Culture’s role in assimilation and integration: the expansion and growing diversity of U.S. popular culture

Popular culture is an underappreciated site for studying assimilation/integration, though it can play a vital role in redefining the moral worthiness of marginalised groups. In U.S., this highlighted by opening popular to ethnic Catholics and Jews decades following World War II, when these groups entered societal mainstream en masse. Similar changes American are becoming evident today non-white They traced here film television industries using data assembled systematically during last decade Darnell Hunt Ana-Christina Ramón. The cultural align with evidence socioeconomic mobility social integration substantial portions post-1965 immigrant U.S. A key question remains extent which African Americans benefitting. Yet, taken as whole, described underscores ‘realism’ assimilation perspectives, describe processes that manifestly changing likely do so elsewhere.