Richard Alba
Biographic Data
| ID | 3620537 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard Alba |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard |
| FAMILY NAME | Alba |
| SIGNATURE | ALBA R |
| AFFILIATIONS | City University of New York |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 153 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
From White Supremacy to a Multiracial Mainstream in Hawai'i: How the Color Line Can Change
Contemporary racial theorization about American society assumes the universality of White dominance as its point of departure. We argue here that Hawai'i is an exception, where White supremacy has given way to a multiracial mainstream, shared by the Chinese, Japanese, and Whites. This was a surprising development in a state founded in settler colonialism and racial capitalism, which was moreover a racially hierarchical plantation society until th…
Culture’s role in assimilation and integration: The expansion and growing diversity of U.S. popular culture
Popular culture is an underappreciated site for studying assimilation/integration, though it can play a vital role in redefining the moral worthiness of marginalised groups. In the U.S., this role is highlighted by the opening of popular culture to ethnic Catholics and Jews in the decades following World War II, when these groups entered the societal mainstream en masse. Similar changes in American popular culture are becoming evident today for n…
The Next Generation: Immigrant Youth in a Comparative Perspective
The U.S. mainstream expands – again
Building on neo-assimilation ideas, we conceptualise the ‘mainstream’ and then find compelling evidence of its expansion in the U.S. in the rising number of individuals who come from mixed minority–majority backgrounds. In terms of the contexts in which they are raised and their social identities and affiliations, on the whole they resemble whites more than they do minorities, and they marry whites at very high rates. Individuals who are partly b…
The Role of Immigrant Enclaves for Latino Residential Inequalities
We investigate the difference that immigrant enclaves make for the residential contexts of Latino families in the U.S. We argue that enclaves may no longer function simply as temporary way stations, the classic depiction of them, because of the compromised legal status of many Latinos. We examine this role with an innovative method that uses publicly available census tabulations (from the 2000 Census in our case) to develop HLM models, in which r…
The Integration Imperative: The Children of Low-Status Immigrants in the Schools of Wealthy Societies
Because demographic shifts will affect their labor forces in the immediate future, rich societies will have to face up to the challenge of integrating the children of low-status immigrants, such as Mexicans in the United States and Turks in western Europe. The performance of educational systems is critical to meeting this challenge. We consider how three features of such systems-the division of labor among schools, families, and communities; trac…
The Children of Immigrants and Host-Society Educational Systems: Mexicans in the United States and North Africans in France
Background/Context The educational fate of the children of low-wage immigrants is a salient issue in all the economically developed societies that have received major immigration flows since the 1950s. The article considers the way in which educational systems in the two countries structure the educational experiences and shape the opportunities of the children of immigrants. Purpose/Objective/Research Question/Focus of Study This article examine…
Galileo's Children: Italian Americans' Difficult Entry into the Intellectual Elite
We examine the possibility of ethnic exclusion by U.S. intellectual elites for the case of Italian Americans, a large, identifiable group that has assimilated into the mainstream during the last half century but is still the subject of demeaning stereotypes with wide currency. Membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a fellowship of nearly 4,000 members drawn from throughout the academic, scientific, and artistic worlds, is used a…
Blickpunkt Gesellschaft, Bd.5, Deutsche und Ausländer - Freunde, Fremde oder Feinde?, m. 1 CD-ROM
The Integration Imperative: The Children of Low-Status Immigrants in the Schools of Wealthy Societies
Because demographic shifts will affect their labor forces in the immediate future, rich societies will have to face up to the challenge of integrating the children of low-status immigrants, such as Mexicans in the United States and Turks in western Europe. The performance of educational systems is critical to meeting this challenge. We consider how three features of such systems-the division of labor among schools, families, and communities; trac…
The U.S. mainstream expands – again
Building on neo-assimilation ideas, we conceptualise the ‘mainstream’ and then find compelling evidence of its expansion in the U.S. in the rising number of individuals who come from mixed minority–majority backgrounds. In terms of the contexts in which they are raised and their social identities and affiliations, on the whole they resemble whites more than they do minorities, and they marry whites at very high rates. Individuals who are partly b…
The Role of Immigrant Enclaves for Latino Residential Inequalities
