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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
aDoctoral candidate at the Stanford Graduate School of Education

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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 Aug 2018, 4 (5) 99-117; DOI: 10.7758/RSF.2018.4.5.05
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- Article
- Abstract
- SCHOOLING, ASSIMILATION, AND NATION-MAKING
- METHODOLOGY
- STAFF DEFINITIONS OF AMERICAN IDENTITY
- FROM THEORY TO PRACTICE: LIMITED ASSIMILATION AT CASTRO
- ASSIMILATION AND STUDENT NATIONAL IDENTIFICATION
- AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDENT PERCEPTIONS OF AMERICANS
- LATINO AND ASIAN–PACIFIC ISLANDER STUDENT PERCEPTIONS OF AMERICANS
- DISCUSSION AND IMPLICATIONS
- FOOTNOTES
- REFERENCES
- Info & Metrics
- References
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