Tomas Jimenez Other Side of Assimilation

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The immigration patterns of the last three decades have profoundly changed nearly every aspect of life in the United States. What do those changes mean for the most established Americansthose whose families have been in the country for multiple generations? The Other Side of Assimilationshows that assimilation isnot aone-way street. Jimenez explains how established Americans undergo their own assimilation in response to profound immigration-driven ethnic, racial, political, economic, and cultural shifts. Drawing on interviews with a race and class spectrum of established Americans in three different Silicon Valley cities,The Other Side of Assimilationilluminates how established Americans make sense of their experiences in immigrant-rich environments, in work, school, public interactions, romantic life, and leisure activities. With lucid prose, Jimenez reveals how immigrationnot only changesthe American cityscapebut also reshapesthe United States by altering the outlooks and identities of its most established citizens.