Immigration and American Diversity: A Social and Cultural History
A Social and Cultural History
Samenvatting
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.
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<p>Preface and Acknowledgments.</p>
<p>Introduction.</p>
<p>Student Exercise: American Diversity and Me; American Diversity and You.</p>
<p>1. Creating America; Creating Americans.</p>
<p>2. Americans and Aliens, 1750 1835.</p>
<p>3. Emigrants and Regional Strife, 1820 1860.</p>
<p>Student Exercise: Catholic Nuns Testify in Court after the Burning of the Charlestown Convent.</p>
<p>4. Redefining the Nation, 1850 1900.</p>
<p>Student Exercise: Can a Negro be a Nativist?.</p>
<p>5. Immigrants in a Nativist America, 1890–1920.</p>
<p>Student Exercise, Determining the Geographic Origins of Immigrants at Century′s Turn.</p>
<p>6. Migrants, Immigrants, and Scientific Racism, 1900–1945.</p>
<p>7. The Postwar USA: Nation of Immigrants or Multicultural Nation?.</p>
<p>Student Exercise: Ethnicity, Authors, and their Books.</p>
<p>8. Today′s Immigrants; Tomorrow′s Nation.</p>
<p>Student Exercise: This Week′s Headlines: An Oral Report on Immigration′s Impact on Local Communities.</p>
<p>Conclusion.</p>
<p>Notes.</p>
<p>Index.</p>

