Immigration and American diversity : a social and cultural history

Title:

Immigration and American diversity : a social and cultural history

Author:

Gabaccia, Donna R., 1949-

Publication Information:

Malden, MA : Blackwell Publishers, 2002.

Format:

Books

Series:

Problems in American history

Carrier Type:

ix, 306 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Subject Term:

Multiculturalism -- United States.

Geographic Term:

United States -- Emigration and immigration -- History.

United States -- Race relations -- History.

ISBN:

9780631220329

9780631220336

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This engaging textbook is a concise overview of a sweeping topic - American Immigration. Immigration is core to the history of America - a "Nation of Immigrants" who are diverse by definition. Beginning with the first arrival of migrants from Asia, Africa, and Europe, and ending with a discussion of the United States at the turn of the 21st century, this book offers an unflinching analysis of the complex relationship between America's national solidarity and ethnic diversity.

List of Figures and Tables

Preface and Acknowledgments

Introduction

Student Exercise: American Diversity - and Me

American Diversity - and You

1 Creating America

Creating Americans

2 Americans and Aliens, 1750-

1835.3 Emigrants and Regional Strife, 1820-1860.Student Exercise: Catholic Nuns Testify in Court after the Burning of the Charlestown Convent

4 Redefining the Nation, 1850-1900.Student Exercise: Can a Negro be a Nativist?

5 Immigrants in a Nativist America, 1890-1920.Student Exercise, Determining the Geographic Origins of Immigrants at Century's Turn

6 Migrants, Immigrants, and Scientific Racism, 1900-

1945.7 The Postwar USA: Nation of Immigrants or Multicultural Nation?.Student Exercise: Ethnicity, Authors, and their Books

8 Today's Immigrants

Tomorrow's Nation

Student Exercise: This Week's Headlines: An Oral Report on Immigration's Impact on Local Communities

Conclusion

Notes

Index

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