Ends of Assimilation examines how Chicano literature imagines the conditions and costs of cultural change, arguing that its thematic preoccupation with assimila

In this age of multicultural democracy, the idea of assimilation--that the social distance separating immigrants and their children from the mainstream of Ameri

Salins argues that assimilation is part of a larger American social compact that has flourished throughout our history, and to abandon it now would destroy the

From the late nineteenth century, Japan sought to incorporate the Korean Peninsula into its expanding empire. Japan took control of Korea in 1910 and ruled it u

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