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The Oxford Handbook of American Immigration and Ethnicity (Hardcover)
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The Oxford Handbook of American Immigration and Ethnicity (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Handbooks
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Scholarship on immigration to America is a coin with two sides: how
did America change immigrants, and how did they change America?
Were the immigrants uprooted from their ancestral homes, leaving
all 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 explores how Americans think of themselves and how
science, religion, period of migration, gender, education,
politics, and occupational mobility shape both this image and
American life. Since the 1965 Immigration Act opened the gates to
newer groups, historical writing on immigration and ethnicity has
evolved over the years to include numerous immigrant sources and to
provide trenchant analyses of American immigration and ethnicity.
For the first time, this handbook brings together thirty leading
scholars in the field to make sense of all the themes,
methodologies, and trends that characterize the debate on American
immigration. They examine a wide-range of topics, including
pan-ethnicity, whiteness, intermarriage, bilingualism, religion,
museum ethnic displays, naturalization, regional mobility, census
categorization, immigration legislation and its reception,
ethnicity-related crime and gang formation. The Oxford Handbook of
American Immigration and Ethnicity explores the idea of
assimilation in a multicultural society showing how deeply
pan-ethnicity changed American identity over the time.
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