1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910704274603321

Titolo

Challenge to Europe : the growing refugee crisis : hearing before Subcommittee on Europe, Eurasia, and Emerging Threats of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fourteenth Congress, first session, November 4, 2015

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington : , : U.S. Government Publishing Office, , 2015

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (iii, 37 pages)

Soggetti

Refugees - Government policy - European Union countries

Refugees - Government policy - United States

Refugees

Refugees - Government policy

Legislative hearings.

History

Syria History Civil War, 2011- Refugees

Europe European Union countries

Syria

United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Paper version available for sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Publishing Office.

"Serial No. 114-119."

Title from title screen (viewed Jan.13, 2016).



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910784083703321

Autore

Brown Linda Joyce <1967-, >

Titolo

The literature of immigration and racial formation : becoming white, becoming other, becoming American in the late Progressive Era / / Linda Joyce Brown

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; ; London : , : Routledge, , 2004

ISBN

1-135-93241-7

1-135-93242-5

1-280-17845-0

0-203-32772-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (159 p.)

Collana

Studies in American popular history and culture

Disciplina

810.9/3522/09041

Soggetti

American literature - 20th century - History and criticism

Emigration and immigration in literature

Women and literature - United States - History - 20th century

American literature - Women authors - History and criticism

Immigrants' writings, American - History and criticism

Difference (Psychology) in literature

Passing (Identity) in literature

Immigrants in literature

Ethnicity in literature

White people in literature

Race in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 123-129) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; Chapter One Introduction: Race, Whiteness, and Women Immigrants; Chapter Two Coming Into Whiteness: Mary Antin's Claim to Assimilation; Chapter Three ""Why Couldn't We have Been Either One Thing or the Other?"" Monolithic Identity and Ethnic Construction in the Fiction and Autobiography of Sui Sin Far; Chapter Four ""This Hideous Little Pickaninny"" and the Formation of Bohemian Whiteness: Race, Cultural Pluralism, and Willa Cather's My Antonia;



Epilogue; Notes; Works Cited; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This work examines early twentieth-century literature about women immigrants in order to reveal the differing ways that American racial categories and identities, particularly that of whiteness, were textually and socially constructed at the beginning of the twentieth century.