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Author : David Levinson
Publisher : MacMillan Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9780028972138
Total Pages : 568 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Immigrant Cultures written by David Levinson and published by MacMillan Publishing Company. This book was released on 1997 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States is a nation of immigrants. Since the Declaration of Independence, but especially since the mid-nineteenth century.

Author : David Levinson
Publisher : Macmillan Reference USA
ISBN 13 : 9780028972145
Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Immigrant Cultures written by David Levinson and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 1997 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States is a nation of immigrants. Since the Declaration of Independence, but especially since the mid-nineteenth century.

Author : David Levinson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780028972138
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American immigrant cultures : builders of a nation. 2. K - Z, Index written by David Levinson and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents descriptive profiles of ethnic groups, with defining features of the groups, immigration and settlement history, demographic facts, languages spoken, cultural characteristics, and extent of assimilation or cultural persistence.

Author : Concha Delgado-Gaitan
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000777316
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crossing Cultural Borders written by Concha Delgado-Gaitan and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-11-16 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crossing Cultural Borders (1991) examines the day-to-day interaction of immigrant children with adults, siblings and peers in the home, school and community at large as these families demonstrate their skill in using their culture to survive in a new society. Children of Mexican and Central American immigrant families in Secoya crossed a national border, and continue to cross linguistic, social and cultural borders that separate the home, school and outside world.

Author : David Levinson
Publisher : Macmillan Reference USA
ISBN 13 : 9780028972145
Total Pages : 586 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Immigrant Cultures written by David Levinson and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 1997 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States is a nation of immigrants. Since the Declaration of Independence, but especially since the mid-nineteenth century.

Author : Lisa Lowe
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822318644
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Immigrant Acts written by Lisa Lowe and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Immigrant Acts, Lisa Lowe argues that understanding Asian immigration to the United States is fundamental to understanding the racialized economic and political foundations of the nation. Lowe discusses the contradictions whereby Asians have been included in the workplaces and markets of the U.S. nation-state, yet, through exclusion laws and bars from citizenship, have been distanced from the terrain of national culture. Lowe argues that a national memory haunts the conception of Asian American, persisting beyond the repeal of individual laws and sustained by U.S. wars in Asia, in which the Asian is seen as the perpetual immigrant, as the "foreigner-within." In Immigrant Acts, she argues that rather than attesting to the absorption of cultural difference into the universality of the national political sphere, the Asian immigrant--at odds with the cultural, racial, and linguistic forms of the nation--displaces the temporality of assimilation. Distance from the American national culture constitutes Asian American culture as an alternative site that produces cultural forms materially and aesthetically in contradiction with the institutions of citizenship and national identity. Rather than a sign of a "failed" integration of Asians into the American cultural sphere, this critique preserves and opens up different possibilities for political practice and coalition across racial and national borders. In this uniquely interdisciplinary study, Lowe examines the historical, political, cultural, and aesthetic meanings of immigration in relation to Asian Americans. Extending the range of Asian American critique, Immigrant Acts will interest readers concerned with race and ethnicity in the United States, American cultures, immigration, and transnationalism.

Author : Rachel Lee Rubin
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814775535
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Immigration and American Popular Culture written by Rachel Lee Rubin and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Immigration and American Popular Culture looks at the relationship between American immigrants and the popular culture industry in the twentieth century. Through a series of case studies, Rachel Rubin and Jeffrey Melnick uncover how particular trends in popular culture-such as portrayals of European immigrants as gangsters in 1930s cinema, the zoot suits of the 1940s, the influence of Jamaican Americans on rap in the 1970s, and cyberpunk and Asian American zines in the 1990s-have their roots in the complex socio-political nature of immigration in America. Supplemented by a timeline of key events, Immigration and American Popular Culture offers a unique history of twentieth-century U.S. immigration and an essential introduction to the study of popular culture.

