For over a hundred years, the story of assimilation has animated the nation-building project of the United States. And still today, the dream or demand of a cul

In all of his works Blake struggled with the question of how chaos can be assimilated into imaginative order. Blake's own answer changed in the course of his po

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

The (not-so-strange) strangers in their midst -- Salsa and ketchup : cultural exposure and adoption -- Spotlight on white : fade to black -- Living with differe

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