American Immigration and Ethnicity: A Reader

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Preface and Introduction....Pages 1-11
A Comparison of Contemporary Immigration and the New Immigration of the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries....Pages 13-31
Making a New Home in a New Land—Resettling in the United States....Pages 32-56
Transnational Ties: The Immigrants’ Continuing Relationships with Their Homelands....Pages 57-80
Ethnicity and Ethnic Identification....Pages 81-104
Generations....Pages 105-125
Nativism, an American Perennial....Pages 126-160
Becoming White: Irish Immigrants in the Nineteenth Century....Pages 161-182
Becoming Black: Contemporary Jamaicans and West Indians in the 1990s....Pages 183-201
What the Immigrants Make, America Takes: Work in Immigrant Communities....Pages 202-230
Family, Domestic Economy, and Women’s and Men’s Lives....Pages 231-258
Language: Social and Political Perspectives....Pages 259-277
The Physical Health and Mental Well-Being of Immigrants....Pages 278-299
Traditions and Invented Traditions....Pages 300-318
Ethnicity and American Popular Culture....Pages 319-339
Back Matter....Pages 340-345