| Descript |
xiv, 390 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Notes |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : immigration, race, and ethnicity in the United States : social constructions and social relations in historical and contemporary perspective / Nancy Foner and George M. Fredrickson -- Ch. 1. Conceptual confusions and divides : race, ethnicity, and the study of immigration / Stephen Cornell and Douglas Hartmann -- Ch. 2. Ethnicity : an American genealogy / Victoria Hattam -- Ch. 3. amplitude of ethnic history : an American story / John Higham -- Ch. 4. great migration, African Americans, and immigrants in the industrial city / Joe W. Trotter -- Ch. 5. Immigration and the social construction of otherness : "underclass" stigma and intergroup relations / Gerald Jaynes -- Ch. 6. American gatekeeping : race and immigration law in the twentieth century / Erika Lee -- Ch. 7. census counts, the census classifies / Kenneth Prewitt -- Ch. 8. Making new immigrants "inbetween" : Irish hosts and white panethnicity, 1890 to 1930 / David Roediger and James Barrett -- Ch. 9. formation of Latino and Latina panethnic identities / Jose Itzigsohn -- Ch. 10. Asian American panethnicity : contemporary national and transnational possibilities / Yen Le Espiritu -- Ch. 11. Old and new landscapes of diversity : the residential patterns of immigrant minorities / Richard Alba and Nancy Denton -- Ch. 12. Intermarriage then and now : race, generation, and the changing meaning of marriage / Joel Perlmann and Mary C. Waters -- Ch. 13. Race, assimilation, and "second generations," past and present / Philip Kasinitz -- Ch. 14. Black-Asian conflict? / John Lie -- Ch. 15. Immigrant entrepreneurs and customers throughout the twentieth century / Steven J. Gold -- Ch. 16. Straddling the color line : the legal construction of Hispanic identity in Texas / Neil Foley -- Ch. 17. Black and brown in Compton : demographic change, suburban decline, and intergroup relations in a South Central Los Angeles community, 1950 to 2000 / Albert M. Camarillo. |
| Summary |
"In Not Just Black and White, editors Nancy Foner and George M. Fredrickson bring together a group of social scientists and historians to consider the relationship between immigration and the ways in which concepts of race and ethnicity have evolved in the United States from the end of the nineteenth century to the present."--BOOK JACKET. |
| Subject |
United States -- Emigration and immigration.
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United States -- Race relations.
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Immigrants -- United States.
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Ethnicity -- United States.
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United States -- Ethnic relations.
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| Alt Author |
Foner, Nancy, 1945-
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Fredrickson, George M., 1934-
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| ISBN |
0871542595 |
| OCLC# |
ocm53369560 |
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