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| List of Tables and Illustrations | |
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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Twelve Stories | |
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| Miami Stories | |
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| Maria de los Angeles and Yvette Santana: August 1993 | |
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| Melanie Fernandez-Rey: September 1993 | |
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| Aristide Maillol: August 1993 | |
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| Armando and Luis Hernandez: July 1995 | |
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| Mary Patterson: February 1995 | |
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| Efren Montejo: May 1994 | |
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| San Diego Stories | |
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| Jorge, Olga, Miguel Angel, and Estela Cardozo: January 1994 | |
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| Quy Nguyen: December 1987 | |
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| Bennie and Jennifer Montoya: October 1995 | |
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| Sophy Keng: November 1987-June 1988 | |
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| Yolanda and Carlos Munoz: March 1994 | |
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| Boua Cha: 1988-1990 | |
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| The New Americans: An Overview | |
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| Immigration Yesterday and Today | |
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| The Size and Concentration of the Second Generation | |
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| Studying the New Second Generation: The Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Study | |
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| The New Second Generation at a Glance | |
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| Census Results | |
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| CILS Results | |
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| Not Everyone Is Chosen: Segmented Assimilation and Its Determinants | |
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| How Immigrants Are Received: Modes of Incorporation and Their Consequences | |
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| Acculturation and Role Reversal | |
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| Where They Grow Up: Challenges to Second-Generation Adaptation | |
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| Race | |
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| Labor Markets | |
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| Countercultures | |
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| Confronting the Challenge: Immigrant Social Capital | |
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| Parental Status, Family Structure, and Gender | |
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| The Immigrant Community | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Making It in America | |
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| Early Adaptation and Achievement | |
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| General Trends | |
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| Nationality and Achievement | |
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| Determinants of Parental Economic Achievement: Additive Effects | |
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| Determinants of Parental Economic Achievement: Interaction Effects | |
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| Nationality and Family Composition | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| In Their Own Eyes: Immigrant Outlooks on America | |
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| Aura Lila Marin, Cuban, 53, Single Mother (1994) | |
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| Pao Yang, Laotian Hmong, 57, Father (1995) | |
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| Optimism | |
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| Permissiveness | |
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| Ambition | |
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| Community and Pride | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Lost in Translation: Language and the New Second Generation | |
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| Bilingualism: Yesterday and Today | |
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| Shadow Boxing: Myth and Reality of Language Acculturation | |
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| General Trends | |
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| National Differences | |
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| Forced-March Acculturation | |
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| What Makes a Bilingual? | |
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| A Game of Mirrors: Language Instruction and Types of Acculturation | |
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| Defining the Situation: The Ethnic Identities of Children of Immigrants | |
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| Sites of Belonging: The Complex Allegiances of Children of Immigrants | |
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| Developing a Self | |
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| Past Research | |
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| Who Am I? Patterns of Ethnic Self-Identification | |
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| Ethnic Identity Shifts | |
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| Stability and Salience | |
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| Ethnic Self-Identities by National Origin | |
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| Where Do I Come From? Nation, Family, and Identity | |
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| Correlates of Self-Identities | |
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| Family Status, Composition, and Language | |
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| The Influence of Parental Self-Identities | |
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| Region, Schools, and Discrimination | |
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| The Race Question | |
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| Determinants of Ethnic and Racial Identities | |
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| Conclusion: From Translation Artists to Living Paradoxes | |
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| The Crucible Within: Family, Schools, and the Psychology of the Second Generation | |
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| San Diego Families | |
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| Family Cohesion, Conflict, and Change | |
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| School Environments and Peer Groups | |
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| Psychological Well-Being: Self-Esteem and Depressive Affect | |
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| School Engagement and Effort | |
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| Educational Expectations | |
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| Determinants of Psychosocial Outcomes | |
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| Self-Esteem and Depression | |
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| Ambition | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| School Achievement and Failure | |
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| Early Educational Achievement | |
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| Preliminary Results | |
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| Determinants of Early Achievement | |
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| Educational Achievement in Late Adolescence | |
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| Grades in Senior High School | |
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| Change over Time | |
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| Dropping Out of School | |
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| Two Achievement Paradoxes | |
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| Southeast Asians | |
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| Cuban Americans | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Conclusion: Mainstream Ideologies and the Long-Term Prospects of Immigrant Communities | |
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| Two Mainstream Ideologies | |
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| A Third Way: Selective Acculturation and Bilingualism | |
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| The Mexican Case | |
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| Theoretical Reprise | |
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| Time and Acculturation | |
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| Reactive Ethnicity and Its Aftermath | |
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| Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Study: Follow-up Questionnaire | |
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| Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Study: Parental Questionnaire | |
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| Variables Used in Multivariate Analyses: Chapters 6 to 9 | |
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| Notes | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |