Author: Eugene Jerel Irwin
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Languages : en
Pages : 360
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An Americanization Program for a City Superintendent of Schools
Author: Eugene Jerel Irwin
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Languages : en
Pages : 360
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Languages : en
Pages : 360
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Americanizing the West
Author: Frank Van Nuys
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 322
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The arrival of immigrants on America's shores has always posed a singular problem: once they are here, how are these diverse peoples to be transformed into Americans? The Americanization movement of the 1910s and 1920s addressed this challenge by seeking to train immigrants for citizenship, representing a key element of the Progressives' "search for order" in a modernizing America. Frank Van Nuys examines for the first time how this movement, in an effort to help integrate an unruly West into the emerging national system, was forced to reconcile the myth of rugged individualism with the demands of a planned society. In an era convulsed by world war and socialist revolution, the Americanization movement was especially concerned about the susceptibility of immigrants to un-American propaganda and union agitation. As Van Nuys convincingly demonstrates, this applied as much to immigrants in the urbanizing and industrializing West as it did to those occupying the ethnic enclaves of cities in the East. In Americanizing the West he tells how hundreds of bureaucrats, educators, employers, and reformers participated in this movement by developing adult immigrant education programs-and how these attempts contributed more toward bureaucratizing the West than it did to turning immigrants into productive citizens. He deftly ties this history to broader national developments and shows how Westerners brought distinctive approaches to Americanization to accommodate and preserve their own sense of history and identity. Van Nuys shows that, although racism and social control agendas permeated Americanization efforts in the West, Americanizers sustained their faith in education as a powerful force in transforming immigrants into productive citizens. He also shows how some westerners-especially in California-believed they faced a "racial frontier" unlike other parts of the country in light of the influx of Hispanics and Asians, so that westerners became major players in the crafting of not only American identity but also immigration policies. The mystique of the white pioneer past still maintains a powerful hold on ideas of American identity, and we still deal with many of these issues through laws and propositions targeting immigrants and alien workers. Americanizing the West makes a clear case for regional distinctiveness in this citizenship program and puts current headlines in perspective by showing how it helped make the West what it is today.
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 322
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The arrival of immigrants on America's shores has always posed a singular problem: once they are here, how are these diverse peoples to be transformed into Americans? The Americanization movement of the 1910s and 1920s addressed this challenge by seeking to train immigrants for citizenship, representing a key element of the Progressives' "search for order" in a modernizing America. Frank Van Nuys examines for the first time how this movement, in an effort to help integrate an unruly West into the emerging national system, was forced to reconcile the myth of rugged individualism with the demands of a planned society. In an era convulsed by world war and socialist revolution, the Americanization movement was especially concerned about the susceptibility of immigrants to un-American propaganda and union agitation. As Van Nuys convincingly demonstrates, this applied as much to immigrants in the urbanizing and industrializing West as it did to those occupying the ethnic enclaves of cities in the East. In Americanizing the West he tells how hundreds of bureaucrats, educators, employers, and reformers participated in this movement by developing adult immigrant education programs-and how these attempts contributed more toward bureaucratizing the West than it did to turning immigrants into productive citizens. He deftly ties this history to broader national developments and shows how Westerners brought distinctive approaches to Americanization to accommodate and preserve their own sense of history and identity. Van Nuys shows that, although racism and social control agendas permeated Americanization efforts in the West, Americanizers sustained their faith in education as a powerful force in transforming immigrants into productive citizens. He also shows how some westerners-especially in California-believed they faced a "racial frontier" unlike other parts of the country in light of the influx of Hispanics and Asians, so that westerners became major players in the crafting of not only American identity but also immigration policies. The mystique of the white pioneer past still maintains a powerful hold on ideas of American identity, and we still deal with many of these issues through laws and propositions targeting immigrants and alien workers. Americanizing the West makes a clear case for regional distinctiveness in this citizenship program and puts current headlines in perspective by showing how it helped make the West what it is today.
Americanization: California's Answer. Issued by the Commission of Immigration and Housing of California. June 1, 1920
Author: California. Commission of Immigration and Housing
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Category : Americanization
Languages : en
Pages : 24
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Category : Americanization
Languages : en
Pages : 24
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Education and Americanization
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Immigration and Naturalization
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Category : Americanization
Languages : en
Pages : 234
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Category : Americanization
Languages : en
Pages : 234
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American Education
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 554
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 554
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The American City
Author: Arthur Hastings Grant
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Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 668
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Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 668
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The American School
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 400
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 400
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Americanization in Philadelphia
Author: Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce. Americanization Committee
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Category : Americanization
Languages : en
Pages : 118
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Category : Americanization
Languages : en
Pages : 118
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Americanization
Author: California. Commission of Immigration and Housing
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Category : Americanization
Languages : en
Pages : 396
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Category : Americanization
Languages : en
Pages : 396
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Americanization
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Category : Americanization
Languages : en
Pages : 250
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Publisher:
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Category : Americanization
Languages : en
Pages : 250
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