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In Reinventing the Melting Pot, twenty-one of the writers who have thought longest and hardest about American immigration come together around a surprising consensus They conclude that immigrant absorption still works - and given the number of newcomers arriving in the US today, the nation's future depends on it. On the other hand they believe that immigration need not be incompatible with ethnic identity - and that as a nation America needs to find new ways to talk about and encourage becoming American. In the wake of 9/11 it couldn't be more important to help these newcomers find a way to fit in. Running through these essays is a single common theme: although ethnicity plays a more important role now than ever before, today's newcomers can and will become American

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Careful, reasoned assessments of the current state of immigration and immigrants in a nation that constantly renews itself with newcomers. Los Angles Times Tamar Jacoby has assembled an all-star team of scholars and journalists-including Michael Barone, Stanley Crouch, Pete Hamill, Nathan Glazer and Stephan Thernstrom... This important book shows that there is nothing more American than a debate over what it means to be an American. Vincent J. Cannato, The Wall Street Journal

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Tamar Jacoby is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and author of Someone Else's House: America's Unfinished Struggle for Integration. Formerly on staff at the New York Times and Newsweek, she writes widely for several publications. She lives in New Jersey, USA.

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