America Classifies the Immigrants Book [PDF] Download

• Publisher : Harvard University Press
• File Size : 53,9 Mb
• Release Date : 26 March 2018

Joel Perlmann traces the history of U.S. classification of immigrants, from Ellis Island to the present day, showing how slippery and contested ideas about racial, national, and ethnic difference

• Publisher : Harvard University Press
• File Size : 24,7 Mb
• Release Date : 26 March 2018

When more than twenty million immigrants arrived in the United States between 1880 and 1920, the government attempted to classify them according to prevailing ideas about race and nationality. But this proved

• Publisher : Russell Sage Foundation
• File Size : 27,6 Mb
• Release Date : 22 April 2004

Immigration is one of the driving forces behind social change in the United States, continually reshaping the way Americans think about race and ethnicity. How have various racial and ethnic

• Publisher : University of Chicago Press
• File Size : 32,6 Mb
• Release Date : 21 May 2019

Transnationalism means many things to many people, from crossing physical borders to crossing intellectual ones. The Limits of Transnationalism reassesses the overly optimistic narratives often associated with this malleable term,

• Publisher : Stanford University Press
• File Size : 38,9 Mb
• Release Date : 13 June 2012

“Anyone who believes that the American racial structure is characterized by unmovable white/black boundaries should read this book.” —Michèle Lamont, Harvard University, author of The Dignity of Working

• Publisher : Duke University Press
• File Size : 45,8 Mb
• Release Date : 28 February 2019

When Gina was deported to Tijuana, Mexico, in 2011, she left behind her parents, siblings, and children, all of whom are U.S. citizens. Despite having once had a green card,

• Publisher : Harvard University Press
• File Size : 41,9 Mb
• Release Date : 01 May 2018

In 1907 the U.S. Congress created a joint commission to investigate what many Americans saw as a national crisis: an unprecedented number of immigrants flowing into the United States. Experts—

• Publisher : Princeton University Press
• File Size : 40,9 Mb
• Release Date : 11 April 2017

Conventionally, US immigration history has been understood through the lens of restriction and those who have been barred from getting in. In contrast, The Good Immigrants considers immigration from the

• Publisher : Univ of California Press
• File Size : 53,8 Mb
• Release Date : 19 May 2024

How Race Is Made in America examines Mexican AmericansÑfrom 1924, when American law drastically reduced immigration into the United States, to 1965, when many quotas were abolishedÑto understand how broad

• Publisher : The Palingenesis Project (Wermod and Wermod Publishing Group)
• File Size : 42,9 Mb
• Release Date : 31 May 2012

The Passing of the Great Race is one of the most prominent racially oriented books of all times, written by the most influential American conservationist that ever lived. Historically, topically,