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Not "A Nation of Immigrants"

Author : Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 0807036293
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Not "A Nation of Immigrants" written by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2021-08-24 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Debunks the pervasive and self-congratulatory myth that our country is proudly founded by and for immigrants, and urges readers to embrace a more complex and honest history of the United States Whether in political debates or discussions about immigration around the kitchen table, many Americans, regardless of party affiliation, will say proudly that we are a nation of immigrants. In this bold new book, historian Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz asserts this ideology is harmful and dishonest because it serves to mask and diminish the US’s history of settler colonialism, genocide, white supremacy, slavery, and structural inequality, all of which we still grapple with today. She explains that the idea that we are living in a land of opportunity—founded and built by immigrants—was a convenient response by the ruling class and its brain trust to the 1960s demands for decolonialization, justice, reparations, and social equality. Moreover, Dunbar-Ortiz charges that this feel good—but inaccurate—story promotes a benign narrative of progress, obscuring that the country was founded in violence as a settler state, and imperialist since its inception. While some of us are immigrants or descendants of immigrants, others are descendants of white settlers who arrived as colonizers to displace those who were here since time immemorial, and still others are descendants of those who were kidnapped and forced here against their will. This paradigm shifting new book from the highly acclaimed author of An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States charges that we need to stop believing and perpetuating this simplistic and a historical idea and embrace the real (and often horrific) history of the United States.

A Nation of Immigrants Reconsidered

Author : Maddalena Marinari
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252050959
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book A Nation of Immigrants Reconsidered written by Maddalena Marinari and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2018-12-30 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars, journalists, and policymakers have long argued that the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act dramatically reshaped the demographic composition of the United States. In A Nation of Immigrants Reconsidered, leading scholars of immigration explore how the political and ideological struggles of the "age of restriction"--from 1924 to 1965--paved the way for the changes to come. The essays examine how geopolitics, civil rights, perceptions of America's role as a humanitarian sanctuary, and economic priorities led government officials to facilitate the entrance of specific immigrant groups, thereby establishing the legal precedents for future policies. Eye-opening articles discuss Japanese war brides and changing views of miscegenation, the recruitment of former Nazi scientists, a temporary workers program with Japanese immigrants, the emotional separation of Mexican immigrant families, Puerto Rican youth’s efforts to claim an American identity, and the restaurant raids of conscripted Chinese sailors during World War II. Contributors: Eiichiro Azuma, David Cook-Martín, David FitzGerald, Monique Laney, Heather Lee, Kathleen López, Laura Madokoro, Ronald L. Mize, Arissa H. Oh, Ana Elizabeth Rosas, Lorrin Thomas, Ruth Ellen Wasem, and Elliott Young

A Nation of Immigrants

Author : Susan F. Martin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110890145X
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book A Nation of Immigrants written by Susan F. Martin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-03-25 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Immigration makes America what it is and is formative for what it will become. America was settled by three different models of immigration, all of which persist to the present. The Virginia Colony largely equated immigration with the arrival of laborers, who had few rights. Massachusetts welcomed those who shared the religious views of the founders but excluded those whose beliefs challenged prevailing orthodoxy. Pennsylvania valued pluralism, becoming the most diverse colony in religion, language, and culture. A fourth, anti-immigration model also emerged during the colonial period, and was often fueled by populist leaders who stoked fears about newcomers. Arguing that the Pennsylvania model has best served the country, this book makes key recommendations for future immigration reform. Given the highly controversial nature of immigration in the United States, this second edition – updated to analyze policy changes in the Obama and Trump administrations – provides valuable insights for academics and policymakers.

A Nation of Immigrants

Author : Susan F. Martin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521517997
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (179 download)

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Download or read book A Nation of Immigrants written by Susan F. Martin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-11-08 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Immigration makes America what it is and is formative for what it will become. America was settled by three different models of immigration, all of which persist to the present. The Virginia Colony largely equated immigration with the arrival of laborers, who had few rights. Massachusetts welcomed those who shared the religious views of the founders but excluded those whose beliefs challenged the prevailing orthodoxy. Pennsylvania valued pluralism, becoming the most diverse colony in religion, language, and culture. This book traces the evolution of these three competing models of immigration as they explain the historical roots of current policy debates and options. Arguing that the Pennsylvania model has best served the country, the final chapter makes recommendations for future immigration reform. Given the highly controversial nature of immigration in the United States, this book provides thoughtful, well-reasoned analysis, valuable to both academic and policy audiences for the ways it places today's trends and policy options into historical perspective.

A Nation of Immigrants

Author : Franca Iacovetta
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802074829
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (748 download)

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Download or read book A Nation of Immigrants written by Franca Iacovetta and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays examines immigrants and racial-ethnic relations in Canada from the mid-nineteenth century to the post-1945 era.

Still a Nation of Immigrants

Author : Brent K. Ashabranner
Publisher : Dutton Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Still a Nation of Immigrants written by Brent K. Ashabranner and published by Dutton Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 1993 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at the present influx of immigrants & discusses why they come & what they bring with them.

