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Almost all aliens : immigration, race, and colonialism in American history and identity / Paul Spickard.
LIBRA JV6450 .S75 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Spickard, Paul R., 1950-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States--Emigration and immigration--History.
- United States.
- Emigration and immigration.
- History.
- United States--Emigration and immigration--Government policy.
- Government policy.
- Discrimination--United States.
- Discrimination.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 721 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, [2007]
- Summary:
- Almost All Aliens puts forward a unique reinterpretation of immigration in the history of the United States. Leaving behind the traditional melting-pot model of immigrant assimilation, Paul Spickard offers a fresh and provocative reconceptualization that embraces the multicultural reality of immigration that has always existed in America. With a far-reaching, authoritative narrative, the book analyzes the complex relationship between immigration, ethnic identity and race, slavery, and colonial expansion. Examining not only the lives of those who crossed the Atlantic, but also those who crossed the Pacific, the Caribbean, and the North American Borderlands, Almost All Aliens redefines the definitive history of immigration and identity in the United States from 1600 until the present.
- Contents:
- Immigration, race, ethnicity, colonialism
- Colliding peoples in eastern North America, 1600-1780
- An Anglo-American republic? Racial citizenship, 1760-1860
- The border crossed us: Euro-Americans take the continent, 1830-1900
- The great wave, 1870-1930
- Cementing hierarchy: issues and interpretations, 1870-1930
- White people's America, 1924-1965
- New migrants from new places since 1965
- Redefining membership amid multiplicity since 1965
- Epilogue: future uncertain race, ethnicity, and immigration at the dawn of the twenty-first century.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 519-666) and index.
- ISBN:
- 041593592X
- 9780415935920
- 0415935938
- 9780415935937
- OCLC:
- 71810058
- Online:
- Publisher description
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