Assimilation
An Alternative History
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4155778 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Philis M Barragán Goetz (Texas A&M University–San Antonio , San Antonio, Texas, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 109 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 682-683 |
| Publication date | 2022-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of American History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8723 • E-ISSN: 1945-2314 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/jahist/jaac407 |
| OpenAlex | W4311807596 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
Catherine S. Ramírez's Assimilation provides a significant intervention in how we theorize and define assimilation and understand its impact in the United States' past and present. Traditionally, assimilation has been associated with immigration in the sense that immigrants, over multiple generations, integrate themselves into mainstream society, navigating various linguistic, cultural, and citizenship boundaries. Drawing from an array of primary sources and wide-ranging multidisciplinary scholarship, Ramírez makes two significant interventions to our understanding of assimilation. First, she “decouples” assimilation from immigration and excavates its relationship to racialization, examining what it has meant for nonimmigrant people of color. Second, Ramírez characterizes assimilation as a paradox and defines it as a relational process “whereby the boundary between unequal groups and between inside and outside blurs, disappears, or, paradoxically, is reinforced” (p. 15). Throughout the text, Ramírez demonstrates that these boundaries fade enough for those deemed alien citizens and “probationary citizens”—such as Native Americans, African Americans, Asian Americans, Latinx populations, Dreamers, and undocuqueers—to incorporate themselves into the U.S. economy, but they will always be incorporated as outsiders in U.S. society. “Assimilation is not so much a matter of absorption and becoming more alike,” Ramírez argues, as much as it is about “power and inequality” (p. 14
Archaeology · Assimilation (phonology · Citizenship · Cultural assimilation · Immigration · Linguistics · Mainstream · Political science · Politics · Race (biology · Racialization · Scholarship · Sociology · Gender Studies · History · Latin American and Latino Studies · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Race, History, and American Society
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| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,6 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2025 (5) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |