American dreaming, global realities : rethinking U.S. immigration history / edited by Donna R. Gabaccia and Vicki L. Ruiz.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gabaccia, Donna R., 1949-

Ruíz, Vicki.

Series:

Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Centennial series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Immigrants--United States--History.

Immigrants.

United States.

History.

United States--Emigration and immigration--History.

Emigration and immigration.

Physical Description:

x, 563 pages ; 27 cm.

Place of Publication:

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2006]

Summary:

Representing a selection of the finest new research on immigration, American Dreaming, Global Realities explores the ways in which immigrant lives and those of their children are shaped by transnational bonds, globalization, family ties, and personal choice, and the ways in which they engender a sense of belonging and a sense of themselves as "Americans."

American Dreaming, Global Realities considers a plurality of very specific historical, economic, regional, familial, and cultural contexts. This history reveals resistance and accommodation, both persistent older traditions and Americanization, plus the creation of new cultural forms blending old and new. The twenty-two interdisciplinary essays included in this collection showcase some of the best from the new directions in U.S. immigration history and explore the intricate overlapping of race, class, and gender on ethnic identity and on American citizenship.

Contents:

1 The Burden of Their Song: Immigrant Encounters with the Republic / Jon Gjerde 9

2 The Mercurial Nature and Abiding Power of Race: A Transnational Family Story / Martha A. Hodes 35

3 Arriving, Settling In, and Surviving: German Women in the Midwest / Linda Schelbitzki Pickle 68

4 Gender Ideology and Black Women as Community-Builders in Ontario, Canada, 1850-70 / Shirley J. Yee 125

5 "A Distinct and Antagonistic Race": Constructions of Chinese Manhood in the Exclusionist Debates, 1869-78 / Karen J. Leong 141

6 Enforcing the Borders: Chinese Exclusion along the U.S. Borders with Canada and Mexico, 1882-1924 / Erika Lee 158

7 When the Migrants Are Men: Italy's Women and Transnationalism as a Working-class Way of Life / Donna R. Gabaccia 190

8 Boomers, Sooners, and Settlers: Americans in Mexico / John Mason Hart 207

9 Back to the Mountain: Emigration, Gender, and the Middle Class in Lebanon / Akram Fouad Khater 227

10 Reinventing Free Labor: Immigrant Padrones and Contract Laborers in North America, 1885-1925 / Gunther Peck 263

11 Race, Labor, and Citizenship in Hawaii / Evelyn Nakano Glenn 284

12 Turning the Tables on Assimilation: Oglala Lakotas and the Pine Ridge Day Schools, 1889-1920s / Thomas G. Andrews 321

13 Confronting "America": Mexican Women and the Rose Gregory Houchen Settlement / Vicki L. Ruiz 343

14 Partly Colored or Other White: Mexican Americans and Their Problem with the Color Line / Neil Foley 361

15 Was Mom Chung a "Sister Lesbian"? Asian American Gender Experimentation and Interracial Homoeroticism / Judy Tzu-Chun Wu 379

16 Intraethnic Conflict and the Bracero Program during World War II / Matthew Garcia 399

17 Across Generations: Polish Americans and Polish Immigrants / Mary Patrice Erdmans 411

18 "Ser De Aqui": Beyond the Cuban Exile Model / Nancy Raquel Mirabal 441

19 Between Culture and Politics: The Emma Lazarus Federation of Jewish Women's Clubs, 1944-89 / Joyce Antler 457

20 "We Don't Sleep Around Like White Girls Do": Family, Culture, and Gender in Filipina American Lives / Yen Le Espiritu 484

21 Born Again in East L.A.: The Congregation as Border Space / Luis Leon 504

22 From Ellis Island to JFK: Transnational Ties / Nancy Foner 530.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0252030648

0252073053

9780252030642

9780252073052

OCLC:

62089837

Publisher Number:

9780252030642

9780252073052