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Assimilation (Sociology)

Here are entered works on the absorption of a minority group into the culture, values, and social behaviors of the dominant culture. Works on cultural change caused by prolonged contact between social groups, leading to a change in one or both cultures, are entered under Acculturation. Works on the often unacknowledged or inappropriate adoption of elements of a minority culture by members of a dominant culture are entered under Cultural appropriation.

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• Anthropology
• Socialization

• Acculturation
• Emigration and immigration
• Minorities

• Assimilation (Sociology) -- Fiction
• Assimilation (Sociology) -- United States
• Americanization
• Emigration and immigration -- Psychological aspects
• Immigrants -- Cultural assimilation
• Indigenous peoples -- Cultural assimilation
• Marginality, Social

• The Rise of David Levinsky, by Abraham Cahan (Gutenberg text)

• Underlife (London: Snowbooks, 2008), by Robert Finn (multiple formats with commentary at snowbooks.com)

• America Beyond Black and White: How Immigrants and Fusions Are Helping Us Overcome the Racial Divide (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2007), by Ronald Fernandez (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Ways of the Hobo (6th edition; Erie, PA: A-No.1 Pub. Co., c1915), by A-No. 1 (page images at HathiTrust)

• Learn About the United States: Quick Civics Lessons for the Naturalization Test (2013), by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (PDF at uscis.gov)
• Dislocalism: The Crisis of Globalization and the Remobilizing of Americanism (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2011), by Sarika Chandra (PDF at Ohio State)
• Americanization Through Homemaking (Los Angeles: Wetzel Publishing Co., 1929), by Pearl Idelia Ellis (page images at LOC)
• The Italians in Chicago: A Study in Americanization (Chicago: Italian American Pub Co., 1928), by Giovanni Ermenegildo Schiavo, contrib. by Jane Addams, illust. by Rocco D. Navigato (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Church and the Immigrant (New York: G. H. Doran Co., c1921), by Georgia Elma Harkness, contrib. by G. W. Tupper (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Revolutionary Radicalism: Its History, Purpose and Tactics; With an Exposition and Discussion of the Steps Being Taken and Required to Curb It (4 volumes; Albany: J. B. Lyon and Co., 1920), by New York (State) Legislature Joint Committee Investigating Seditious Activities
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV: multiple formats at archive.org

• The Immigrants in America Review (full serial archives)

• Women and Migration: Responses in Art and History (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2019), ed. by Deborah Willis, Ellyn Toscano, and Kalia Brooks Nelson (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• Britishness, Belonging and Citizenship: Experiencing Nationality Law (Bristol, UK: Policy Press, University of Bristol, c2018), by Devyani Prabhat (PDF with commentary at oapen.org)

• Becoming Europe: Immigration, Integration, and The Welfare State (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c2004), by Patrick R. Ireland (page images at Pitt)

• Native Traditions in the Postconquest World, ed. by Elizabeth Hill Boone and Tom Cummins (PDF with commentary at doaks.org)

• American Indian Persistence and Resurgence (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1994), ed. by Karl Kroeber (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Brief Account of the Proceedings of the Committee, Appointed By the Yearly Meeting of Friends, Held in Baltimore, for Promoting the Improvement and Civilization of the Indian Natives (1806), by Baltimore Yearly Meeting of the Society of Friends (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Indian Civilization (Philadelphia: Bible and Tract Distributing Society, 1877), by Stanley Pumphrey (page images at MOA)

• Marginality: Addressing the Nexus of Poverty, Exclusion and Ecology (c2014), ed. by Joachim Von Braun and Franz W. Gatzweiler (multiple formats with commentary at SpringerLink)
• Digital Economies at Global Margins (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press; Ottawa et al.: International Development Research Centre, c2019), ed. by Mark Graham (PDF at idrc.ca)
• Creep: A Life, A Theory, An Apology (Earth: Punctum Books, c2017), by Jonathan Alexander (PDF with commentary at Punctum Books)
• The Construction of Minorities: Cases for Comparison Across Time and Around the World (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2001), ed. by André Burguière and Raymond Grew (page images at HathiTrust)

