American Immigration and Ethnicity : a Reader.

American Immigration and Ethnicity : a Reader.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gerber, D.
Other Authors: Kraut, A.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan US, 2016.
Subjects:
Immigrants > United States > History.
Minorities > United States > History.
Emigration and immigration
Emigration and immigration > Social aspects
Ethnic relations
Immigrants
Minorities
Race relations
United States > Emigration and immigration > Social aspects.
United States > Emigration and immigration > History.
United States > Ethnic relations > History.
United States > Race relations > History.
United States
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface and Introduction; One A Comparison of Contemporary Immigration and the New Immigration of the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries; Introduction; Pyong Gap Min, "A Comparison of Post-1965 and Turn-of-the-Century Immigrants in Intergenerational Mobility and Cultural Transmission"; Two Making a New Home in a New Land-Resettling in the United States; Introduction; Virginia Yans-McLaughlin, "New Wine In Old Bottles: Family, Community, and Immigration"; Mary Antin, The Promised Land.
  • Barry Newman, "For Asians in the U.S., Mini-Chinatowns Sprout in Suburbia"Three Transnational Ties:The Immigrants' Continuing Relationships with Their Homelands; Introduction; Johanna Lessinger, "Investing or Going Home? A Transnational Strategy among Indian Immigrants in the United States"; Lawrence J. McCaffrey, The Irish Diaspora in America; Silvio Torres-Saillant, "Nothing to Celebrate"; Four Ethnicity and Ethnic Identification; Introduction; Kathleen Neils Conzen, David A. Gerber, Ewa Morawska, George E. Pozzetta, Rudolph J. Vecoli, "The Invention of Ethnicity:A Perspective from the USA."
  • Claire S. Chow, "Ethnicity and Identity:What It Means to Be Asian American" Five Generations; Introduction; Victor Greene, "Old-time Folk Dancing and Music among the Second Generation, 1920-50"; Jane Addams, Twenty Years at Hull-House; Stephen Henderson, "Rakhi Dhanoa and Ranjeet Purewal"; Six Nativism, an American Perennial; Introduction; George J. Sánchez, "Face the Nation: Race, Immigration, and the Rise of Nativism in Late-Twentieth-Century-America"; Edward Alworth Ross, "American Blood and Immigrant Blood"; Peter Brimelow, "Time to Rethink Immigration?"
  • Seven Becoming White: Irish Immigrants in the Nineteenth CenturyIntroduction; David R. Roediger, "Irish-American Workers and White Racial Formation in the Antebellum United States"; Niles National Register-August 6, 1842-State of the Union, "Riot in Philadelphia: Conflicts between Whites and Blacks"; Frederick Douglass, "Colored Americans, and Aliens-T.F. Meagher"; Stephan A. Douglas (Speech at Jonesboro, Illinois); Eight Becoming Black: Contemporary Jamaicans and West Indians in the 1990s; Introduction.
  • Adam Nossiter, "A Jamaican Way Station in the Bronx: Community of Striving Immigrants Fosters Middle-Class Values"Milton Vickerman, Crosscurrents:West Indian Immigrants and Race; Virginia Turner, "Jamaicans Outraged: New York Police Targeting West Indians"; Nine What the Immigrants Make, America Takes: Work in Immigrant Communities; Introduction; Mark Wyman, "Immigrants in an Industrializing Economy"; Louise C. Odencrantz, Italian Women in Industry:A Study of Conditions in New York City; Laura Parker, "USA Just Wouldn't Work Without Immigrant Labor.

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