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Making Americans: Schooling, Diversity, and Assimilation in the Twenty-First Century Making Americans: Schooling, Diversity, and Assimilation in the Twenty-First Century Cristina L. Lash RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, Volume 4, Number 5, August 2018, pp. 99-117 (Article) Published by Russell Sage Foundation For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/702892 [ Access provided at 2 Oct 2021 10:39 GMT with no institutional affiliation ] Making Americans: Schooling, Diversity, and Assimilation in the Twenty- First Century c ristina l. lash How do schools teach American identity in light of immigration-driven diversity? This ethnographic study focuses on everyday nation- making at Castro Middle School, located in a city transformed by immigration. Building on theories of bidirectional assimilation, I show how assimilation can produce new definitions of Americanness more recognizable to immigrant communities, facilitating their national identification. At Castro, bidirectional assimilation supported African American students’ descriptions of Americans in multi- cultural terms and their own identification as American. Assimilation between the school and the larger Latino and Asian student populations, however, was limited because of a binary racial paradigm that ex- cluded them from the national community. This study thus nuances the role of race as a barrier in the as- similation process, particularly as it unfolds in schools. Keywords: assimilation, immigration, national identity, American identity, school diversity For the past thirty years, the United States has are part of the third- plus generation of Latino witnessed the highest rates of immigration to Americans (Ruggles et al. 2017).1 These demo- the country since the late nineteenth century, graphic and cultural shifts have raised new the current wave consisting primarily of immi- questions about the role of schools in the Amer- grants from Latin America and South and East icanization process. Specifically, how do Asia. The result is that nearly a quarter of all schools teach American identity in the context students in U.S. classrooms are either immi- of immigration- driven diversity? grants or children of immigrants, many of The details of how schools “make” nation- whom speak a language other than English at als have been remarkably undertheorized home (Gándara 2013). The fastest- growing within the sociology of education literature group is Latino school- age children, of whom (Waldinger 2007), despite the prominent role 8 percent are foreign born, 52 percent are U.S. of schools in the Americanization process (for born with immigrant parents, and 40 percent exceptions, see Banks 2008; Olsen 2000). Yet Cristina L. Lash is a doctoral candidate at the Stanford Graduate School of Education. © 2018 Russell Sage Foundation. Lash, Cristina L. 2018. “Making Americans: Schooling, Diversity, and Assimi- lation in the Twenty-Fir st Century.” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 4(5): 99–117. DOI: 10.7758/RSF.2018.4.5.05. Sincere thanks are due to the National Academy of Education/Spencer Founda- tion, the Research Institute of Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, the Stanford Graduate School of Education, and the Stanford Office of the Vice Provost for Graduate Education for sponsoring this research. Direct correspondence to: Cristina L. Lash at [email protected], 485 Lasuen Mall, Stanford, CA 94305. Open Access Policy: RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences is an open access journal. This article is published under a Creative Commons Attribution- NonCommercial- NoDerivs 3.0 Unported Li- cense. 1. Author’s calculations based on the American Community Survey 2016 sample. 100 immigration and changing identities such analyses are increasingly imperative as tural terms. Race, however, remains a signifi- the changing demographies of the nation have cant barrier in the assimilation process (Portes become a source of growing conflict across the and Zhou 1993). At Castro, the staff’s desire to country. The current political climate shows a reproduce a multicultural nation was signifi- rise in white nativism and hate crimes against cantly limited by a black- white racial binary immigrants, people of color, Muslims, and paradigm in which race and diversity were con- LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) ceived almost exclusively in terms of blacks and members, including a significant spike in the whites (Perea 1997). Thus, although Castro staff days immediately following the election of consciously reduced the ethnic distance be- Donald Trump as president of the United tween the school and their small African Amer- States on November 8, 2016 (Federal Bureau of ican population, they did little to reduce the Investigation 2016; Miller and Werner- Winslow ethnic distance with their much larger Latino 2016). On top of already fierce debates and pro- and Asian student populations, limiting the tests over the ethnic content of the U.S. history process of bidirectional assimilation. curriculum, such as in Arizona and Texas in 2010 and in Colorado in 2014, the recent rise SchoolIng, assImIlatIon, and in national intergroup conflict points to the natIon- makIng challenge facing schools to teach American According to the political scientist Elizabeth identity within a demographically and cultur- Theiss- Morse, national members are able to ally shifting nation, and the need for research recognize each other based on social boundar- to examine these dynamics in context.2 ies that define the prototypical or core national This article thus focuses on the everyday (2009; see also Miller 1995). These social bound- ways that schools teach middle school stu- aries are often based on ascriptive characteris- dents what it means to be American in the con- tics, including race, ethnicity, and language text of immigration- driven diversity and pres- (Theiss-Morse 2009; Smith 1991; Anderson ents findings from an ethnographic study of 1983), but may also be based on more civic at- Castro Middle School, a diverse school in a city tributes and political beliefs, such as liberalism profoundly shaped by immigration. It reveals and individualism (Smith 1991; Smith 1997). how American nationals and foreigners are This mutual recognition is necessary for na- “made” at Castro through direct classroom in- tionals to believe they belong together as a struction, school events and programming, group, though they will never meet most of and daily interactions between peers, teachers, their compatriots (see also Anderson 1983). As and staff. the political theorist David Miller notes, “na- The findings illustrate how efforts to reduce tions are not aggregates of people distin - the ethnic distance between schools and their guished by their physical or cultural traits, but minority student populations may be explained communities whose very existence depends as a process of two- way assimilation, whereby upon mutual recognition” (1995, 23, emphasis both mainstream institutions and immigrant added). How nationals imagine the social communities undergo ethnic change and be- boundaries of the national community often come more alike (Alba and Nee 2003; Jiménez influences which people or groups receive the 2017). Through this process of assimilation, a full benefits and protections of the state and social context emerges in which a “true Amer- full rights of membership within the national ican” includes the cultural attributes of partic- polity (Anderson 1983). Yet the existing litera- ular ethnic minority groups, facilitating the ture on national identity has done little to ex- national identification of minority students plain how children learn the boundaries of the and their definition of American in multicul- nation in the first place or the social processes 2. In 2010 in Tucson, Arizona, protesters fought a ban on ethnic studies curriculum. Marches and rallies in Aus- tin, Texas, the same year similarly opposed the school board’s decision to change ethnic content in the U.S. history curriculum. In 2014 in Denver, Colorado, debates and protests ensued over the school board decision to limit topics in U.S. history that emphasized race, class, and ethnicity, which were argued to be un- American. rsf: the russell sage foundation journal of the social sciences maKing americans 101 that lead to eventual national identification, middle- class, and it was into this culture that including assimilation. immigrants were presumed to assimilate. No- Assimilation is, in fact, a process of ethnic tably, these theories share the assumption that change whereby “foreigners” become nationals the boundaries of the American mainstream even as the characteristics of a national may are normative and based on roughly the same change (Waldinger 2003, 2007). Moreover, the ethnocultural features, rather than socially image of the core national in large part directs constructed and contested (Anderson 1983). both the Americanization and assimilation pro- Only the immigrant community is presumed cesses for minority and immigrant groups. to undergo cultural change as it moves toward Classic theories of assimilation have treated a fixed point of Americanness. it as a process of cultural subtraction, whereby Sociologists have recently shifted on this the ethnic elements of the individual are point, suggesting a more dynamic construction stripped away and replaced with Anglo Euro- of the nation that is shaped by both immigrant pean cultural and linguistic norms (Gordon communities and the host society
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