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Oxford Handbook of American Immigration and Ethnicity (Paperback)
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Oxford Handbook of American Immigration and Ethnicity (Paperback)
Series: Oxford Handbooks
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Scholarship on immigration to America is a coin with two sides: it
asks both how America changed immigrants, and how they changed
America. Were the immigrants uprooted from their ancestral homes,
leaving everything behind, or were they transplanted, bringing many
aspects of their culture with them? Although historians agree with
the transplantation concept, the notion of the melting pot, which
suggests a complete loss of the immigrant culture, persists in the
public mind. The Oxford Handbook of American Immigration and
Ethnicity bridges this gap and offers a comprehensive and nuanced
survey of American racial and ethnic development, assessing the
current status of historical research and simultaneously setting
the goals for future investigation. Early immigration historians
focused on the European migration model, and the ethnic appeal of
politicians such as Fiorello La Guardia and James Michael Curley in
cities with strong ethno-political histories like New York and
Boston. But the story of American ethnicity goes far beyond Ellis
Island. Only after the 1965 Immigration Act and the increasing
influx of non-Caucasian immigrants, scholars turned more fully to
the study of African, Asian and Latino migrants to America. This
Handbook brings together thirty eminent scholars to describe the
themes, methodologies, and trends that characterize the history and
current debates on American immigration. The Handbook's trenchant
chapters provide compelling analyses of cutting-edge issues
including identity, whiteness, borders and undocumented migration,
immigration legislation, intermarriage, assimilation, bilingualism,
new American religions, ethnicity-related crime, and pan-ethnic
trends. They also explore the myth of "model minorities" and the
contemporary resurgence of anti-immigrant feelings. A unique
contribution to the field of immigration studies, this volume
considers the full racial and ethnic unfolding of the United States
in its historical context.
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