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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777605503321

Autore

Reimers David M

Titolo

Other immigrants [[electronic resource] ] : the global origins of the American people / / David M. Reimers

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : New York University Press, c2005

ISBN

0-8147-6906-3

1-4294-1478-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (399 p.)

Disciplina

305.8/00973

Soggetti

Ethnology - United States - History

Minorities - United States - History

Immigrants - United States - History

United States Ethnic relations

United States Emigration and immigration History

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. 361-366) and index.

Nota di contenuto

The beginnings, 1550-1900 -- Asians in Hawaii and the United States -- North to America, 1900-1940 -- El Norte: Mexicans, 1940-present -- Central and South Americans -- Across the Pacific again, East Asian immigrants -- Across the Pacific again, South Asian immigrants -- Middle Easterners -- The new Black immigrants -- Refugees: Cubans and Asians.

Sommario/riassunto

Blacks, Hispanics, and Asians represent three of every four immigrants who arrived in the United States after 1970. Yet despite their large numbers and long history of movement to America, non-Europeans are conspicuously absent from many books about immigration. In Other Immigrants , David M. Reimers offers the first comprehensive account of non-European immigration, chronicling the compelling and diverse stories of frequently overlooked Americans. Reimers traces the early history of Black, Hispanic, and Asian immigrants from the fifteenth century through World War II, when racial hostility le