American Immigration and Ethnicity : A Reader.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (356 pages)
Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface and Introduction -- One A Comparison of Contemporary Immigration and the New Immigration of the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries -- Introduction -- Pyong Gap Min, "A Comparison of Post-1965 and Turn-of-the-Century Immigrants in Intergenerational Mobility and Cultural Transmission" -- Two Making a New Home in a New Land-Resettling in the United States -- Introduction -- Virginia Yans-McLaughlin,"New Wine In Old Bottles: Family, Community, and Immigration" -- Mary Antin, The Promised Land -- Barry Newman,"For Asians in the U.S., Mini-Chinatowns Sprout in Suburbia" -- Three Transnational Ties:The Immigrants' Continuing Relationships with Their Homelands -- Introduction -- Johanna Lessinger,"Investing or Going Home? A Transnational Strategy among Indian Immigrants in the United States" -- Lawrence J. McCaffrey, The Irish Diaspora in America -- Silvio Torres-Saillant,"Nothing to Celebrate" -- Four Ethnicity and Ethnic Identification -- Introduction -- Kathleen Neils Conzen, David A. Gerber, Ewa Morawska, George E. Pozzetta, Rudolph J.Vecoli,"The Invention of Ethnicity:A Perspective from the USA" -- Claire S. Chow,"Ethnicity and Identity:What It Means to Be Asian American" -- Five Generations -- Introduction -- Victor Greene,"Old-time Folk Dancing and Music among the Second Generation, 1920-50" -- Jane Addams, Twenty Years at Hull-House -- Stephen Henderson,"Rakhi Dhanoa and Ranjeet Purewal" -- Six Nativism, an American Perennial -- Introduction -- George J. Sánchez,"Face the Nation: Race, Immigration, and the Rise of Nativism in Late-Twentieth-Century-America" -- Edward Alworth Ross,"American Blood and Immigrant Blood" -- Peter Brimelow, "Time to Rethink Immigration?" -- Seven Becoming White: Irish Immigrants in the Nineteenth Century. Introduction -- David R. Roediger, "Irish-American Workers and White Racial Formation in the Antebellum United States" -- Niles National Register-August 6, 1842-State of the Union, "Riot in Philadelphia: Conflicts between Whites and Blacks" -- Frederick Douglass,"Colored Americans, and Aliens-T. F. Meagher" -- Stephan A. Douglas (Speech at Jonesboro, Illinois) -- Eight Becoming Black: Contemporary Jamaicans and West Indians in the 1990s -- Introduction -- Adam Nossiter, "A Jamaican Way Station in the Bronx: Community of Striving Immigrants Fosters Middle-Class Values" -- Milton Vickerman, Crosscurrents:West Indian Immigrants and Race -- Virginia Turner, "Jamaicans Outraged: New York Police Targeting West Indians" -- Nine What the Immigrants Make,America Takes: Work in Immigrant Communities -- Introduction -- Mark Wyman, "Immigrants in an Industrializing Economy" -- Louise C. Odencrantz, Italian Women in Industry:A Study of Conditions in New York City -- Laura Parker, "USA Just Wouldn't Work Without Immigrant Labor -- Demand will Continue to Grow for High- and Low-skilled" -- Ten Family, Domestic Economy, and Women's and Men's Lives -- Introduction -- Nancy Foner,"Immigrant Women and Work in New York City, Then and Now" -- Margaret Byington,"Family Life of the Slavs" -- Sonia Shah, "Three Hot Meals and a Full Day at Work: South Asian Women's Labor in the United States" -- Eleven Language: Social and Political Perspectives -- Introduction -- Stanley Lieberson and Timothy J. Curry, "Language Shift in the United States: Some Demographic Clues" -- Richard Rodriguez, Hunger for Memory:The Education of Richard Rodriguez-An Autobiography -- Guillermo X. Garcia,"Border Battle Centers on 'Spanish-only' Town" -- Twelve The Physical Health and Mental Well-Being of Immigrants -- Introduction. Alan M. Kraut," 'That Is the American Way.And in America You Should Do as Americans Do': Italian Customs,American Standards" -- John Foster Carr, Guide for the Immigrant Italian in the United States of America -- Sarah Kershaw,"Freud Meets Buddha: Therapy for Immigrants" -- Thirteen Traditions and Invented Traditions -- Introduction -- Robert Anthony Orsi, "The Origins of the Devotion to Mount Carmel in Italian Harlem" -- A Reader from the Bronx,"Letter to the Editor" (of the Jewish Daily Forward) -- Bruce Frankel,"Savannah Going All-out Irish: Just 1% Irish, but City Boasts Gigantic Fest" -- Fourteen Ethnicity and American Popular Culture -- Introduction -- Donna R. Gabaccia, "The Big Business of Eating" -- Emily Wax,"World's Fare: Schools Offer Ethnic Dishes to Entice their Increasingly Diverse Students" -- Index.