%0 Book %E Rumbaut, Rubén G. %E Portes, Alejandro, 1944- %I University of California Press ; Russell Sage Foundation %D 2001 %C Berkeley : New York %G English %@ 0520230116 %@ 9780520230118 %@ 0520230124 %@ 9780520230125 %T Ethnicities : children of immigrants in America %X The new immigration to the United States is unprecedented in its diversity of color, class, and cultural origins. Over the past few decades, the racial and ethnic composition and stratification of the American population--as well as the social meanings of race, ethnicity, and American identity--have fundamentally changed. Ethnicities, a companion volume to Rubén G. Rumbaut's and Alejandro Portes's Legacies: The Story of the Immigrant Second Generation, brings together some of the country's leading scholars of immigration and ethnicity to examine the lives and trajectories of the children of today's immigrants. The emerging ethnic groups of the United States in the 21st century are being formed in this process, with potentially profound societal impacts. Whether this new ethnic mosaic reinvigorates the nation or spells a quantum leap in its social problems depends on the social and economic incorporation of this still young population.