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Category : Foreign workers
Languages : en
Pages : 422
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Japanese and Other Immigrant Races in the Pacific Coast and Rocky Mountain States: Japanese and East Indians
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Category : Foreign workers
Languages : en
Pages : 422
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Category : Foreign workers
Languages : en
Pages : 422
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From All Points
Author: Elliott Robert Barkan
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253027969
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
A history of immigrants in the American West in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and their effect on the region. At a time when immigration policy is the subject of heated debate, this book makes clear that the true wealth of America is in the diversity of its peoples. By the end of the twentieth century, the American West was home to nearly half of America’s immigrant population, including Asians and Armenians, Germans and Greeks, Mexicans, Italians, Swedes, Basques, and others. This book tells their rich and complex story—of adaptation and isolation, maintaining and mixing traditions, and an ongoing ebb and flow of movement, assimilation, and replenishment. These immigrants and their children built communities, added to the region’s culture, and contended with discrimination and the lure of Americanization. The mark of the outsider, the alien, the nonwhite passed from group to group, even as the complexion of the region changed. The region welcomed, then excluded, immigrants, in restless waves of need and nativism that continue to this day. “Written in the fashion of Oscar Handlin, this study makes a convincing case that immigration history comprises an essential part of the history of the American West, and that appreciation of the former and the roles played by myriad alien arrivals is essential for understanding the latter. . . . Barkan . . . combines vignettes based on immigrant reminiscences with keen analysis to explore four related themes: various groups’ arrivals, their economic influences, their effects on public policy, and their adaptation and assimilation. The resulting narrative is readable and informative. . . . Recommended.” —Choice “A remarkable synthesis of the West as a region of immigrants. It tells the story of how vital immigrants were to economic growth and modernization. This will be the prime reference for 21st century scholars of immigration and ethnicity in the American West.” —Annals of Wyoming, Spring 2010
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253027969
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
A history of immigrants in the American West in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and their effect on the region. At a time when immigration policy is the subject of heated debate, this book makes clear that the true wealth of America is in the diversity of its peoples. By the end of the twentieth century, the American West was home to nearly half of America’s immigrant population, including Asians and Armenians, Germans and Greeks, Mexicans, Italians, Swedes, Basques, and others. This book tells their rich and complex story—of adaptation and isolation, maintaining and mixing traditions, and an ongoing ebb and flow of movement, assimilation, and replenishment. These immigrants and their children built communities, added to the region’s culture, and contended with discrimination and the lure of Americanization. The mark of the outsider, the alien, the nonwhite passed from group to group, even as the complexion of the region changed. The region welcomed, then excluded, immigrants, in restless waves of need and nativism that continue to this day. “Written in the fashion of Oscar Handlin, this study makes a convincing case that immigration history comprises an essential part of the history of the American West, and that appreciation of the former and the roles played by myriad alien arrivals is essential for understanding the latter. . . . Barkan . . . combines vignettes based on immigrant reminiscences with keen analysis to explore four related themes: various groups’ arrivals, their economic influences, their effects on public policy, and their adaptation and assimilation. The resulting narrative is readable and informative. . . . Recommended.” —Choice “A remarkable synthesis of the West as a region of immigrants. It tells the story of how vital immigrants were to economic growth and modernization. This will be the prime reference for 21st century scholars of immigration and ethnicity in the American West.” —Annals of Wyoming, Spring 2010
Strangers from a Different Shore
Author: Ronald T. Takaki
Publisher: eBookIt.com
ISBN: 1456611070
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1019
Book Description
In an extraordinary blend of narrative history, personal recollection, & oral testimony, the author presents a sweeping history of Asian Americans. He writes of the Chinese who laid tracks for the transcontinental railroad, of plantation laborers in the canefields of Hawaii, of "picture brides" marrying strangers in the hope of becoming part of the American dream. He tells stories of Japanese Americans behind the barbed wire of U.S. internment camps during World War II, Hmong refugees tragically unable to adjust to Wisconsin's alien climate & culture, & Asian American students stigmatized by the stereotype of the "model minority." This is a powerful & moving work that will resonate for all Americans, who together make up a nation of immigrants from other shores.
Publisher: eBookIt.com
ISBN: 1456611070
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1019
Book Description
In an extraordinary blend of narrative history, personal recollection, & oral testimony, the author presents a sweeping history of Asian Americans. He writes of the Chinese who laid tracks for the transcontinental railroad, of plantation laborers in the canefields of Hawaii, of "picture brides" marrying strangers in the hope of becoming part of the American dream. He tells stories of Japanese Americans behind the barbed wire of U.S. internment camps during World War II, Hmong refugees tragically unable to adjust to Wisconsin's alien climate & culture, & Asian American students stigmatized by the stereotype of the "model minority." This is a powerful & moving work that will resonate for all Americans, who together make up a nation of immigrants from other shores.
Abstracts of reports of the Immigration commision
Author: United States. Immigration Commission (1907-1910)
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Category : Emigration and immigration
Languages : en
Pages : 932
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Category : Emigration and immigration
Languages : en
Pages : 932
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Abstract of the Report on Japanese and Other Immigrant Races in the Pacific Coast and Rocky Mountain States
Author: United States. Immigration Commission (1907-1910)
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Category : Japanese
Languages : en
Pages : 88
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Category : Japanese
Languages : en
Pages : 88
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Bibliography on the Japanese in American Agriculture
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 72
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 72
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Index-catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon General's Office, United States Army (Army Medical Library)
Author: Army Medical Library (U.S.)
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Category : Incunabula
Languages : en
Pages : 1250
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Category : Incunabula
Languages : en
Pages : 1250
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A History of Islam in America
Author: Kambiz GhaneaBassiri
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521849640
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 457
Book Description
Traces the history of Muslims in the US and their waves of immigration and conversion across five centuries.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521849640
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 457
Book Description
Traces the history of Muslims in the US and their waves of immigration and conversion across five centuries.
Index-catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office, United States Army
Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
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Category : Incunabula
Languages : en
Pages : 1256
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Category : Incunabula
Languages : en
Pages : 1256
Book Description
Making Ethnic Choices
Author: Karen Leonard
Publisher: Temple University Press
ISBN: 1439903646
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Defining and changing perceptions of ethnic identity.
Publisher: Temple University Press
ISBN: 1439903646
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Defining and changing perceptions of ethnic identity.