American Immigration and Ethnicity

A Reader

D. Gerber, A. Kraut, D. Gerber, A. Kraut

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2016
• ISBN:
  9781137086150
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: North American History
• Index: History

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.

Table of contents

• 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
• Two Making a New Home in a New Land—Resettling in the United States
• Three Transnational Ties:The Immigrants’ Continuing Relationships with Their Homelands
• Four Ethnicity and Ethnic Identification
• Five Generations
• Six Nativism, an American Perennial
• Seven Becoming White: Irish Immigrants in the Nineteenth Century
• Eight Becoming Black: Contemporary Jamaicans and West Indians in the 1990s
• Nine What the Immigrants Make,America Takes: Work in Immigrant Communities
• Ten Family, Domestic Economy, and Women’s and Men’s Lives
• Eleven Language: Social and Political Perspectives
• Twelve The Physical Health and Mental Well-Being of Immigrants
• Thirteen Traditions and Invented Traditions
• Fourteen Ethnicity and American Popular Culture
• Index