Immigration in American History

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
		Conclusion
	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
		Conclusion
	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
		Conclusion
	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
		Conclusion
	7 Immigration at the dawn of the twenty-first century
		Concern about unauthorized immigration
		The War on Terror and Islamophobia
		Conclusion
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