Transforming Politics, Transforming America: The Political and Civic Incorporation of Immigrants in the United States

Book Overview

Over the past four decades, the foreign-born population in the United States has nearly tripled, from about 10 million in 1965 to more than 30 million today. This wave of new Americans comes in disproportionately large numbers from Latin America and Asia, a pattern that is likely to continue in this century. In Transforming Politics, Transforming America, editors Taeku Lee, S. Karthick Ramakrishnan, and Ricardo Ram rez bring together the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813925541
• ISBN13: 9780813925547
• Release Date: October 2007
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.5" x 9.1"