Strangers Among Us: How Latino Immigration Is Transforming America - Rilegato

Suro, Roberto

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ISBN 10: 0679420924 ISBN 13: 9780679420927

Casa editrice: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1998

Riassunto

Beginning with the advent of Puerto Ricans in America in the fifties, a lucid evaluation of recent Latino immigration and its dramatic effects on America touches on such issues as bilingualism, assimilation, poverty, welfare, and ethnic consciousness. 15,000 first printing. Tour.

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"An elegant writer and a wise analyst, Roberto Suro has produced one of the most searching books in years on immigration and America's Latinos. It reflects an independent mind unafraid to break with orthodoxies, and the compassionate heart of a writer who is proud to be an American and proud of his Latin forebears."--E. J. Dionne

"With a welcome indifference to Mexican or American political correctness, Suro brilliantly explains how and why millions of Latin Americans immigrate to the United States. Strangers Among Us tells a sad and heroic story with the kind of insight and frankness that is usually absent in the debate on immigration in the United States."--Jorge G. Castañeda

"Roberto Suro appreciates, indeed courts, what many journalists disdain: complexity and subtlety in his analysis. He explains who Latinos are and how they're 'transforming' America, and at the same time he shows why Latino Americans, like any minority or immigrant group, defy convenient categorization."--William J. Bennett

"Roberto Suro's Strangers Among Us is a powerful antidote to the American xenophobia and racism that too often poison the well for the children and grandchildren of hardworking Latino immigrants. In this brilliant and humane book, Suro argues persuasively that our fear of these immigrants, who will be our largest ethnic minority in the coming century, is the greatest obstacle to their productive assimilation."--Victor Perera

"A really important book, full of solid research that leads to some surprising--and disturbing--conclusions. Roberto Suro knows his stuff and it shows."--Evan Thomas

L'autore:

Roberto Suro, the American-born son of a Puerto Rican father and an Ecuadorean mother, began his journalism career in 1974 in Chicago, where he first wrote about immigration. He was a correspondent for Time in the Middle East and a bureau chief for the New York Times in Rome and in Houston, and is now a staff writer at the Washington Post. He is the author of two Twentieth Century Fund papers on immigration: Remembering the American Dream: Hispanic Immigration and National Policy and Watching America's Door: The Immigration Backlash and the New Policy Debate. Mr. Suro lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and their two children.

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• Editore: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0679420924
• ISBN 13: 9780679420927
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 349