{
  "id": 28612,
  "title": "Richard D. Alba 1942–2025: Distinguished scholar of ethnicity and immigrant assimilation and cherished mentor and friend",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/07/22/richard-d-alba-1942-2025-distinguished-scholar-of-ethnicity-and",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-07-22T07:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "PNAS",
    "slug": "pnas",
    "url": "https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2622612123?af=R"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 30, July 2026. Richard D. Alba, a path-breaking sociologist who studied immigrant assimilation and its impact on mainstream cultures, in the United States and in Western Europe, passed away on June 4, 2025, at the age of 82. His early work rigorously chronicled the ...",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}