Introduction -- Mexican Americans : a history of replenishment and assimilation -- Dimensions of Mexican-American assimilation -- Replenishing Mexican ethnicity -- The ties that bind and divide : ethnic boundaries and ethnic identity -- Assessing Mexican immigration : the Mexican-American perspective -- Ethnic drawbridges : unity and division with Mexican immigrants -- Conclusion
Summary
Unlike the wave of immigration that came through Ellis Island and then subsided, immigration to the United States from Mexico has been virtually uninterrupted for one hundred years. In this vividly detailed book, Tomás R. Jiménez takes us into the lives of later-generation descendents of Mexican immigrants, asking for the first time how this constant influx of immigrants from their ethnic homeland has shaped their assimilation. His nuanced investigation of this complex and little-studied phenomenon finds that continuous immigration has resulted in a vibrant ethnicity that later-generation Mexi
