Immigration And The American Ethos

Author : Morris Levy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108488811
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Immigration and the American Ethos written by Morris Levy and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-02 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Above and beyond the influence of prejudice and ethno-nationalism, perceptions of 'civic fairness' shape how most Americans navigate immigration controversies.

Author : Alan Wieder
Publisher : University Press of Amer
ISBN 13 : 9780819147943
Total Pages : 117 pages
Book Rating : 4.4X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Immigration, the Public School, and the 20th Century American Ethos written by Alan Wieder and published by University Press of Amer. This book was released on 1985 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BD^R Explores the educational and societal experiences of the 20th century American immigrant by using the situation of the Jewish immigrant as a case study. Approaches such questions as: Did the schools promote or hinder immigrants' quest for the American Dream? Was, and is, the melting pot a myth or reality? and, Are there prices to pay for the American Drea

Author : Roger White
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786435284
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Immigration Policy and the Shaping of U.S. Culture written by Roger White and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2018 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author examines the relationships between immigration policy, observed immigration patterns, and cultural differences between the United States and immigrants’ source countries. The entirety of U.S. immigration history (1607-present) is reviewed through a recounting of related legislative acts and by examining data on immigrant inflows and cross-societal cultural distances.

Author : Reed Ueda
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1444391658
Total Pages : 931 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Companion to American Immigration written by Reed Ueda and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-03-21 with total page 931 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to American Immigration is an authoritative collection of original essays by leading scholars on the major topics and themes underlying American immigration history. Focuses on the two most important periods in American Immigration history: the Industrial Revolution (1820-1930) and the Globalizing Era (Cold War to the present) Provides an in-depth treatment of central themes, including economic circumstances, acculturation, social mobility, and assimilation Includes an introductory essay by the volume editor.

Author : Alan Vernon Wieder
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Immigration, the Public Schools, and the Twentieth Century American Ethos written by Alan Vernon Wieder and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David A. Gerber
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197542441
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Immigration: A Very Short Introduction written by David A. Gerber and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-03-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An updated, penetrating, and balanced analysis of one of the most contentious issues in America today, offering a historically informed portrait of immigration. Americans have come from every corner of the globe, and they have been brought together by a variety of historical processes--conquest, colonialism, the slave trade, territorial acquisition, and voluntary immigration. In this Very Short Introduction, historian David A. Gerber captures the histories of dozens of American ethnic groups over more than two centuries and reveals how American life has been formed in significant ways by immigration. He discusses the relationships between race and ethnicity in the life of these groups and in the formation of American society, as well as explaining how immigration policy and legislation have helped to form those relationships. Moreover, by highlighting the parallels that contemporary patterns of immigration and resettlement share with those of the past - which Americans now generally regard as having had positive outcomes - the book offers an optimistic portrait of current immigration that is at odds with much present-day opinion. Newly updated, this book speaks directly to the ongoing fears of immigration that have fueled the debate about both illegal immigration and the need for stronger immigration laws and a border wall.

Author : Alan Wieder
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Immigration, the Public School, and the Twentieth Century American Ethos written by Alan Wieder and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alan Vernon Wieder
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 306 pages
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Download or read book Immigration, the Public Schools, and the Twentieth Century American Ethos written by Alan Vernon Wieder and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gary Gerstle
Publisher : Russell Sage Foundation
ISBN 13 : 161044244X
Total Pages : 437 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book E Pluribus Unum? written by Gary Gerstle and published by Russell Sage Foundation. This book was released on 2001-11-29 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The political involvement of earlier waves of immigrants and their children was essential in shaping the American political climate in the first half of the twentieth century. Immigrant votes built industrial trade unions, fought for social protections and religious tolerance, and helped bring the Democratic Party to dominance in large cities throughout the country. In contrast, many scholars find that today's immigrants, whose numbers are fast approaching those of the last great wave, are politically apathetic and unlikely to assume a similar voice in their chosen country. E Pluribus Unum? delves into the wealth of research by historians of the Ellis Island era and by social scientists studying today's immigrants and poses a crucial question: What can the nation's past experience teach us about the political path modern immigrants and their children will take as Americans? E Pluribus Unum? explores key issues about the incorporation of immigrants into American public life, examining the ways that institutional processes, civic ideals, and cultural identities have shaped the political aspirations of immigrants. The volume presents some surprising re-assessments of the past as it assesses what may happen in the near future. An examination of party bosses and the party machine concludes that they were less influential political mobilizers than is commonly believed. Thus their absence from today's political scene may not be decisive. Some contributors argue that the contemporary political system tends to exclude immigrants, while others remind us that past immigrants suffered similar exclusions, achieving political power only after long and difficult struggles. Will the strong home country ties of today's immigrants inhibit their political interest here? Chapters on this topic reveal that transnationalism has always been prominent in the immigrant experience, and that today's immigrants may be even freer to act as dual citizens. E Pluribus Unum? theorizes about the fate of America's civic ethos—has it devolved from an ideal of liberal individualism to a fractured multiculturalism, or have we always had a culture of racial and ethnic fragmentation? Research in this volume shows that today's immigrant schoolchildren are often less concerned with ideals of civic responsibility than with forging their own identity and finding their own niche within the American system of racial and ethnic distinction. Incorporating the significant influx immigrants into American society is a central challenge for our civic and political institutions—one that cuts to the core of who we are as a people and as a nation. E Pluribus Unum? shows that while today's immigrants and their children are in some ways particularly vulnerable to political alienation, the process of assimilation was equally complex for earlier waves of immigrants. This past has much to teach us about the way immigration is again reshaping the nation.

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.