Oscar Handlin, The Uprooted, 2nd enl. ed. ( Boston, 1973), 271.
2.
Handlin situated Puerto Ricans with African Americans and suggested that those groups are just the latest wave of immigrant-like newcomers and would assimilate accordingly. Handlin, The Newcomers: Negroes and Puerto Ricans in a Changing Metropolis (Cambridge , 1959), 118.
3.
John T.McGreevy, ParishBoundaries: The Catholic Encounter with Race in the Twentieth-Century Urban North, Historical Studies of Urban America ( Chicago, 1996), 1-5.
4.
Other scholars of Jewish liberalism have attributed their political choices to their desire for acculturation. See Marc Dollinger, Quest for Inclusion: Jews and Liberalism in Modern America ( Princeton, NJ, 2000), 4.
