The Oxford handbook of American immigration and ethnicity

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The Oxford handbook of American immigration and ethnicity

edited by Ronald H. Bayor

Oxford University Press, c2016

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Scholarship on immigration to America is a coin with two sides: how did America change immigrants, and how did they change America? Were the immigrants uprooted from their ancestral homes, leaving all behind, or were they transplanted, bringing many aspects of their culture with them? Although historians agree with the transplantation concept, the notion of the melting pot, which suggests a complete loss of the immigrant culture, persists in the public mind. The Oxford Handbook of American Immigration and Ethnicity explores how Americans think of themselves and how science, religion, period of migration, gender, education, politics, and occupational mobility shape both this image and American life. Since the 1965 Immigration Act opened the gates to newer groups, historical writing on immigration and ethnicity has evolved over the years to include numerous immigrant sources and to provide trenchant analyses of American immigration and ethnicity. For the first time, this handbook brings together thirty leading scholars in the field to make sense of all the themes, methodologies, and trends that characterize the debate on American immigration. They examine a wide-range of topics, including pan-ethnicity, whiteness, intermarriage, bilingualism, religion, museum ethnic displays, naturalization, regional mobility, census categorization, immigration legislation and its reception, ethnicity-related crime and gang formation. The Oxford Handbook of American Immigration and Ethnicity explores the idea of assimilation in a multicultural society showing how deeply pan-ethnicity changed American identity over the time.

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Contents List of Contributors Introduction: The Making of America Ronald H. Bayor Chapter 1. The Impact of Immigration Legislation: 1875 to the Present David M. Reimers Chapter 2. European Migrations Dirk Hoerder Chapter 3. Asian Immigration Madeline Y. Hsu Chapter 4. Latino Immigration Maria Cristina Garcia Chapter 5. African American Migration from the Colonial Era to the Present Joe W. Trotter Chapter 6. Emancipation and Exploitation in Immigrant Women's Lives Donna R. Gabaccia Chapter 7. Protecting America's Borders and the Undocumented Immigrant Dilemma David G. Gutierrez Chapter 8. Acceptance, Rejection,and America's Split Personality Gary Gerstle Chapter 9. Race and Citizenship Gregory T. Carter Chapter 10. Concepts of Ethnic/Racial Identity and Assimilation in the United States Richard Alba Chapter 11. Whiteness and Race David R. Roediger Chapter 12. Race and U.S. Panethnic Formation Yen Le Espiritu Chapter 13. Intermarriage and the Creation of a New American Allison Varzally Chapter 14. Immigration, Medical Regulation, and Eugenics Wendy Kline Chapter 15. The World of the Immigrant Worker James R. Barrett Chapter 16. Neighborhoods, Immigrants, and Ethnic Americans Amanda I. Seligman Chapter 17. Machine Bosses, Reformers, and the Politics of Ethnic Minority Incorporation Steven P. Erie and Vladimir Kogan Chapter 18. Immigration, Ethnicity, Race and Organized Crime Will Cooley Chapter 19. The Myth of Ethnic Success: Old Wine in New Bottles Stephen Steinberg Chapter 20. Immigration and Ethnic Diversity in the South, 1980-2010 Mary E. Odem Chapter 21. Allegiance, Dual Citizenship, and the Ethnic Influence on U.S. Foreign Policy David Brundage Chapter 22. Historians and Sociologists Debate Transnationalism Peter Kivisto Chapter 23. Written Forms of Communication from Immigrant Letters to Instant Messaging Suzanne M. Sinke Chapter 24. Ethnicity, Race, and Religion beyond Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish Whites R. Stephen Warner Chapter 25. Immigration, Race, and Ethnicity in American Film Steven Alan Carr Chapter 26. Language Retention/Language Shift, "English Only," and Multilingualism in teh Unites States Joshua A. Fishman Chapter 27. Melting Pots, Salad Bowls, Ethnic Museums, and American Identity Steven Conn Chapter 28. New Approaches in the Teaching of Immigration and Ethnic History in the United States John J. Bukowczyk Index

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