# Reinventing the Melting Pot

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- Authors: [Tamar Jacoby](https://www.bookquiver.com/tamar-jacoby)
- Publisher: basic_books
- ISBN: 978-04-6503-635-6
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2004-12-01
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

In Reinventing the Melting Pot , twenty-one of the writers who have thought longest and hardest about immigration come together around a surprising consensus: yes, immigrant absorption still works-and given the number of newcomers arriving today, the nation's future depends on it. But it need not be incompatible with ethnic identity-and we as a nation need to find new ways to talk about and encourage becoming American. In the wake of 9/11 it couldn't be more important to help these newcomers find a way to fit in. Running through these essays is a single common theme: Although ethnicity plays a more important role now than ever before, today's newcomers can and will become Americans and enrich our national life-reinventing the melting pot and reminding us all what we have in common.