An exhaustive new work by more than two dozen American scholars...It's a careful, learned work aimed at educating us all as to who Americans really are these days...For those reporting on, working with or leading this increasingly diverse nation, The New Americans will serve as a thorough primer to the nuances, challenges and opportunities at hand.
   --Robert Behre, Charleston Post and Courier

The book is a useful primer; at once a wealth of information and a telling snapshot of current academic opinion on that all-important topic, assimilation.
   --Tamar Jacoby, New York Post

There is not a weak or disappointing essay in the book...Waters and Ueda have succeeded in their goal of updating The Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups. My copy of The New Americans now sits next to that venerable old guide, as it should for any scholar of the American immigrant experience.
   --Peter Kivisto, Ethnic and Racial Studies

photo of Mary C. Waters (top), Reed Ueda (below)

Mary C. Waters is M. E. Zukerman Professor of Sociology at Harvard University.

Reed Ueda is Professor of History, Tufts University, and author of Postwar Immigrant America.

Helen B. Marrow is a Lecturer, Committee on Degrees in Social Studies, Harvard University.

Read More by Mary C. Waters:

• Black Identities: West Indian Immigrant Dreams and American Realities
• Inheriting the City: The Children of Immigrants Come of Age

Read More by Reed Ueda:

• Immigration
• Prejudice

Read More by Helen B. Marrow:

• The Other Latinos