01844cam a2200265 a 450000100070000000500170000700800410002402000220006502000250008705000240011208200150013610000210015124500790017226001080025130000250035950400510038450500650043552008010050065000310130165100470133265000400137965100560141965000430147565100600151812823420230410121136.0010222s2006    dcu      b    001 0 eng d  a1596980265 (pbk.)  a9781596980266 (pbk.)14aJV 6455bB265n 200600a305.9/06911 aBarone, Michael.14aThe new Americans :bhow the melting pot can work again /cMichael Barone.  aWashington, DC :bRegnery Pub.aLanham, MD :bDistributed to the trade by National Book Network,c2006.  axi, 340 p. ;c23 cm.  aIncludes bibliographical references and index.0 aIrish and blacks -- Italians and latinos -- Jews and Asians.  aSometimes in this century, we are told, the United States will become a "majority-minority" country -that is, a nation where whites make up less than 50 percent of the population. Many belive this signals a fundamental change in America. Does it? Is the melting pot a thing of the past? Absolutely not, say political historian Michael Barone. In The new Americans, Barone reminds us that the United States has never been a homogeneous, monoethnic nation. He reveals how the new Americans of today can be interwoven into the fabric of American life just as immigrants have been interwoven throughout U.S. history. If we heed the lessons of America's past -and avoid misguided policies and programs that hinder rather than help assimilation- the melting pot can work as well today as it always has. 0aImmigrantszUnited States. 0aUnited StatesxEmigration and immigration. 0aImmigrantszUnited StatesxHistory. 0aUnited StatesxEmigration and immigrationxHistory. 4aInmigranteszEstados UnidosxHistoria. 4aEstados UnidosxEmigración e inmigraciónxHistoria.