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The New Americans: How the Melting Pot Can Work Again Paperback – July 1, 2006

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July 1, 2006
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1596980265
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Every American who wants to understand the hope for our future... needs to read this book. -- Newt Gingrich

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Regnery Publishing (July 1, 2006)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 340 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1596980265
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1596980266
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 15.7 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.9 x 9 inches

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Andrew D. Selee

A provocative plan to ensure immigration works for everyone

Reviewed in the United States on April 16, 2018

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Another brilliant book from Michael Barone — this time training his sights on how native-born and new Americans can make immigration work for everyone.

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Christopher J. Norris

So Much Better Than Blogs

Reviewed in the United States on July 16, 2015

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A very detailed prequel to Shaping Our Nation, which I read twice previously. Barone reinforces my gut feel that immigrants are the most appreciative Americans because they have lived the alternatives. So has this Old White Guy who spent 11 years in Oman. Never give up your American passport.

Reviewed in the United States on July 28, 2003

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The idea behind this book is an interesting one. Mr. Barone suggests that, although some fear the recent influx of immigrants to the United States, there's really nothing to worry about if we learn the lessons of history. Three of the largest immigrant populations from the early part of the 20th century, he points out, have "woven themselves" into mainstream American life with great success. Now, three large "new" populations can do the same, based on their similarities to those who came before. The black population ("immigrant" in the sense that it moved from the rural South, practically a foreign country, to the industrial North) can weave itself into mainstream American life as the Irish did, the Latino population as the Italians did, and the Asian population as the Jews did. Sounds pretty good, and Barone has plenty of statistical and historical evidence to support himself. Then he goes and ruins it with a political bias he claims he doesn't have.
I can easily believe that the groups he mentions have as much in common as he says. Long before he wrote this book, we Jews knew perfectly well that the Asians were very much like us, and I'm told the Asians knew it too, so the notion that the blacks and Irish, or the Latinos and Italians, share the same parallels seems quite natural. Mr. Barone makes good use of statistics to point up these parallels, showing that intermarriage rates climb over the generations, school dropout rates tend to fall, and a number of other factors similarly indicate that immigrant groups gradually join the American melting pot. On the other hand, he points up the vast contributions that immigrants make to American culture and progress, even when they are subject to bigotry and inconvenience; I was not aware, for instance, that a lot of what we now consider to be old-style American ways are actually Irish.
The point of all this, according to Mr. Barone, is that American policy of the early 1900's gave immigrant groups the incentive and means to work their way up the social ladder by teaching English to those who did not know it, forcing immigrant groups to follow the law when their native folkways did not require it, and things of that nature. If we believe that assertion, it follows (says Mr. Barone) that the current emphasis on respect for native culture only keeps immigrant groups separate. So away with bilingual education and affirmative action, and the sooner the better.
Sounds familiar, this argument. It's classic Republican conservative doctrine. Which doesn't mean it's wrong, of course. In a book like this, though, I'd prefer an author who didn't simply assume it was right.
That is, "The New Americans" begins with the assumption that bilingual education, affirmative action, and overcautiousness regarding racism are ineffective, without bothering to provide any evidence that that assumption is true. The book also begins with the assumption that what worked in the 1920's will automatically work in this decade, similarly without providing any evidence. We've come a long way in that 80 years, conquering a good portion of the racism that plagued this country and realizing that our government doesn't always know what's best, but Mr. Barone seems to want to import the old doctrine of "Americanization" without any further inquiry. A little naive, if nothing else.
What's more, Mr. Barone has an unpleasant habit of attributing the worst of motives to those he disagrees with. In his discussion of the Latino immigration numbers, for instance, he notes the huge upsurge in Latino citizenship in about 1995 due to President Clinton's amnesty for illegal aliens, and dutifully reports that Clinton implemented the amnesty so that all those new Latino citizens could vote for him in the next election. It doesn't seem to occur to him that Clinton might have been motivated by an impulse to do the right thing, or even by a combination of motives.
Most annoying to me personally, I might as well admit, is his explanation of Jewish voting habits. Jews are frequently business owners and professionals, and if they voted strictly according to their own self-interest might be expected to support tax cuts and libertarian policies. Why do they remain overwhelmingly liberal? Not because their consciences call them to do so, says Mr. Barone. It's because they remember down the generations the injustices of Imperial Russia, whence many of their ancestors came, and vote Democratic because they are "still voting against the Tsar." See the implication? No one in his right mind would be a liberal; those Jews retain "dysfunctional habits of mind" or they'd go Republican. Bunch of neurotics.
And this is not Mr. Barone's attitude just toward the Jews. Everyone comes in for that sort of analysis. He uses his own political opinions as a sort of litmus test, and demonizes those who fail. Conservatives have pure motives, liberals impure, and never the twain shall meet. At least not if Michael Barone has anything to say about it.
Finally, for all his declarations of historical perspective, Mr. Barone doesn't bother to make any suggestions as to exactly how the black, Latino and Asian populations might be mainstreamed, based on the lessons learned from history or on anything else. His introduction seems to promise some fresh, or at any rate good, ideas about immigrant policy, but when it's all said and done he's content to grind up his anecdotes and statistics into conservative hamburger and let it go at that. He pretends to provide a work of popular political advocacy that turns out to be nothing more than a Republican political pamphlet. He even starts off his discussion with a jab at Al Gore. And if you think that's a coincidence, you haven't been reading the news from Washington lately.
"The New Americans" is an interesting read with a number of intriguing notions about culture and politics. In its certainty that America can absorb and provide for everyone who makes a home here, it's reassuring, even heartwarming. Maybe someday some political leader will take these ideas and design a new "Americanization" program that works in a just and fair manner for all. On the evidence of this book, that leader will not be Michael Barone.
Benshlomo says, The really dangerous propagandists are the reasonable ones.