Author : Lance Johnson
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781478131359
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What Foreigners Need to Know About America from a to Z written by Lance Johnson and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2012-07-01 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique book paints a revealing picture of America and its people for those foreigners who will benefit from a better understanding of America. It will also inform Americans who want to learn more about the U.S. and how it compares to other countries around the world. World traveler and teacher Lance Johnson studies cultural differences and the difficulties foreigners have understanding crazy America, as some call it. Foreigners might come to the U.S. to work for American employers, to open branch offices or factories for their homeland employers, to start their own businesses, or go to school. Others might work for American organizations in their homelands or have American teachers there. An understanding of American culture and language will contribute to their success. As the title suggests, this book is for “foreigners.” Dictionaries say they are people who are not citizens of a country. For this book they are defined as anyone who is not sufficiently familiar with American culture to achieve success. This includes the multitudes of foreign-born, naturalized citizens who have lived in the U.S. for years and still struggle with the ways and the language. A foreigner could also be a first-generation American whose immigrant parents did not fully expose their children to American culture and they now pay the price in mainstream U.S. There are lots of other examples, too. FORMAT Each of the 26 chapters' brush strokes contributes to the final painting of what America is all about. The chapters are grouped into four books. (An all-in-one book is also available.) •Book 1 (A to G) – America's Heritage. This defines the historical background of why America and its people became who and what they are today. •Book 2 (H to T) – America's Culture. This section describes everyday life in America, ranging from customs and etiquette, to what's on the minds of Americans, to education. Practical advice is provided for the one million foreign applicants who seek and gain admission to U.S. colleges and universities each year. Pointers are provided on the cultural differences students should expect, and how to get the most from their education once enrolled. •Book 3 (U to X, this book) – America's Business. This explains the complex business environment, operations, and people-related customs and why the U.S. is an economic juggernaut. Information is provided for starting a business of your own in the U.S. as well as how to increase the chances of your getting hired by an American firm in the U.S. or abroad. •Book 4 (Y to Z) – America's Language. These chapters discuss practical ways to improve English grammar, speech, writing, communication skills, and reducing accents. Common English grammar and speech errors made by foreigners are identified and simple tips are provided for overcoming them. ENDORSEMENTS “I congratulate you on writing this timely work. This will promote better mutual understanding between America and Asia." - Tommy Koh, Singapore Ambassador to the U.N. and U.S. “Your book covers a broad range of topics that I am sure many…will find very useful.” - Clark T. Randt, Jr., U.S. Ambassador to China. “I greatly appreciate your efforts in sharing with other people your opinion and experience on the exchanges between different peoples and cultures. It is so important for us to better understand each other while striving to build a better world for all.” - Zhou Wenzhong, China Ambassador to U.S. “ I found this book refreshingly different from the general run of books in this genre.” - Mohammad Vazeeruddin, India journalist. “The A to Z chapters are nicely written and...the language is simple and lucid.” - Jay Gajjar, India language professor. “I love this book's generous use of helpful hints. I highly recommend it for anyone who wants to learn more about America like I did." - Sarah Kim, Korean American business owner.

Author : Donna R. Gabaccia
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN 13 : 9780631220329
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Immigration and American Diversity written by Donna R. Gabaccia and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 2002-03-12 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This engaging textbook is a concise overview of a sweeping topic - American Immigration. Immigration is core to the history of America - a "Nation of Immigrants" who are diverse by definition. Beginning with the first arrival of migrants from Asia, Africa, and Europe, and ending with a discussion of the United States at the turn of the 21st century, this book offers an unflinching analysis of the complex relationship between America's national solidarity and ethnic diversity.

Author : Tomas Jimenez
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520295706
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Other Side of Assimilation written by Tomas Jimenez and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2017-07-18 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The (not-so-strange) strangers in their midst -- Salsa and ketchup : cultural exposure and adoption -- Spotlight on white : fade to black -- Living with difference and similarity -- Living locally, thinking nationally