‘Race’ Attacks the Melting‐Pot: The United States

We examine whether low-skilled immigration to the United States has contributed to immigrants' residential isolation by reducing native demand for public schools. We address endogeneity in school demographics using established Mexican settlement patterns in California and use a comparison group to account for immigration's broader effects. We estimate that between 1970 and 2000, the average California school district lost more than 14 non-Hispanic households with children to other districts in its metropolitan area for every 10 additional households enrolling low-English Hispanics in its public schools. By disproportionately isolating children, the native reaction to immigration may have longer-run consequences than previously thought. (JEL H75, I21, J15, J24, J61, R23)

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’Det er easy at tale engelsk også’. Amerikadansk i 1960’erne og 1970’erne

NyS Nydanske Sprogstudier ◽

10.7146/nys.v47i47.19916 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 47 (47) ◽

pp. 39 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Karoline Kühl

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

World War I ◽

20Th Century ◽

The United States ◽

Rapid Decline ◽

Language Loss ◽

World War ◽

Melting Pot ◽

Post War ◽

American Society

The conditions for the Danish language among Danish emigrants and their descendants in the United States in the first half of the 20th century were tough: The group of Danish speakers was relatively small, the Danes did not settle together as other immigrant groups did, and demographic circumstances led many young, unmarried Danish men to marry non-Danish speaking partners. These were all factors that prevented the formation of tight-knit Danish-speaking communities. Furthermore, US nationalistic propaganda in the wake of World War I and the melting-pot effect of post-war American society in the 1950s contributed to a rapid decline in the use of Danish among the emigrants. Analyses of recordings of 58 Danish-American speakers from the 1970s show, however, that the language did not decline in an unsystematic process of language loss, only to be replaced quickly and effectively by English. On the contrary, the recordings show contactinduced linguistic innovations in the Danish of the interviewees, which involve the creation of specific lexical and syntactical American Danish features that systematically differ from Continental Danish. The article describes and discusses these features, and gives a thorough account of the socioeconomic and linguistic conditions for this speaker group.

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The Melting Pot of the Pacific

The Color of Success ◽

10.23943/princeton/9780691157825.003.0008 ◽

2013 ◽

Author(s):

Ellen D. Wu

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

World War Ii ◽

Indigenous Population ◽

Ethnically Diverse ◽

Asian Population ◽

The United States ◽

World War ◽

Melting Pot ◽

The Pacific ◽

Racial Harmony

This chapter deals with the concept of Hawaiʻi as a racial paradise. In the 1920s and 1930s, intellectuals began to tout the islands' ethnically diverse composition—including the indigenous population, white settler colonists, and imported labor from Asia and other locales—as a Pacific melting pot free of the mainland's social taboos on intermingling. After World War II, the association of Hawaiʻi with racial harmony and tolerance received unprecedented national attention as Americans heatedly debated the question of whether or not the territory, annexed to the United States in 1898, should become a state. Statehood enthusiasts tagged the islands' majority Asian population, with its demonstrated capability of assimilation, as a forceful rationale for admission.

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Cultural Communications of Mainland United States-Based Organizations and Their Hawaiian Workforces

Cases on Performance Improvement Innovation - Advances in Business Strategy and Competitive Advantage ◽

10.4018/978-1-7998-3673-5.ch010 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 173-190

Author(s):

Erik S. Wright ◽

Rose Baker

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Cultural Values ◽

Cultural Differences ◽

The United States ◽

Cultural Analysis ◽

Communication Styles ◽

Great Success ◽

Melting Pot ◽

Unique Challenge ◽

Doing Business

The Hawaiian Islands are a diverse melting pot of people, cultures, and languages that make doing business in the state a unique challenge for organizations based on the mainland United States. While Hawaii is indeed the 50th state in the union, culturally they are more closely aligned with Asia and other Polynesian cultures than the United States as a whole. Doing business in Hawaii can often feel as though one is doing business in a foreign country, a place where one only partially speaks the language. Understanding these cultural differences and shaping communication styles to align with the cultural values of the Hawaiian sub-culture is essential to success for any organization planning to start operations in Hawaii. Through a process of cultural analysis, organizations can more effectively manage change within their operations and engage their Hawaiian workforces with great success.

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Mosaic or Melting Pot? Race and Juror Decision Making in Canada and the United States

Journal of Interpersonal Violence ◽

10.1177/0886260520917512 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 088626052091751

Author(s):

Evelyn M. Maeder ◽

Laura A. McManus

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Native American ◽

Racial Inequality ◽

The United States ◽

Juror Decision Making ◽

Melting Pot ◽

Stability And Control ◽

Canadian Native ◽

Trial Transcript ◽

And Control

Although Canada and the United States both demonstrate significant overrepresentation of racialized groups in prisons, the overrepresented groups vary by country, potentially signifying results of the countries’ different (though similarly problematic) histories of racial inequality. The present study investigated this issue within a jury context by assessing the influence of defendant race on Canadian and American participants’ verdicts in an assault trial. We also examined mock jurors’ attributions of the defendant’s behavior and their perceptions of the cultural criminal stereotype for each racial group. Canadian and American participants ( N = 198) read a trial transcript in which the defendant’s race (i.e., Black, White, or Aboriginal Canadian/Native American) was manipulated, and then completed measures of attributions and stereotypes. Results demonstrated that although verdicts did not significantly differ as a function of defendant race or country, stability and control attributions did vary between Canadian and American participants, as did racial stereotypes. In addition, defendant race affected internal versus external attributions, regardless of country. These findings suggest that race may play a role in jurors’ perceptions of defendants, but that in some ways, this varies by country, potentially accounting for some of the differences found between existing Canadian and American jury studies.

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Structural Opportunity or Ethnic Advantage? Immigrant Business Development in New York

International Migration Review ◽

10.1177/019791838902300103 ◽

1989 ◽

Vol 23 (1) ◽

pp. 48-72 ◽

Cited By ~ 22

Author(s):

Roger Waldinger

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

New York ◽

Small Business ◽

Ethnic Groups ◽

The United States ◽

Business Development ◽

Business Activity ◽

West Indians ◽

Melting Pot ◽

Small Manufacturer

Research on ethnic enterprise emerged in the United States as part of an attempt to explain the historical differences in business activity between blacks and other ethnic groups. In Beyond the Melting Pot, Glazer and Moynihan argued that “the small shopkeeper, small manufacturer, or small entrepreneur of any kind played such an important role in the rise of immigrant groups in America that its absence from the Negro community warrants at least some discussion.”1 Glazer and Moynihan offered some brief, possible explanations, but the first extended treatment came with the publication of Ivan Light's now classic comparison of Blacks, not with Jews, Italians, or Irish, but with immigrants—Japanese, Chinese, West Indians—whose racial characteristics made them equally distinctive; the argument developed an imaginative variant of the Weber thesis, showing that it was ethnic solidarism, not individualism, that gave these immigrants an “elective affinity” with the requirements of small business.

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