• Technology of the Oppressed: Inequity and the Digital Mundane in Favelas of Brazil (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2022), by David Nemer (PDF files with commentary at MIT Press)

• The Report of the International Commission for Central American Recovery and Development: Poverty, Conflict, and Hope, A Turning Point in Central America (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1989), by International Commission for Central American Recovery and Development (page images at HathiTrust)

• Certain Other Countries: Homicide, Gender, and National Identity in Late Nineteenth-Century England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2007), by Carolyn Conley (PDF at Ohio State)

• Diaspora Without Homeland: Being Korean in Japan (c2009), ed. by Sonia Ryang and John Lie (PDF with commentary at escholarship.org)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Changing the Terms: Translating in the Postcolonial Era (c2000), ed. by Sherry Simon and Paul St-Pierre (PDF with commentary at Ottawa)
• Big Bead Mesa: An Archaeological Study of Navaho Acculturation, 1745-1812 (Memoirs of the Society for American Archaeology #1; 1941), by Dorothy Louise Keur (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Wage, Trade, and Exchange in Melanesia: A Manus Society in the Modern State (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989), by James G. Carrier and Achsah H. Carrier (HTML at UC Press)

• To Be An American: Cultural Pluralism and the Rhetoric of Assimilation (New York and London: New York University Press, c1997), by Bill Ong Hing (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)

• Census of State Government Initiatives for High-Technology Industrial Development (1983), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
• Patents in the Knowledge-Based Economy (c2003), ed. by Wesley Marc Cohen and Stephen A. Merrill (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Information Systems Related to Technology Transfer: A Report on Federal Technology Transfer in the United States (Washington: GPO, 1994), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
• Federal Technology Transfer and the Human Genome Project (1995), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton
• Breakthrough Dividend: Israel Innovations in Biotechnology That Could Benefit Americans (c1995), by Irvin M. Asher, ed. by Mitchell Geoffrey Bard (HTML at Jewish Virtual Library)
• Dual-Use Technologies and Export Administration in the Post-Cold War Era (1994), by National Research Council Office of International Affairs (page images with commentary at NAP)
• High-Stakes Aviation: U.S.-Japan Technology Linkages in Transport Aircraft (1994), by National Research Council Office of International Affairs (page images with commentary at NAP)
• Patents in the Knowledge-Based Economy (c2003), ed. by Wesley Marc Cohen and Stephen A. Merrill (page images with commentary at NAP)
• Korea's Strategy for Leadership in Research and Development (1997) (PDF at ta.doc.gov)
• Fueling Reform: Energy Technologies for the Former East Bloc (1994), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton

• Monitoring and Controlling the International Transfer of Technology (1998), by James Bonomo, Julia Lowell, John Pinder, Katharine Watkins Webb, Jessie Saul, Peter Cannon, Jennifer Sloan McCombs, and David M. Adamson (PDF files at rand.org)

• Agricultural Research and Technology Transfer Policies for the 1990s (1990), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• The Stubborn Earth: American Agriculturalists on Chinese Soil, 1898-1937 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988), by Randall E. Stross (HTML at UC Press)

• Agricultural Research and Technology Transfer Policies for the 1990s (1990), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Safeguarding Defense Technology, Enabling Commerce: A New Balance in the New Economy (Washington: AEI Press, 2001), by Sean Cropsey (PDF at AEI)

• Export Controls and Nonproliferation Policy (1994), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Democratizing Innovation (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, c2005), by Eric von Hippel (PDF files at MIT)
• Information and Telecommunication Technologies: The Impact of Their Adoption on Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (1996), by Elisabeth Lefebvre and Louis A. Lefebvre (PDF with commentary at idrc.ca)

• Fulfilling the Promise of Technology Transfer: Fostering Innovation for the Benefit of Society (c2013), ed. by Koichi Hishida (multiple formats with commentary at SpringerLink)
• Mathematical Sciences, Technology, and Economic Competitivenes (1991), ed. by James G. Glimm (page images with commentary at NAP)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.