American Immigration and Ethnicity

A Reader
2009
ISBN: 978-0-312-29350-5
Verlag: Springer Nature B.V.

Buch, Englisch, 345 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 232 mm, Gewicht: 517 g

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gerber, D.

Kraut, A.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Comparative Perspectives: Similarities and Differences in American Immigration History Resettlement: Making a New Life Homeland Ties and Transnational Activities Nativism: Fear of the Foreigner Work Family, Domestic Economy, and the Lives of Women Race: Becoming White Race: Becoming Black Identities and Ethnicities: The Formation of Groups Traditions and Invented Traditions Language Conflicts Melting Pots and Popular Culture

Über Autor(innen)

ALAN M. KRAUT is Professor of History at American University, USA.

DAVID GERBER is Professor of History at the State University of New York, Buffalo, USA.