Drawing on the insights of ethnic studies and the issues raised by new immigration in the last third of the twentieth century, Almost All Aliens presents a major new interpretation of a fundamental issue in US history and public policy.
Drawing on the insights of ethnic studies and the issues raised by new immigration in the last third of the twentieth century, Almost All Aliens presents a major new interpretation of a fundamental issue in US history and public policy.
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Autorenporträt
Paul Spickard is Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is co-author of Revealing the Sacred in Asian and Pacific America (Routledge 2003) and editor of Race and Nation: Ethnic Systems in the Modern World (Routledge 2004).
Inhaltsangabe
1. Immigration, Race, Ethnicity, Colonialism 2. Colliding Peoples in Eastern North America, 1600-1780 3. An Anglo-American Republic? Racial Citizenship, 1760-1860 4. The Border Crossed Us-Euro-Americans Take the Continent, 1830-1900 5. The Great Wave, 1870-1924 6. Cementing Hierarchy: Issues and Interpretations 7. White People's America, 1924-1965 8. Redefining Membership amid Multiplicity, 1965-2000. Epilogue: Future Uncertain