Explorations in Ethnic Studies
Orginal Publication Date
1979
Journal Title
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
Volume
2
Issue
ees/vol2/iss2
First Page
50
Last Page
64
Abstract
This paper reviews some of the most salient aspects of E. M. Rogg's (1974) seminal work, The Assimilation of Cuban Exiles; The Role of Community and Class--a sociological study of the Cuban community in the town of West New York in northeastern New Jersey. Although taking issue with some of the author's theses, this paper elaborates on other findings of the book in question by means of more recent participant-observation field research in the same neighborhood. For example, the new data confirms Rogg's proposition that the organized ethnic minority helps to direct the process of acculturation, though slowly.
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Copyright, ©EES, The National Association for Ethnic Studies, 1979