Immigration and Race : New Challenges for American Democracy.

Immigration and Race : New Challenges for American Democracy.

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The real and potential impact of immigration policy decisions on African Americans is profound. Yet policy makers today lack systematic knowledge of crucial social, political, and economic issues relating to the formulation of wise immigration policies, charges the editor of this book. Gerald D. Jay...

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Main Author: Jaynes, Gerald D.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, 2008.
Subjects:
Since 1975
African Americans > Social conditions > 1975- > Congresses.
Immigrants > United States > Social conditions > Congresses.
African Americans > Politics and government > Congresses.
Immigrants > Political activity > United States > Congresses.
African Americans > Politics and government
African Americans > Social conditions
Emigration and immigration > Government policy
Emigration and immigration > Social aspects
Immigrants > Political activity
Immigrants > Social conditions
Race relations
Race relations > Political aspects
United States > Race relations > Congresses.
United States > Race relations > Political aspects > Congresses.
United States > Emigration and immigration > Government policy > Congresses.
United States > Emigration and immigration > Social aspects > Congresses.
United States
Conference papers and proceedings
Table of Contents:
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1 Introduction: Immigration and the American Dream
  • Attitudes and Interactions
  • 2 The Residential Segregation of Blacks, Hispanics, and Asians, 1970-1990
  • 3 The Politics of Black-Korean Conflict: Black Power Protest and the Mobilization of Racial Communities in New York City
  • Competition for Jobs and Services
  • 4 Educating Immigrant Children: Chapter 1 in Changing Cities
  • 5 Immigrants, Puerto Ricans, and the Earnings of Native Black Males
  • 6 Labor Market Dynamics and the Effects of Immigration on African Americans
  • Politics: Coalition and Competition7 Political Representation and Stratified Pluralism
  • 8 Legislative Redistricting and African American Interests: New Facts and Conventional Strategies
  • 9 Political Activity and Preferences of African Americans, Latinos, and Asian Americans
  • 10 Coalition Formation: The Mexican-Origin Community and Latinos and African Americans
  • Notes
  • References
  • List of Contributors
  • Index

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