Becoming American:

Ethnic Politics and the New, New Immigration

I.          Introduction: 

A.  Assimilation vs. Cultural Pluralism

B.  Acculturation

II.        Shaping New Identities

A.  After-effects of the 1924 Act

B.  Acculturation and the Great Depression

1.  economic conditions

2.  political parties

3.  demographic change

4.  mass culture

C.  The Other Americans

III.       The New Ethnicity

A.  Indian Activism

B.  Latino Political Power

C.  Asian Political Power

IV.       1965 IMMIGRATION ACT

A.  The New, New Immigrants

B.  Immigration Reform

C.  Beneficiaries of Reform:  Asians

1.  A Case Study:  Monterey Park

a.  The New Chinese Immigrant

b.  Intra-Asian Conflict

V.        The Immigration Debate Today:  High Tech vs. Low Tech Workers