor)

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9780847683918 | Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, April 1, 1997, cover price $106.00

Product Description: Fills a void in our understanding of the labor market consequences of legal immigration. Altering a policy dating back to 1965, the 1990 Immigration Act increased the number of visas issued to foreigners with particular employment skills and reduced the share of visas going to those who seek family unification...read more

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9780877665571 | Urban Inst Pr, June 1, 1992, cover price $42.00 | About this edition: Fills a void in our understanding of the labor market consequences of legal immigration.

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9780877665588 | Urban Inst Pr, June 1, 1992, cover price $16.50 | About this edition: Fills a void in our understanding of the labor market consequences of legal immigration.

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9780871541048 | Russell Sage Foundation, June 1, 1988, cover price $55.00

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9780871541055 | Reprint edition (Russell Sage Foundation, December 1, 1990), cover price $21.00

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Hardcover:

9780877664895 | Urban Inst Pr, October 1, 1990, cover price $45.50

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9780877664901 | Urban Inst Pr, October 1, 1990, cover price $26.00

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Product Description: This book provides a clear outline of the major historical features of immigration to the United States; examines in detail the provisions, implementations to date, and potential effects of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (IRCA); and reviews recent trends in legal and illegal immigration and refugee admissions, together with recent proposals to further alter legal immigration policy...read more

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9780877664284 | Urban Inst Pr, October 1, 1989, cover price $32.50 | About this edition: This book provides a clear outline of the major historical features of immigration to the United States; examines in detail the provisions, implementations to date, and potential effects of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (IRCA); and reviews recent trends in legal and illegal immigration and refugee admissions, together with recent proposals to further alter legal immigration policy.

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9780877664291, titled "Opening and Closing the Doors Evaluating Immigration Reform and Control" | Urban Inst Pr, October 1, 1989, cover price $13.50 | About this edition: This book provides a clear outline of the major historical features of immigration to the United States; examines in detail the provisions, implementations to date, and potential effects of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (IRCA); and reviews recent trends in legal and illegal immigration and refugee admissions, together with recent proposals to further alter legal immigration policy.

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