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1 online resource (xx, 721 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 519-666) and index. |
| Contents |
Acknowledgments -- Preface -- 1. Immigration, race, ethnicity, colonialism -- Beyond Ellis Island--how not to think about immigration history -- Words matter -- 2. Colliding peoples in Eastern North America, 1600-1780 -- In the beginning there were Indians -- There goes the neighborhood : European incursion and "settlement" -- A mixed multitude : European migrants -- Out of Africa -- Merging peoples, blending cultures -- 3. An Anglo-American republic? Racial citizenship, 1760-1860 -- Slavery and anti-slavery in the era of the American Revolution -- Free white persons : defining membership -- Playing Indian : white appropriations of Native American symbols and identities -- European immigrants -- Issues in European migration -- Nativism -- Were the Irish ever not white? -- 4. Border crossed us : Euro-Americans take the continent, 1830-1900 -- U.S. colonial expansion across North America -- Taking the Mexican northlands -- Racial replacement -- East from Asia -- Slave and citizen -- Colonialism and race making -- 5. Great wave, 1870-1930 -- From new sources and old, to America and back -- Making a multiethnic working class in the West -- 6. Cementing hierarchy : issues and interpretations, 1870-1930 -- How they lived and worked -- Gender and migration -- Angles of entry -- Making Jim Crow in the South -- Making racial and ethnic hierarchy in the North -- Empire and race making -- Law, race, and immigration -- Racialist pseudoscience and its offspring -- Anti-immigrant movements -- Interpretive issues -- 7. White people's America, 1924-1965 -- Recruiting citizens -- Recruiting guest workers -- Indians or citizens? -- World War II -- Cracks in white hegemony -- Racial fairness and the Immigration Act of 1965 -- 8. New migrants from new places since 1965 -- Some migrants we know -- From Asia -- From the Americas -- From Europe -- From Africa -- Continuing involvements abroad -- 9. Redefining membership amid multiplicity since 1965 -- Immigration reform, again and again -- Panethnic power -- Disgruntled white people -- New issues in a new era -- 10. Epilogue : future uncertain : race, ethnicity, and immigration at the dawn of the twenty-first century -- Projecting the future -- Immigration issues -- Reprise -- Appendices -- Appendix A. Chronology of immigration and naturalization laws and decisions -- Appendix B. Tables -- Notes -- Illustration permission acknowledgments -- Also by Paul Spickard -- Index. |
| Summary |
"Almost All Aliens offers a unique reinterpretation of immigration in the history of the United States. Leaving behind the traditional melting-pot model of immigrant assimilation, Paul Spickard puts forward a fresh and provocative reconceptualization that embraces the multicultural reality of immigration that has always existed in the United States. His astute study illustrates the complex relationship between ethnic identity and race, slavery, and colonial expansion. Examining not only the lives of those who crossed the Atlantic, but also those who crossed the Pacific, the Caribbean, and the North American Borderlands, Almost All Aliens provides a distinct, inclusive analysis of immigration and identity in the United States from 1600 until the present"--Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
United States -- Emigration and immigration -- History.
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United States. |
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Emigration and immigration. |
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History. |
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United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Government policy.
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Government policy. |
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Discrimination -- United States.
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Discrimination. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Spickard, Paul R., 1950- Almost all aliens. New York : Routledge, ©2007 041593592X (DLC) 2006031874 (OCoLC)71810058 |
| ISBN |
9780203940846 (electronic book) |
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0203940849 (electronic book) |
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9780415935920 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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041593592X (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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9780415935937 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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0415935938 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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