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Making Americans: Schooling, Diversity, and Assimilation in the Twenty-First Century

Cristina L. Lash
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences August 2018, 4 (5) 99-117; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2018.4.5.05
Cristina L. Lash
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    • SCHOOLING, ASSIMILATION, AND NATION-MAKING
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    • FROM THEORY TO PRACTICE: LIMITED ASSIMILATION AT CASTRO
    • ASSIMILATION AND STUDENT NATIONAL IDENTIFICATION
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