Art in the Lives of Immigrant Communities in the United States

PAUL DiMAGGIO is the A. Barton Hepburn Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs, research director of the Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies, and director of the Center for the Study of Social Organization at Princeton University. He is the editor of Nonprofit Enterprise in the Arts: Studies in Mission and Constraint. PATRICIA FERN-NDEZ-KELLY holds a joint position with the sociology department and the Office of Population Research at Princeton University. Her book, For We Are Sold, I and My People: Women and Industry in Mexico's Frontier, was featured by Contemporary Sociology as one of the twenty-five favorite books of the late twentieth century.

"Art in the Lives of Immigrant Communities in the United States provides a great deal of information about the way recent arrivals use art to adapt to the United States, to recognize themselves and share outlooks with others. The book exemplifies a compelling and innovative approach that has considerable potential to improve the study of immigration and of cultural production. Accessible and wellwritten."(Contemporary Sociology)