Oxford Handbook of American Immigration and Ethnicity

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.

Ronald H. Bayor is Emeritus Professor of History at Georgia Tech, a former president of the Immigration and Ethnic History Society, and founding editor of the Journal of American Ethnic History. His most recent book is Encountering Ellis Island: How European Immigrants Entered America.

Contents
List of Contributors
Introduction: The Making of America
Ronald H. Bayor
Chapter 1. The Impact of Immigration Legislation in 1882, 1924, 1952, 1965, 1986, 1990 and Present Day Legislative Discussions
David Reimers
Chapter 2. European Migrations
Dirk Hoerder
Chapter 3. Asian Immigration
Hsu, Madeline Y.
Chapter 4. Latino Immigration
María Cristina García
Chapter 5. African American Migration from the Colonial Era to the Present
Joe W. Trotter
Chapter 6. Emancipation and Exploitation in Immigrant Women's Lives
Gabaccia, Donna R.
Chapter 7. Protecting America's Borders and the Undocumented Immigrant Dilemma
David Gutierrez
Chapter 8. Acceptance, Rejection,and America's Split Personality
Gary Gerstle
Chapter 9. Race and Citizenship
Gregory T. Carter
Chapter 10. Concepts of Ethnic/Racial Identity and Assimilation in the United States
Richard Alba
Chapter 11. The Role of "Whiteness" in Ethnic History
David Roediger
Chapter 12. Pan-Ethnic Identities
Yen Le Espiritu
Chapter 13. Intermarriage and the Creation of a New American
Allison Varzally
Chapter 14. Health, Ethnicity, Eugenics and Genetics in the United States
Wendy Kline
Chapter 15. The World of the Immigrant Worker
James Barrett
Chapter 16. Neighborhoods, Immigrants, and Ethnic Americans
Amanda I. Seligman
Chapter 17. The Ethnic Political Impact of Boss Tweed, Fiorello La Guardia, Richard J. Daley, and a Political Leader from a Recent Group
Steven Erie and Vladimir Kogan
Chapter 18. Immigration, Ethnicity, Race and Organized Crime
Will Cooley
Chapter 19. Ethnicity/Race and Educational Mobility in the United States
Stephen Steinberg
Chapter 20. Immigration and Ethnic Diversity in the South, 1980-2010
Mary E. Odem
Chapter 21. Allegiance, Dual Citizenship, and the Ethnic Influence on U.S. Foreign Policy
David Brundage
Chapter 22. Historians and Sociologists Debate Transnationalism
Peter Kivisto
Chapter 23. Written Forms of Communication from Immigrant Letters to Instant Messaging
Suzanne M. Sinke
Chapter 24. Race and Religion: Beyond Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish Whites
R. Stephen Warner
Chapter 25. Immigration, Race, and Ethnicity in American Film
Steven Carr
Chapter 26. Language Retention, English Only, and Bilingualism
Joshua Fishman
Chapter 27. Melting Pots, Salad Bowls, Ethnic Museums, and American Identity
Steven Conn
Chapter 28. New Approaches in the Teaching of Immigration and Ethnic History in the United States
John Bukowczyk
Index