A Korean street child is adopted into an upper-middle-class suburban home. A Vietnamese monk dishes up fast food to fund a spiritual center. A woman saves for a home back in Ghana; where she will never live. All are immigrants to the United States; known to most of their fellow Americans only as statistics. The stories that statistics can't tell unfold in this book; in which twenty-three recent immigrants recall navigating the paradoxes; pitfalls; and triumphs of becoming Americans. Candid; evocative; and richly detailed; their oral histories comprise a compelling portrait of the changing face of the American population.In venues from the San Francisco Chronicle to the New York Times; Ellen Alexander Conley's fiction has been hailed as "wonderful;" "impassioned;" and "memorable." Conley brings the same passion and skill to her depiction of our nation's most recent arrivals. These personal histories; along with Conley's thoughtful overview of literature on immigration; give us a firsthand sense of what it means to become an American.
#717765 in Books Charles Tilly 1999-09-01Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 9.00 x .73 x 6.00l; .80 #File Name: 0520221702310 pagesDurable Inequality
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0 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Five StarsBy CustomerArrived on time and as described.2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. http://www..com/gp/product/0520221702/ref=cm_cr_ryp_prd_ttl_sol_1By eckhard dittrichCharles Tilly; Durable Inequality is an excellent book. Good to use in seminars of sociology on the MA level. Good writing and easily to be understood by students.2 of 3 people found the following review helpful. Great bookBy M. Spitzer-RubensteinIt explains how inequality is formed and reinforced and why society will never be perfectly equal but how things aren't set in stone. A professor recommended it to me as a way of thinking about inequality and it hit the mark.