Crossing Borders

Author : Ali Noorani
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538143518
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Crossing Borders written by Ali Noorani and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-03-28 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advance praise from public figures José Andrés, Al Franken, Jonathan Blitzer of The New Yorker, and Russell Moore of Christianity Today. Find the moving stories of American immigrants and their journeys in Ali Noorani’s chronicle. In an era when immigration on a global scale defines the fears and aspirations of Americans, Crossing Borders presents the complexities of migration through the stories of families fleeing violence and poverty, the government and nongovernmental organizations helping or hindering their progress, and the American communities receiving them. Ali Noorani, who has spent years building bridges between immigrants and their often conservative communities, takes readers on a journey to Honduras, Ciudad Juarez in Mexico, and Texas, meeting migrants and the organizations and people that help them on both sides of the border. He reports from the inside on why families make the heart-wrenching decision to leave home. Going beyond the polemical, partisan debate, Noorani offers sensitive insights and real solutions. Crossing Borders will appeal to a broad audience of concerned citizens across the political spectrum, faith communities, policymakers, and immigrants themselves.

A Forgetful Nation

Author : Ali Behdad
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822387034
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book A Forgetful Nation written by Ali Behdad and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2005-07-18 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In A Forgetful Nation, the renowned postcolonialism scholar Ali Behdad turns his attention to the United States. Offering a timely critique of immigration and nationalism, Behdad takes on an idea central to American national mythology: that the United States is “a nation of immigrants,” welcoming and generous to foreigners. He argues that Americans’ treatment of immigrants and foreigners has long fluctuated between hospitality and hostility, and that this deep-seated ambivalence is fundamental to the construction of national identity. Building on the insights of Freud, Nietzsche, Foucault, and Derrida, he develops a theory of the historical amnesia that enables the United States to disavow a past and present built on the exclusion of others. Behdad shows how political, cultural, and legal texts have articulated American anxiety about immigration from the Federalist period to the present day. He reads texts both well-known—J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur’s Letters from an American Farmer, Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America, and Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass—and lesser-known—such as the writings of nineteenth-century nativists and of public health officials at Ellis Island. In the process, he highlights what is obscured by narratives and texts celebrating the United States as an open-armed haven for everyone: the country’s violent beginnings, including its conquest of Native Americans, brutal exploitation of enslaved Africans, and colonialist annexation of French and Mexican territories; a recurring and fierce strand of nativism; the need for a docile labor force; and the harsh discipline meted out to immigrant “aliens” today, particularly along the Mexican border.

At America's Gates

Author : Erika Lee
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807863130
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book At America's Gates written by Erika Lee and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2004-01-21 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, Chinese laborers became the first group in American history to be excluded from the United States on the basis of their race and class. This landmark law changed the course of U.S. immigration history, but we know little about its consequences for the Chinese in America or for the United States as a nation of immigrants. At America's Gates is the first book devoted entirely to both Chinese immigrants and the American immigration officials who sought to keep them out. Erika Lee explores how Chinese exclusion laws not only transformed Chinese American lives, immigration patterns, identities, and families but also recast the United States into a "gatekeeping nation." Immigrant identification, border enforcement, surveillance, and deportation policies were extended far beyond any controls that had existed in the United States before. Drawing on a rich trove of historical sources--including recently released immigration records, oral histories, interviews, and letters--Lee brings alive the forgotten journeys, secrets, hardships, and triumphs of Chinese immigrants. Her timely book exposes the legacy of Chinese exclusion in current American immigration control and race relations.

A Companion to American Immigration

Author : Reed Ueda
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1444391658
Total Pages : 931 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (443 download)

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Download or read book A Companion to American Immigration written by Reed Ueda and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-03-21 with total page 931 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to American Immigration is an authoritative collection of original essays by leading scholars on the major topics and themes underlying American immigration history. Focuses on the two most important periods in American Immigration history: the Industrial Revolution (1820-1930) and the Globalizing Era (Cold War to the present) Provides an in-depth treatment of central themes, including economic circumstances, acculturation, social mobility, and assimilation Includes an introductory essay by the volume editor.

The Newcomers

Author : Helen Thorpe
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501159097
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book The Newcomers written by Helen Thorpe and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-11-14 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the lives of twenty-two immigrant teens throughout the course of a year at Denver's South High School who attended a specially created English Language Acquisition class and who were helped to adapt through strategic introductions to American culture.

Newcomers: Book One

Author : Lojze Kovacic
Publisher : Archipelago
ISBN 13 : 0914671332
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (146 download)

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Download or read book Newcomers: Book One written by Lojze Kovacic and published by Archipelago. This book was released on 2016-05-24 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first volume of this three-part autobiographical series begins in 1938 with the expulsion of the Kovacic family from their home of Switzerland, eventually leading to their settlement in the father's home country of Slovenia. Narrated by Kovacic as a ten-year-old boy, he describes his family's journey with uncanny naiveté. Before leaving their home, he imagines his father's home country as something beautiful out of a fairytale, but as they make their way toward exile, he and his family realize that any attempt to make a home in Slovenia will be in vain. Confronted by misery, hunger, and hostility, the young boy refuses to learn Slovenian and falls silent, his surroundings becoming a social, cultural and mental abyss. Kovačič meticulously, boldly, and sincerely portrays the objective, everyday world; the style is clear and direct. Told from the point of view of a child, one memory is interrupted by fragments and visions of another. Some are innocent and tender, while others are miserable and ruthless, resulting in a profound and heart-wrenching description of a period torn apart by conflict, reflected in the author's powerful and innovative command of language.

