Philip Kasinitz

Biographic Data

ID3629704
NAMEPhilip Kasinitz
GIVEN NAMESPhilip
FAMILY NAMEKasinitz
SIGNATUREKASINITZ P
AFFILIATIONSThe Graduate Center, CUNY
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS88
TOTAL CITATIONS634
AUTHOR COUNT84
EDITOR COUNT4
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1984
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX12

  • Birthright Citizenship Works

    Open AccessPhilip KasinitzARTICLEContexts2025

    Philip Kasinitz on a constitutional conferral

  • Segmented assimilation, then and now

    Philip KasinitzARTICLEEthnic and Racial Studies2025Cited by: 3References: 17

  • Becoming white or becoming mainstream: Defining the Endpoint of Assimilation

    Philip Kasinitz, Mary C WatersARTICLENew Community2024Cited by: 8References: 42

    In this article we address some of the controversies that have arisen in the reception of Richard Alba’s work on changing patterns of ethnoracial diversity and the integration of immigrants. We parse some of the debates around the term ‘assimilation’, arguing that it is still a useful term for understanding the trajectories of immigrants and their descendants. We argue that Alba’s demographic analyses of the incorporation of post 1965 immigrants …

  • Global commerce, immigration and diversity: A New York story

    Philip KasinitzARTICLEEthnic and Racial Studies2023

    Since the beginning of European settlement, New York’s role as a centre of capitalist accumulation has been tied to international migration. Immigration has accounted for much of its population growth and the local culture is, by US standards, unusually cosmopolitan. Institutions, traditions and political accommodations created by earlier waves of migrants have shaped the life chances of later newcomers. At the same time, New York has long been h…

  • The Du Boisian Turn

    Open AccessPhilip KasinitzARTICLESociological Forum2022

  • Race, Legal Status & Social Mobility

    Open AccessMary C Waters, Philip KasinitzARTICLEDaedalus2021Cited by: 6

    In this essay, we review what is known about the role of race and legal status in the incorporation of immigrants in twenty-first-century America. While race and ethnicity matter in the social mobility of immigrants, racialization is not the impassable stumbling block critical race theory predicts. The research paints a remarkably consistent picture of intergenerational socioeconomic progress, one that is very similar to what happened with immigr…

  • Immigrants, the Arts, and the “Second- Generation Advantage” in New York

    Philip KasinitzCHAPTERNew York and Amsterdam2020

    This chapter explores the role that New York's immigrants, and more importantly their children, have played in fostering cultural innovation in the arts, broadly defined. It focuses primarily on two historical periods. The first section deals with the mid-twentieth century—roughly the period between 1920 and the early 1960s when the children of the huge migration of southern and eastern Europeans, who came to the city from about 1880 to 1924, wer…

  • Super-Diversity in Everyday Life

    Jan Willem Duyvendak, Nancy Foner et al.BOOKSuper-Diversity in Everyday Life2020

    Presenting several in-depth studies, this book explores how super-diversity operates in every-day relations and interactions in a variety of urban settings in Western Europe and the United States. The contributors raise a broad range of questions about the nature and effects of super-diversity. They ask if a quantitative increase in demographic diversity makes a qualitative difference in how diversity is experienced in urban neighborhoods, and wh…

  • Introduction: Super-diversity in everyday life

    Nancy Foner, Jan Willem Duyvendak et al.CHAPTERSuper-Diversity in Everyday Life2020

    In the introduction to this special issue, we consider a number of questions central to the study of super-diversity in urban contexts in Western Europe and the United States. We begin with a discussion of why the super-diversity concept has had more impact on scholarship in Western Europe than the United States, where it has had much less resonance. We explore the nature and effects of super-diversity for ongoing social relations in everyday lif…

  • Rending the “Cosmopolitan Canopy”: Covid–19 and Urban Public Space

    Open AccessPhilip KasinitzARTICLECity and Community2020Cited by: 6References: 4

  • Agora‐cide

    Open AccessPhilip KasinitzARTICLESociological Forum2020References: 2

  • The Sociologist as Intellectual

    Open AccessPhilip KasinitzARTICLECity and Community2019References: 2

  • The State of Asian America

    Open AccessPhilip KasinitzARTICLESociological Forum2019References: 1

  • Music, migration and the city

    Philip Kasinitz, M MartinielloARTICLEEthnic and Racial Studies2019Cited by: 10References: 26

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  • Immigrants! We get the Job Done: Newcomers remaking America on Broadway

    Philip KasinitzARTICLEEthnic and Racial Studies2019Cited by: 1References: 20

    The Broadway musical theatre was largely the creation of the children of immigrants. These newcomers to American culture rarely emphasized their ethnic origins and they had little interest in preserving the musical and dramatic forms of their parent's homelands. Nevertheless, while striving to produce work, they saw as distinctly "American" these artists reimagined and reinvented "American" traditions. They also drew on African American musical f…

  • Introduction: Super-Diversity in Everyday Life

    Nancy Foner, Jan Willem Duyvendak et al.ARTICLEEthnic and Racial Studies2019Cited by: 35References: 23

    In the introduction to this special issue, we consider a number of questions central to the study of super-diversity in urban contexts in Western Europe and the United States. We begin with a discussion of why the super-diversity concept has had more impact on scholarship in Western Europe than the United States, where it has had much less resonance. We explore the nature and effects of super-diversity for ongoing social relations in everyday lif…

  • Growing Up Muslim in Europe and the United States

    medhi bozorgmehr, Mehdi Bozorgmehr et al.BOOKGrowing up Muslim in Europe and…2018

  • Gentrification and Its Discontents: The Continuing Power of Place

    Open AccessPhilip KasinitzARTICLESociological Forum2018

  • Diversity in our places, diversity in our lives

    Philip KasinitzARTICLEEthnic and Racial Studies2018References: 3

    Jimenez provides us with a detailed and on the whole optimistic description of how diversity operates in a highly diverse region in California by focusing on the reactions of long-term natives to their increasingly diverse circumstances. The work is notable for its focus on social relations and everyday life, as well as exploring what diversity means, not just for individuals but for places and communities

  • Lunch at Woolworth's? LBGT America After Marriage Equality

    Open AccessPhilip KasinitzARTICLESociological Forum2016Cited by: 1

  • Explaining Asian American achievement

    Philip KasinitzARTICLEEthnic and Racial Studies2016Cited by: 4References: 2

    Jennifer Lee and Min Zhou's The Asian American Achievement Paradox is a remarkable analysis of the educational upward mobility of Chinese and Vietnamese Americans in Los Angeles. It also provides important insights about the status of contemporary Asian Americans more generally. While critical of the 'model minority' thesis, the authors take seriously the role of culture in fostering educational attainment. However, their emphasis on immigrant se…

  • Global Cities, Local Streets: Everyday Diversity from New York to Shanghai

    Philip Kasinitz, Sharon Zukin et al.BOOKGlobal Cities, Local Streets2015

  • The urban ethnography reader

    Mitchell Duneier, Philip Kasinitz et al.BOOKThe Urban Ethnography Reader2014

  • Where We Are Going, Where We Have Been

    Open AccessPhilip KasinitzARTICLESociological Forum2014

  • People, Places, and Networks

    Open AccessPhilip KasinitzARTICLESociological Forum2014