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This text examines how multitudes of US immigrants have adapted to a new culture while trying to preserve their ethnic identities, and how acculturation has impacted their lives and changed the cultural profile of American society. By looking at issues of specific concern to certain nationalities as well as cross-national concerns such as education and the role of women, the contributors attempt to answer questions arising from immigration and identify new challenges which must be faced as the USA becomes increasingly multilingual and multicultural. For example, they study how first-wave European immigrants, their descendants and the more recent arrivals from Asia, the Caribbean and Latin America have helped shape America's past and present history, and they pose new questions regarding assimilation and acculturation within a maturing economy.

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MICHAEL D'INNOCENZO is Professor of History at Hofstra University. Specializing in immigration and ethnic history and early American history, he is co-editor of William Cullen Bryant and His America. D'Innocenzo has published articles in American Historical Association Perspectives and the Journal of World Education. JOSEF P. SIREFMAN is a Professor in the School of Business at Hofstra University. Specializing in collective bargaining, labor arbitration, and alternate dispute resolution techniques, he co-authored Managing Faculty Disputes. He has also published articles in the Arbitration Journal.

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