American Immigration and Ethnicity : A Reader / / edited by D. Gerber, A. Kraut

• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2005
• Edizione: 1st ed. 2005.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (356 p.)
• Disciplina: 900
• Soggetto topico: United States - History; History, Modern; Europe - Politics and government; World politics; America - History; Emigration and immigration; US History; Modern History; European Politics; Political History; History of the Americas; Human Migration
• Persona (resp. second.): GerberD; KrautA
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 ; Demand will Continue to Grow for High- and Low-skilled"
• Sommario/riassunto: This work aims to enrich studies of American immigration history by combining and comparing the experiences of both European immigration, in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and Asian, Hispanic, Caribbean, and African immigrations in the late twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
• Titolo autorizzato: American Immigration and Ethnicity
• ISBN: 1-137-08615-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910827648103321
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