Immigration and American Diversity A Social

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.

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).

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

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Immigration and American Diversity A Social and Cultural History

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