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Immigrant Perceptions of U.S.-Born Receptivity and the Shaping of American Identity
Michael Jones-Correa, Helen B. Marrow, Dina G. Okamoto, Linda R. Tropp
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences August 2018, 4 (5) 47-80; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2018.4.5.03
Michael Jones-Correa
aPresident’s Distinguished Professor of Political Science and director of the Center for the Study of Ethnicity, Race, and Immigration at the University of Pennsylvania
Helen B. Marrow
bAssociate professor of sociology at Tufts University
Dina G. Okamoto
cClass of 1948 Herman B. Wells Professor in the Department of Sociology and director of the Center for Research on Race and Ethnicity in Society at Indiana University Bloomington
Linda R. Tropp
dProfessor of social psychology at University of Massachusetts Amherst

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