Introducing the cultural mashup dictionary: Our first term, 1.5 generation
Introducing the cultural mashup dictionary: Our first term, 1.5 generation
- April 6, 2011
- Ruben Rumbaut, sociology professor, is featured on 89.3 KPCC Southern California Public Radio April 6, 2011
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From KPCC:
UC Irvine sociologist Rubén Rumbaut, a Cuban American who himself arrived in the United
States as a child, wrote in 2004 that he first came cross the term "half-second" generation
decades ago in an early twentieth-century volume on Polish immigrants, where it was
used to describe foreign-born youths who came of age in the U.S. "It made an impression
on me," Rumbaut told me by phone. "I came to this country on the eve of my twelfth
birthday." Starting in 1969 and through the 1970s, he used the term "one-and-a-half
generation" to describe similar youths in Cuban immigrant families. In the 1980s,
while writing about Southeast Asian youths, he switched to the decimal version, "1.5
generation."
For more, please visit http://multiamerican.scpr.org/2011/04/introducing-the-cultural-mashup-di....
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