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WHO WE ARE: America Becoming and Becoming American

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 April 2006

Jennifer Lee
Jennifer Lee
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Department of Sociology, University of California, Irvine
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Samuel P. Huntington, Who Are We? The Challenges to America's National Identity. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004, 448 pages, ISBN: 0-684-86668-4, Cloth, $27.00.

Philip Kasinitz, John H. Mollenkopf, and Mary C. Waters, eds., Becoming New Yorkers: Ethnographies of the Second Generation. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2004, 448 pages, ISBN: 0-87154-436-9, Cloth, $39.95.

Mae M. Ngai, Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2003, 400 pages, ISBN: 0-691-12429-9, Paper, $19.95, and 0-691-07471-2, Cloth, $49.95.

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Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race , Volume 2 , Issue 2 , September 2005 , pp. 287 - 302
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© 2005 W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research

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