We investigate the difference that immigrant enclaves make for the residential contexts of Latino families in the U.S. We argue that enclaves may no longer function simply as temporary way stations, the classic depiction of them, because of the compromised legal status of many Latinos. We examine this role with an innovative method that uses publicly available census tabulations (from the 2000 Census in our case) to develop HLM models, in which r…
Culture’s role in assimilation and integration: The expansion and growing diversity of U.S. popular culture
Popular culture is an underappreciated site for studying assimilation/integration, though it can play a vital role in redefining the moral worthiness of marginalised groups. In the U.S., this role is highlighted by the opening of popular culture to ethnic Catholics and Jews in the decades following World War II, when these groups entered the societal mainstream en masse. Similar changes in American popular culture are becoming evident today for n…
Galileo's Children: Italian Americans' Difficult Entry into the Intellectual Elite
We examine the possibility of ethnic exclusion by U.S. intellectual elites for the case of Italian Americans, a large, identifiable group that has assimilated into the mainstream during the last half century but is still the subject of demeaning stereotypes with wide currency. Membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a fellowship of nearly 4,000 members drawn from throughout the academic, scientific, and artistic worlds, is used a…
Blickpunkt Gesellschaft, Bd.5, Deutsche und Ausländer - Freunde, Fremde oder Feinde?, m. 1 CD-ROM
Galileo's Children: Italian Americans' Difficult Entry into the Intellectual Elite
We examine the possibility of ethnic exclusion by U.S. intellectual elites for the case of Italian Americans, a large, identifiable group that has assimilated into the mainstream during the last half century but is still the subject of demeaning stereotypes with wide currency. Membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a fellowship of nearly 4,000 members drawn from throughout the academic, scientific, and artistic worlds, is used a…
The Children of Immigrants and Host-Society Educational Systems: Mexicans in the United States and North Africans in France
Background/Context The educational fate of the children of low-wage immigrants is a salient issue in all the economically developed societies that have received major immigration flows since the 1950s. The article considers the way in which educational systems in the two countries structure the educational experiences and shape the opportunities of the children of immigrants. Purpose/Objective/Research Question/Focus of Study This article examine…
The Integration Imperative: The Children of Low-Status Immigrants in the Schools of Wealthy Societies
Because demographic shifts will affect their labor forces in the immediate future, rich societies will have to face up to the challenge of integrating the children of low-status immigrants, such as Mexicans in the United States and Turks in western Europe. The performance of educational systems is critical to meeting this challenge. We consider how three features of such systems-the division of labor among schools, families, and communities; trac…
The Role of Immigrant Enclaves for Latino Residential Inequalities
We investigate the difference that immigrant enclaves make for the residential contexts of Latino families in the U.S. We argue that enclaves may no longer function simply as temporary way stations, the classic depiction of them, because of the compromised legal status of many Latinos. We examine this role with an innovative method that uses publicly available census tabulations (from the 2000 Census in our case) to develop HLM models, in which r…
The U.S. mainstream expands – again
Building on neo-assimilation ideas, we conceptualise the ‘mainstream’ and then find compelling evidence of its expansion in the U.S. in the rising number of individuals who come from mixed minority–majority backgrounds. In terms of the contexts in which they are raised and their social identities and affiliations, on the whole they resemble whites more than they do minorities, and they marry whites at very high rates. Individuals who are partly b…
The Next Generation: Immigrant Youth in a Comparative Perspective
Culture’s role in assimilation and integration: The expansion and growing diversity of U.S. popular culture
Popular culture is an underappreciated site for studying assimilation/integration, though it can play a vital role in redefining the moral worthiness of marginalised groups. In the U.S., this role is highlighted by the opening of popular culture to ethnic Catholics and Jews in the decades following World War II, when these groups entered the societal mainstream en masse. Similar changes in American popular culture are becoming evident today for n…
From White Supremacy to a Multiracial Mainstream in Hawai'i: How the Color Line Can Change
Contemporary racial theorization about American society assumes the universality of White dominance as its point of departure. We argue here that Hawai'i is an exception, where White supremacy has given way to a multiracial mainstream, shared by the Chinese, Japanese, and Whites. This was a surprising development in a state founded in settler colonialism and racial capitalism, which was moreover a racially hierarchical plantation society until th…
Sociology (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Racial and Ethnic Identity Research (5 works) · Ethnic group (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Immigration (4 works) · Mainstream (4 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works)