M. Apple’s Reviews > Working Toward Whiteness: How America's Immigrants Became White: The Strange Journey from Ellis Island to the Suburbs > Status Update

Not difficult to read but incredibly dense. A wave of endless citation.

Too dense. A typical sociological text in need of an editor.

“…the idea that a language change could announce a racial transformation spoke profoundly to the biosocial definitions of race.”

This is one for Japanese students resisting language learning — learning another language too well will lead them to no longer being considered Japanese.