TY - BOOK AU - Barone,Michael TI - The new Americans: how the melting pot can work again SN - 1596980265 (pbk.) AV - JV 6455 B265n 2006 U1 - 305.9/0691 PY - 2006/// CY - Washington, DC, Lanham, MD PB - Regnery Pub., Distributed to the trade by National Book Network KW - Immigrants KW - United States KW - History KW - Inmigrantes KW - Estados Unidos KW - Historia KW - Emigration and immigration KW - Emigración e inmigración N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Irish and blacks -- Italians and latinos -- Jews and Asians N2 - 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 ER -