American Life: Dream and Reality. Revised edition

AbstractThe influx of Muslim immigrants into America has become steady inthe last decade, a development which raises the need for a theoretical outlookdelineating a model of an Islamic-controlled process of assimilation.Using Gordon’s model of assimilation, the paper suggests an Islamicposition regarding each of his seven types and stages of assimilation.In respect to cultural assimilation, the paper advocates an interactiveprocess of assimilation on the level of extrinsic cultural traits. Such a processutilizes six filtration procedures regarding different kinds of American culturalartifacts. But on the level of intrinsic cultural traits, the paper suggests acounterassimilation position, and considers it a cornerstone in keeping theoriginality of Islam.As to identificational assimilation, the paper defines Islamic boundariesrelevant to each of its three components: ethnic, national, and racial.The paper discusses behavior-receptional and attitude-receptional typesof assimilation in light of patterns of behavior that affect such reciprocity.The paper argues that civic assimilation is a crucial area where much ofthe Muslim community’s efforts could be invested.Finally, the paper briefly discusses marital assimilation and structuralassimilation.IntroductionAssimilation is an important subject that deserves careful considerationfrom minorities, marginal groups, and immigrants. The position of a groupon assimilation has far-reaching effects on its present and future, as well ...

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Shakespeare in American Life. Compiled and edited by Virginia Mason Vaughan and Alden T. Vaughan

Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen ◽

10.37307/j.1866-5381.2008.02.26 ◽

2008 ◽

Author(s):

Kim C. Sturgess

Keyword(s):

American Life

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The Promise of American Life

10.2307/j.ctt6wpzss ◽

2014 ◽

Author(s):

Herbert Croly

Keyword(s):

American Life

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The Insidious Momentum of American Mass Incarceration

10.1093/oso/9780197513170.001.0001 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Franklin E. Zimring

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Public Policy ◽

Twentieth Century ◽

Mass Incarceration ◽

The United States ◽

Next Generation ◽

Single Generation ◽

American Life ◽

Peak Rate ◽

Or Practice

The phenomenal growth of penal confinement in the United States in the last quarter of the twentieth century is still a public policy mystery. Why did it happen when it happened? What explains the unprecedented magnitude of prison and jail expansion? Why are the current levels of penal confinement so very close to the all-time peak rate reached in 2007? What is the likely course of levels of penal confinement in the next generation of American life? Are there changes in government or policy that can avoid the prospect of mass incarceration as a chronic element of governance in the United States? This study is organized around four major concerns: What happened in the 33 years after 1973? Why did these extraordinary changes happen in that single generation? What is likely to happen to levels of penal confinement in the next three decades? What changes in law or practice might reduce this likely penal future?

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