America's banquet of cultures [[electronic resource] ] : harnessing ethnicity, race, and immigration in the twenty-first century / / Ronald Fernandez |
Autore | Fernandez Ronald |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Westport, Conn., : Praeger, 2000 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (279 p.) |
Disciplina | 305.8/00973 |
Soggetto topico |
Minorities - United States - Social conditions
Immigrants - United States - Social conditions |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 0-313-00248-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910454863103321 |
Fernandez Ronald | ||
Westport, Conn., : Praeger, 2000 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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America's banquet of cultures [[electronic resource] ] : harnessing ethnicity, race, and immigration in the twenty-first century / / Ronald Fernandez |
Autore | Fernandez Ronald |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Westport, Conn., : Praeger, 2000 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (279 p.) |
Disciplina | 305.8/00973 |
Soggetto topico |
Minorities - United States - Social conditions
Immigrants - United States - Social conditions |
ISBN | 0-313-00248-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910779845803321 |
Fernandez Ronald | ||
Westport, Conn., : Praeger, 2000 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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America's banquet of cultures : harnessing ethnicity, race, and immigration in the twenty-first century / / Ronald Fernandez |
Autore | Fernandez Ronald |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Westport, Conn. : , : Praeger, , 2000 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (279 p.) |
Disciplina | 305.8/00973 |
Soggetto topico |
Minorities - United States - Social conditions
Immigrants - United States - Social conditions |
ISBN |
979-84-00-60991-6
0-313-00248-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover -- AMERICA'S BANQUET OF CULTURES -- Contents -- Preface: Four All-Americans -- DIVERSITY INCARNATE1 -- A WHOOP, WHOOP INDIAN -- SUM OF THE PARTS -- ETHNIC DESPITE HIMSELF -- WHAT SHALL WE DO WITH OUR AMERICA?2 -- NOTES -- Acknowledgments -- PART ONE IMMIGRANTS, SERFS, AND REFUGEES: WHO ARE THEY? WHERE DID THEY COME FROM? -- 1 Old Blood, New Blood, Weak Blood: The Nature of U.S. Immigration Laws -- WHO'S RESPONSIBLE? -- CHICKENS COMING HOME TO ROOST -- National Origins Law of 1924 -- McCarran-Walter Act of 1952 -- Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 -- Doorway to the World -- Final Passage -- Results of the New Immigration Law -- Full Circle: Diversity Immigrants -- Full, Full Circle -- NOTES -- 2 Empires and Serfs: Migrant Labor in the United States -- GOLD AND SILVER PAYROLLS -- PLANES, PARACHUTES, AND PEOPLE -- NETWORKS -- The First Americans -- Serfdom in America -- Economic Slavery* -- THE MIDCENTURY WATERSHED -- Permanent Non-Permanent Residents -- Swat the Hyphen -- Postscript: The Puerto Ricans, Citizens by Statute -- NOTES -- 3 Refugees and Other Aliens -- UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES -- THE ACTION STORY -- CHAOS IN INDOCHINA -- Refugee Act of 1980 -- 129,000 Entrants -- The Central American Exodus -- The Lautenberg Amendment -- Same Thing, Only Different -- Good Questions, No Answers -- NOTES -- PART TWO WHAT SHALL WE DO WITH OUR AMERICA? -- 4 How Is Society Possible? -- RELEVANT ASSUMPTIONS2 -- HOW IS SOCIETY POSSIBLE?9 -- Cultural Clout -- Senses of Self29 -- NOTES -- 5 Changing Colors -- QUESTIONING THE UNQUESTIONABLE -- THE CONCEPT OF RACE -- WE NEED TO MAKE WHITE SEEM STRANGE30 -- INVITATION TO A BANQUET -- AFRICAN AMERICANS: A UNIQUE ETHNICITY -- NOTES -- 6 Ethnic Extremes -- TWENTY-TWO CARAT GOLD -- MARK MCGWIRE AND ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE -- PREACHERS PRESENT ARMS19 -- ETHNIC OPTIONS32 -- MAKING IT IN AMERICA73.
ROOM TO MANEUVER -- NOTES -- 7 Social Class and Social flict -- RURAL AMERICA -- TRUST AND THE WEALTH OF A NATION -- NATURE AND LOGIC OF CAPITALISM18 -- PUNCTUATED EQUILIBRIUM -- ETHNIC NICHES, AFRICAN AMERICANS, AND CHICANOS -- THE COLORS OF CHANGE -- NOTES -- PART THREE WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE? -- 8 Compare and Contrast: Great Britain, Israel, India, and the United States -- ANCESTRAL ROOTS -- ROYAL HYPOCRITES -- RECONSIDERED ROOTS -- ISRAEL AND THE LAW OF RETURN -- A New Nation -- OPERATION MOSES -- SEVEN HUNDRED THOUSAND RUSSIANS -- THE UNITED STATES AND ISRAEL -- DEBATES OF A DEVELOPED NATION -- NOTES -- 9 The Twenty-first Century -- LEZA -- OUR INHERITANCE -- POLICY ISSUES -- Role of the Federal Government -- Affirmative Action -- Undocumented Migrants -- CREATIVE CROSSROADS OF THE WORLD -- NOTES -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910818692103321 |
Fernandez Ronald | ||
Westport, Conn. : , : Praeger, , 2000 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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A changing nation : population projections under alternative immigration scenarios / / by Sandra Johnson |
Autore | Johnson Sandra (Demographer) |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | [Washington, D.C.] : , : U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Census Bureau, , 2020 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (21 pages) : color illustrations |
Collana | Current population reports. P25, Population estimates and projections |
Soggetto topico |
Population forecasting - United States
Population aging - United States Demographic transition - United States - Forecasting Emigration and immigration - Forecasting Population aging Population forecasting |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Altri titoli varianti | Changing nation |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910713359303321 |
Johnson Sandra (Demographer) | ||
[Washington, D.C.] : , : U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Census Bureau, , 2020 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Comprehensive immigration reform : government perspectives on immigration statistics : hearing before the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Tenth Congress, first session, June 6, 2007 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (iv, 239 p.) : ill |
Soggetto topico |
Illegal immigration - United States
Immigrants - United States |
Soggetto non controllato |
Illegal aliens
Immigrants Social security United States Social science Political science |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Altri titoli varianti | Comprehensive Immigration Reform |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910694335203321 |
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Comprehensive immigration reform : government perspectives on immigration statistics (continued) : hearing before the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Tenth Congress, first session, June 19, 2007 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (iii, 51 p.) : ill |
Soggetto topico |
Illegal immigration - United States
Immigrants - United States Social security - United States |
Soggetto non controllato |
Illegal aliens
Immigrants Social security United States Social science Political science |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Altri titoli varianti | Comprehensive Immigration Reform |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910694335103321 |
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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