Making Foreigners

Author : Kunal M. Parker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107030218
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Making Foreigners written by Kunal M. Parker and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-09-02 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book connects the history of immigration with histories of Native Americans, African Americans, women, the poor, Latino/a Americans and Asian Americans.

All About America: A Nation of Immigrants

Author : Paul Robert Walker
Publisher : Kingfisher
ISBN 13 : 9780753467138
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (671 download)

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Download or read book All About America: A Nation of Immigrants written by Paul Robert Walker and published by Kingfisher. This book was released on 2012-02-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All About America: A Nation of Immigrants by Paul Robert Walker Be part of history in action! Travel back in time to the most exciting and inspiring periods in American history. Action-packed and historically accurate, All About America covers the most important periods in the history of a burgeoning nation, from Colonists and Independence to The Civil War, and from Cowboys and the Wild West to the early inhabitants, the Native Americans. With detailed reconstructions and original artwork from each period, find yourself immersed in the incredible action, as you confront the redcoats, catch gold fever, journey West, and ride the trails, your trusty lasso at your side.

Alien Nation

Author : Peter Brimelow
Publisher : Random House (NY)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alien Nation written by Peter Brimelow and published by Random House (NY). This book was released on 1995 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The controversial, bestselling book (37,500 hardcover copies sold) that helps define the debate about one of the most important and hotly contested issues facing America: immigration.

Newcomers to Old Towns

Author : Sonya Salamon
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226734110
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book Newcomers to Old Towns written by Sonya Salamon and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2007-07-24 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2004 winner of the Robert E. Park Book Award from the Community and Urban Sociology Section (CUSS) of the American Sociological Association Although the death of the small town has been predicted for decades, during the 1990s the population of rural America actually increased by more than three million people. In this book, Sonya Salamon explores these rural newcomers and the impact they have on the social relationships, public spaces, and community resources of small town America. Salamon draws on richly detailed ethnographic studies of six small towns in central Illinois, including a town with upscale subdivisions that lured wealthy professionals as well as towns whose agribusinesses drew working-class Mexicano migrants and immigrants. She finds that regardless of the class or ethnicity of the newcomers, if their social status differs relative to that of oldtimers, their effect on a town has been the same: suburbanization that erodes the close-knit small town community, with especially severe consequences for small town youth. To successfully combat the homogenization of the heartland, Salamon argues, newcomers must work with oldtimers so that together they sustain the vital aspects of community life and identity that first drew them to small towns. An illustration of the recent revitalization of interest in the small town, Salamon's work provides a significant addition to the growing literature on the subject. Social scientists, sociologists, policymakers, and urban planners will appreciate this important contribution to the ongoing discussion of social capital and the transformation in the study and definition of communities.

One Mighty and Irresistible Tide: The Epic Struggle Over American Immigration, 1924-1965

Author : Jia Lynn Yang
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393635856
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book One Mighty and Irresistible Tide: The Epic Struggle Over American Immigration, 1924-1965 written by Jia Lynn Yang and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2020-05-19 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Zócalo Book Prize Shortlisted for the Arthur Ross Book Award Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice A "powerful and cogent" (Bethanne Patrick, Washington Post) account of the twentieth-century battle for immigration reform that set the stage for today’s roiling debates. The idea of the United States as a nation of immigrants is at the core of the American narrative. But in 1924, Congress instituted a system of ethnic quotas so stringent that it choked off large-scale immigration for decades, sharply curtailing arrivals from southern and eastern Europe and outright banning those from nearly all of Asia. In a riveting narrative filled with a fascinating cast of characters, from the indefatigable congressman Emanuel Celler and senator Herbert Lehman to the bull-headed Nevada senator Pat McCarran, Jia Lynn Yang recounts how lawmakers, activists, and presidents from Truman through LBJ worked relentlessly to abolish the 1924 law. Through a world war, a refugee crisis after the Holocaust, and a McCarthyist fever, a coalition of lawmakers and activists descended from Jewish, Irish, and Japanese immigrants fought to establish a new principle of equality in the American immigration system. Their crowning achievement, the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act, proved to be one of the most transformative laws in the country’s history, opening the door to nonwhite migration at levels never seen before—and changing America in ways that those who debated it could hardly have imagined. Framed movingly by her own family’s story of immigration to America, Yang’s One Mighty and Irresistible Tide is a deeply researched and illuminating work of history, one that shows how Americans have strived and struggled to live up to the ideal of a home for the “huddled masses,” as promised in Emma Lazarus’s famous poem.