Essays evolved from a 54 part television series entitled "The immigrant in American life," produced for summer semester in 1973.
Includes index.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Hispanic impact upon the United States / by Theodore S. Beardsley, Jr. -- From the Rhine to the Mississippi: the German emigration to the United States / by Frank J. Coppa -- Norwegians in America: "giants in the earth" / by Kenneth O. Bjork -- From "Paddy" to the presidency: the Irish in America / by Thomas J. Curran -- Those who followed Columbus: the Italian migration to the United States of America / by Frank J. Coppa -- Jews: from the ghettos of Europe to the suburbs of the United States / by Morton Rosenstock -- Black Americans: immigrants against their will / by John Henrick Clarke -- Asian experience in the United States / by Frank Ching -- McCarran-Walter Act and the conflict over immigration policy during the Truman administration / by Philip C. Dolce.
