Assimilation in American Life

Milton Myron Gordon (1918-2019) was an American sociologist renowned for his theory of the Seven Stages of Assimilation and his seminal work Assimilation in American Life: The Role of Race, Religion, and National Origins (1964), which earned the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in Race Relations. Born in Gardiner, Maine, to Jewish immigrant parents, he earned degrees from Bowdoin College and Columbia University, taught at institutions including the University of Massachusetts Amherst where he became Professor Emeritus, and received awards such as the Guggenheim Fellowship and the Distinguished Career Award from the American Sociological Association's International Migration Section.com