01916cam a2200301 a 4500 128234 20230410121136.0 010222s2006 dcu b 001 0 eng d 1596980265 (pbk.) 9781596980266 (pbk.) JV 6455 B265n 2006 305.9/0691 Barone, Michael. The new Americans : how the melting pot can work again / Michael Barone. Washington, DC : Regnery Pub. Lanham, MD : Distributed to the trade by National Book Network, 2006. xi, 340 p. ; 23 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. Irish and blacks -- Italians and latinos -- Jews and Asians. Sometimes 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. Immigrants United States. United States Emigration and immigration. Immigrants United States History. United States Emigration and immigration History. Inmigrantes Estados Unidos Historia. Estados Unidos Emigración e inmigración Historia. lcc bk rsfv 58787 58787 0 0 lcc 0 0 CS BJB BJB CS 2023-04-10 1 0 JV 6455 B265n 2006 00000121420 2018-10-24 00:00:00 1 2018-10-24 bk