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Barone shows us how similar our issues around immigration today are to those of 1900

Reviewed in the United States on August 23, 2006

With all the agitation around immigration it is important to have as much actual information as possible rather than getting sucked in by old impressions and media slant. Michael Barone is one of our generation's treasures. He knows a great deal about our country and its politics because he has devoted a lifetime to the study of our history, our culture, and our politics. He says what he says the way he says it in order to inform rather than couching things carefully to win you to a certain point of view.

This book shows us that immigration has caused national concern in the past, that the concept of race, always useless and harmful, was once extended to the Irish and Italians, and that the integration of these groups into our national identity took many decades. Our present perspective on the mix of "nationalities" does not represent how it appeared to our ancestors any more than our present views will be held by our descendants.

That isn't to say that there aren't cultural differences. Some help the immigrating people to do well in the American culture, and others slow integration and hold back economic progress. Barone is not shy in letting us know what the facts are about the actual history of these groups as they made their migrations. However, much of what he says will surprise you because the facts do not agree with popular media representations or the popular myths many of us have accepted all our lives because we were told them as children.

Barone points out how similar our immigration issues today are to those on 1900. He compares how the African-American migration from the south over the past 50 years is quite similar to what the Irish experiences more than a century ago and why. He compares the Italian experience with Latinos today (while admitting that the number of Latinos coming into our nation is unprecedented by any previous migration), and that the Jewish experience in becoming part of the American mainstream has interesting parallels with the Asian progress of the past several decades.

This book will inform you and affirm your comfort with the idea of immigration in America. Barone does NOT address the issues about controlling our borders. Nor does he focus on the economic costs of our welfare society and uncontrolled immigration. His focus is on the realities of past immigrations, that it was not all easy and simple in the past so we can't expect it to be easy and simple today, but that America has a great power to mainstream the second and third generation of immigrants. Let's home his positive attitude is correct. I found the actual history of American immigration to be fascinating and quite different than my notions of it were. For this alone, you should read this book.

Given the importance of immigration in our current national debate, if you want to be sure that you have the right information to understand the issues you need to read this book. I urge you to get a copy and read it from cover to cover. It is not hard to read. In fact, I found it to be a page turner and full of great information.

Strongly recommended!

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