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“Regardless of where they come from, immigrants learn that, in America, lighter is always better, darker is always worse and black is worst. Little time passes before immigrants become prejudiced against African-Americans. This, too, is a kind of assimilation, and one that Israel Zangwill’s idealistic vision never anticipated.”

Tamar Jacoby, Reinventing the Melting Pot: The New Immigrants and What It Means To Be American
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