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Table of Contents Preface 1. Immigration, Race, Ethnicity, Colonialism Beyond Ellis Island¿How Not to Think about Immigration History Not Assimilation but Race Making The Immigrant Assimilation Model The Transnational Diasporic Model The Panethnic Formation Model Race vs. Ethnicity: The Difference, and the Difference It Makes Ethnic Formation Processes Colonialism and Race Making Words Matter Some Terms the Reader May Want to Think about Differently An Idea that May be New 2. Colliding Peoples in Eastern North America, 1600-1780 In the Beginning There Were Indians Variety Origins There Goes the Neighborhood: European Incursion and ¿Settlement¿ Spanish, French, and Dutch Encounter Native Peoples English Immigrants Encounter Native Peoples Resistance, Conflict, Genocide A Mixed Multitude: European Migrants English Immigrants Immigration Policy under the British Other Europeans Indenture From English to American Out of Africa To Become a Slave Dimensions and Effects How ¿Black¿ and ¿Slave¿ Came to Mean the Same Thing Variations on a Theme From Igbo and Bambara to Negro Merging Peoples, Blending Cultures The End of an Age Identity: Black, White, and Red Assimilation 3. An Anglo-American Republic? Racial Citizenship, 1760-1860 Slavery and Anti-Slavery in the Era of the American Revolution Thinking about Freedom, and Not Three-fifths of a Person Partly-Free People of Color and One Drop of Blood Africans and Indians Free White Persons: Defining Membership Playing Indian: White Appropriations of Native American Symbols and Identities European Immigrants Beginnings of US Immigration Policy Immigration, but Not ¿Old¿ or ¿New¿ British Germans Peasants Into City People: The Famine Irish Sephardim and German Jews Issues in European Migration Individual Choice or Embedded in a Web of Industrial Capital? Recruitment and Chain Migration Changes in Transportation Technology and Travel Conditions Nativism Were the Irish Ever Not White? Making a White Race 4. The Border Crossed Us¿Euro-Americans Take the Continent, 1830-1900 US Colonial Expansion Across North America Making Empire, Making Race: Manifest Destiny and Westward Expansion Indian Deportation to the West Resistance and Genocide The Remnant: Reservation Indians Disappearing Peoples Native American Panethnic Formation Taking the Mexican Northlands Forget the Alamo: Taking Texas for Slavery Expanding Aggression Incorporating Mexico¿s People, and Not Making Race in California Racial Replacement East from Asia Chinese Immigrants The Anti-Chinese Movement Slave and Citizen Colonialism and Race Making 5. The Great Wave, 1870-1930 From New Sources and Old, to America and Back Still Coming from Northwest Europe New Sources of Workers in Southern Europe From Eastern Europe, Too Northeast Europeans Making a Multiethnic Working Class in the West Chinese Japanese Mexicans Filipinos and Other Asians Expunging Native Peoples Interlocking Discriminations 6. Cementing Hierarchy: Issues and Interpretations, 1870-1930 How They Lived and Worked The Immigrant Working Class Not All Were Working Class Leading the Poor Gender and migration Angles of Entry Making Jim Crow in the South Making Racial and Ethnic Hierarchy in the North Whiteness of Several Colors Beginnings of Black Migration Empire and Race-Making Making War on Our Little Brown Brothers Queen Lili`uokalani Loses Her Country Law, Race, and Immigration Race and Gender Before the Law Legal Whiteness Racialist Pseudoscience and Its Offspring Pseudoscience Becomes Popular Knowledge Perfecting Humans Anti-Immigrant Movements The Anti-Japanese Movement The Americanization Campaign The Campaign for Immigration Restriction Interpretive Issues Orientalism Ethnicity on Display: Ethnic Festivals, World¿s Fairs, and Human Zoos Racializing Religion: Jews as White and Not 7. White People¿s America, 1924-1965 Recruiting citizens Second Generations and Third Recruiting Guest Workers Mexicans Filipinos and Puerto Ricans Indians or Citizens? World War II Rooting Out the Zoot Neither an Accident, Nor a Mistake European Refugees and Displaced Persons Cracks in White Hegemony The Cold War: Competing for the World¿s Peoples The Civil Rights Movement Racial Fairness and the Immigration Act of 1965 8. New Migrants from New Places, Since 1965 Some Migrants We Know From Asia Fleeing War in Vietnam and Mainland Southeast Asia Draining Brains from the Philippines From Korea From South Asia From China A Model Minority? From the Americas Perhaps a Model Minority: Migrants from Mexico Migrants or Exiles? From Cuba From Other Parts of Latin America and the Caribbean From Europe From Africa Continuing Involvements Abroad 9. Redefining Membership amid Multiplicity, Since 1965 Immigration Reform, Again and Again Panethnic Power The Chicano Movement Asian American Panethnicity Native American Political and Cultural Resurgence African Americans After Civil Rights Disgruntled White People Not the KKK: White Ethnic Movements Immigrant Bashing Fighting Affirmative Action New Issues in a New Era Changes in Racial Etiquette Multiculturalism The Multiracial Movement Forever Foreigners: Asians and Arabs Epilogue: Future Uncertain Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century Projecting the Future Immigration Issues Is the US the Immigrant Nation? Unauthorized Immigrants What Do Immigrants Cost? Homeland Insecurity English Only? Reprise Appendices
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
United States -- Emigration and immigration -- History.
United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Government policy.
Discrimination -- United States.