Immigration in American history / Kristen L. Anderson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Anderson, Kristen Layne, 1979- author.

Series:

Seminar Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Immigrants--United States--History.

Immigrants.

United States--Emigration and immigration--History.

United States.

United States--Emigration and immigration--History--Sources.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (213 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London, England ; New York, New York : Routledge, 2021.

Summary:

"Immigration in American History is a concise examination of the experiences of immigrants from the founding of the British colonies through the present day. The most recent scholarship on immigration is integrated into an accessible narrative that embraces the multicultural nature of U.S. immigration history, keeping issues of race and power at the center of the book. Organized chronologically, this book highlights how the migration experience evolved over time and emphasizes the interactions that occurred between different groups of migrants and the native-born. From the first interactions between the Native Americans and English colonizers at Jamestown, to the present-day debates over unauthorized immigration, the book helps students chart the evolution of American attitudes towards immigration and immigration policies and better contextualize present-day debates over immigration. The voices of immigrants are brought to the forefront in a poignant selection of primary source documents, and a glossary and "who's who" provides students with additional context for the people and concepts featured in the text. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of American immigration history and immigration policy history"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series Information

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of contents

List of figures

List of tables

List of maps

Acknowledgements

Chronology

Who's who

Glossary

Part 1 Analysis and assessment

1 Migration to the British colonies

The English arrive in Tsenacommacah-the Chesapeake

New England-a Puritan "city on a hill"

The Lowcountry-a colony of a colony

The middle colonies-diverse European migration

Eighteenth-century migration

Conclusion

2 Immigration during the early national and antebellum eras

Impact of the Revolution

Immigration during the early national period

Mass migration from Europe-the Germans and the Irish

The border crossed us: the first Mexican Americans

Gold mountain guests: the first Chinese Americans

Know Nothings and nativism

Immigration and whiteness

3 Immigration during the late nineteenth century

A new vision of American citizenship

Immigration during the late nineteenth century

Italians

Greeks

Poles

Eastern European Jews

Scandinavians

Japanese immigration

Mexican immigration

Urbanization during the Gilded Age

Large-scale industrialization

Industrial-scale resource extraction in the American West

The Homestead Act and Western agriculture

4 The road to restriction

The Chinese Exclusion Act

Segregation and the rise of Jim Crow

Pseudoscientific ideas about race and nativism

Disability and nativism

World War I

Crafting the National Origins Act

5 Immigration under the National Origins Act

Reduced immigration under the National Origins Act

Continued immigration during the 1920s

Mexicans

Filipinos

Puerto Ricans

Indian Sikhs

The Great Depression

World War II

Refugees during World War II

Braceros

Zoot Suit Riots.

Japanese internment

Long-term changes to immigration

6 Immigration during the late twentieth century

Immigration reform for the Cold War

Immigration during the Cold War

Immigration and the civil rights movement

The Immigration Act of 1965

Immigration from Asia

Southeast Asia

The Philippines

Korea

South Asia

China

Immigration from the Middle East

Immigration from Africa

Immigration from the western hemisphere

Mexico

Central America

The Caribbean

War and genocide

7 Immigration at the dawn of the twenty-first century

Concern about unauthorized immigration

The War on Terror and Islamophobia

Part 2 Documents

Document 1

Document 2

Excerpt from Boyrereau Brinch and Benjamin F. Prentiss, The Blind African Slave, or Memoirs of Boyrereau Brinch.

Document 3

Excerpt from Alexander Thomson, News from America, 1774.

Document 4

Naturalization Law of 1790

Document 5

Letter from Hannah Curtis to John Curtis, April 21, 1847.

Document 6

Excerpt from The 1842 Diary of Julia Turnau: Sailing from Bremen to New Orleans

Document 7

The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, February 2, 1848

Document 8

Proclamation by Juan Cortina regarding the treatment of Mexicans in Texas, 1859.

Document 9

Excerpt from Reminiscences by Huie Kin.

Document 10

Address of the Convention of Native American Democrats of the City of Brooklyn, in the County of Kings, to the Native American Democrats of Kings County, 1835.

Document 11

Interview with Miriam Gether Krasnow, November 29, 1983, interviewed by Dennis Cloutier with the Ellis Island Oral History Project.

Document 12

Excerpt from Out of the Shadow by Rose Cohen

Document 13

"The New Colossus" by Emma Lazarus

Document 14

"Unguarded Gates" by Thomas Bailey Aldrich.

Document 15

Excerpt from Some Reasons for Chinese Exclusion. Meat vs. Rice. American Manhood Against Asiatic Coolieism. Which Shall Survive?, 1902.

Document 16

Departure paper of Jung Kee Hoe, 1898

Document 17

"A Letter from Mrs. Tape," Daily Alta California, April 16, 1885

Document 18

Mary Church Terrell, "What It Means to Be Colored in the Capital of the United States"

Document 19

Photo of immigrants at Ellis Island suspected of being "mental defectives," early twentieth century.

Document 20

Excerpt from Alfred P. Schultz, Race or Mongrel?

Document 21

Excerpt from oral history with Mrs. Emilia Castañeda de Valenciana, interviewed by Christine Valenciana on September 8, 1971.

Document 22

Report from an embittered Nisei on why he answered "no" to the loyalty questionnaire, 1944

Document 23

Speech by President Franklin D. Roosevelt regarding the repeal of the Chinese exclusion laws, October 11, 1943.

Document 24

Proposal for Chicano Educational Development at the University of Washington, submitted by the United Mexican American Students (UMAS), May 5, 1969.

Document 25

Interview with Sarabjit Sikand, interviewed by Justin Nordstrom, 29 October 1998.

Document 26

Argument in favor of California Proposition 187

Document 27

Remarks by President Barack Obama on immigration, June 15, 2012.

Further reading

General overviews

Migration to Colonial British America

Migration to nineteenth-century America

Immigration in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries

Nativism and xenophobia

U.S. immigration policy

Racial theories and segregation

Disability and immigration

Immigration during the Great Depression and World War II

Late twentieth-century immigration

Immigration at the dawn of the twenty-first century

References

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-367-81544-3

1-000-37079-8

1-000-37078-X

9780367815448

OCLC:

1240585048