Immigration and American Diversity A Social and Cultural History

by Gabaccia, Donna R.

• ISBN13: 9780631220336
• ISBN10: 063122033X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-03-12
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Donna R. Gabaccia is Charles H. Stone Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She is the author of We Are What We Eat: Ethnic Food and the Making of Americans (1998) and Italy's Many Diasporas (2000).

Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables	vii
Preface and Acknowledgments	viii
Introduction	1	(11)
Student Exercise: American Diversity - and Me; American Diversity - and You	12	(6)
Creating America; Creating Americans	18	(29)
Americans and Aliens, 1750-1835	47	(26)
Emigrants and Regional Strife, 1820-1860	73	(33)
Student Exercise: Catholic Nuns Testify in Court After the Burning of the Charlestown Convent	101	(5)
Redefining the Nation, 1850-1900	106	(30)
Student Exercise: Can A Negro Be A Nativist?	134	(2)
Immigrants in a Nativist America, 1890-1920	136	(32)
Student Exercise: Determining the Geographic Origins of Immigrants at Century's Turn	165	(3)
Migrants, Immigrants, and Scientific Racism, 1900-1945	168	(32)
The Postwar USA: Nation of Immigrants or Multicultural Nation?	200	(33)
Student Exercise: Ethnicity Authors, and Their Books	231	(2)
Today's Immigrants; Tomorrow's Nation	233	(32)
Student Exercise: This Week's Headlines: An Oral Report on Immigration's Impact on local Communities	263	(2)
Conclusion	265	(11)
Notes	276	(10)
Index	286