Word: assimilationism
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His pal Bob Fosse gave Herb Gardner the nickname Whimsy. But Gardner, 58, reveals a far deeper writer in this story of a Jewish barkeep in Lower Manhattan who is sure that success will come from assimilation, endless self- reinvention and unstinting faith in the American Dream. The tale, narrated...
The survey, based on interviews with more than 2,800 Hispanics nationwide, found that most so-called Hispanics and Latinos don't think of themselves in those terms. More than two-thirds prefer national-origin labels such as Mexican American. Debunking stereotypes, the survey found a high degree of assimilation...
Colonialism (along with its inevitable handmaidens--economic and cultural subordination) is the central concern which informs much of their work. Their leitmotif is exile (its corollaries, dispossession and displacement) and the attempt to resolve the enigma of arrival and assimilation in a culture not their own. Their focus is still...
Throughout American history, newcomers assimilated to this model, despite the doubts and hostility of their hosts. At the turn of the century, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge was worried that East European immigrants labored under a "Byzantine" inheritance that would make them inimical to republican rule. Sixty years earlier, Protestant mobs...
For some reason, most major American plays center on conflict between fathers and sons. That terrain is revisited touchingly if without revelations in UNFINISHED STORIES, which retraces a classic immigrant generational cycle: from unyielding tradition to relentless assimilation to fervent rediscovery of old ways. Earnestly written by Sybille Pearson and...