Some social scientists and politicians suggest that immigrant groups that fail to successfully assimilate do so because of their unwillingness to take on American norms and values. Omi and Winant title and critique this neoconservative view as…

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The "Bootstraps Model" suggests that immigrant groups are solely responsible for their own success or failure in assimilating to American culture, and that they must "pull themselves up by their bootstraps" without any support or assistance from society. Omi and Winant critique this view as ignoring the structural and institutional barriers that prevent marginalized groups from fully participating in American society.

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