Immigrant Voices : New Lives in America, 1773-2000

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thomas Dublin, Dublin

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Immigrants.

Immigrants' writings, American.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (312 p.)

Edition:

Second edition

Place of Publication:

University of Illinois Press

Summary:

<div> A classroom staple, Immigrant Voices: New Lives in America, 1773-2000 has been updated with writings that reflect trends in immigration to the United States through the turn of the twenty-first century. New chapters include a selection of letters from Irish immigrants fleeing the famine of the 1840s, writings from an immigrant who escaped the civil war in Liberia during the 1980s, and letters that crossed the U.S.-Mexico border during the late 1980s and early '90s. With each addition editor Thomas Dublin has kept to his original goals, which was to show the commonalities of the U.S. immigrant experience across lines of gender, nation of origin, race, and even time. </div>

Contents:

The John Harrower diary, 1773-1776

Irish immigrant letters, 1847-1848

The William and Sophie Frank Seyffardt letters, 1851-1863

Rosa Cassettari : from Northern Italy to Chicago, 1884-1926

Rose Gollup : from Russia to the Lower East Side in the 1890s

The childhood of Mary Paik, 1905-1917

Kazuko Itoi : a Nisei daughter's story, 1925-1942

The Nguyen family : from Vietnam to Chicago, 1975-1986

Helene Cooper : a Liberian immigrant's story, 1980

The California-Mexico letters of Angela Gomez, 1988-1990.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780252094354

0252094352