Alba, Richard. (1990). Ethnic Identity: The Transformation of White America. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.

• A useful analysis of the changing meanings of ethnic identity for the descendants of European immigrants.

Alba, Richard, & Nee, Victor. (2003). Remaking the American Mainstream: Assimilation and Contemporary Immigration. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Bean, Frank, & Stevens, Gillian. (2003). America’s Newcomers and the Dynamics of Diversity. New York: Russell Sage.

• Two recent works that argue that the “traditional” model of assimilation remains viable.

Foner, Nancy. (2005). In a New Land: A Comparative View of Immigration. New York: NYU Press.

• A masterful analysis of immigration across time and space

Gordon, Milton. (1964). Assimilation in American Life. New York: Oxford University Press.

Herberg, Will. (1960). Protestant-Catholic-Jew: An Essay in American Religious Sociology. New York:Anchor.

• Two classic works of scholarship on assimilation, religion, and white ethnic groups.

Perlman, Joel. (2005). Italians Then, Mexicans Now. New York: Russell Sage.

• A detailed, intriguing, and rigorous comparison of immigrant groups from two different eras.

Portes, Alejandro, & Rumbaut, Richard. (2001). Ethnicities: Children of Immigrants in America. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.

Portes, Alejandro, & Rumbaut, Rubén (2001). Legacies: The Story of the Immigrant Second Generation. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Zhou, Min, & Bankston, Carl. (1998). Growing Up American: How Vietnamese Children Adapt to Life in the United States. New York: Russell Sage.

• Three outstanding works analyzing the new immigrants and the concept of segmented assimilation.