The Oxford Handbook of American Immigration and Ethnicity

The Oxford Handbook of American Immigration and Ethnicity brings together thirty leading scholars 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. By exploring the idea of assimilation in a multicultural society, this Handbook shows 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: 1875 to the Present
- David M. Reimers
- Chapter 2. European Migrations
- Dirk Hoerder
- Chapter 3. Asian Immigration
- Madeline Y. Hsu
- 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
- Donna R. Gabaccia
- Chapter 7. Protecting America's Borders and the Undocumented Immigrant Dilemma
- David G. 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. Whiteness and Race
- David R. Roediger
- Chapter 12. Race and U.S. Panethnic Formation
- Yen Le Espiritu
- Chapter 13. Intermarriage and the Creation of a New American
- Allison Varzally
- Chapter 14. Immigration, Medical Regulation, and Eugenics
- Wendy Kline
- Chapter 15. The World of the Immigrant Worker
- James R. Barrett
- Chapter 16. Neighborhoods, Immigrants, and Ethnic Americans
- Amanda I. Seligman
- Chapter 17. Machine Bosses, Reformers, and the Politics of Ethnic Minority Incorporation
- Steven P. Erie and Vladimir Kogan
- Chapter 18. Immigration, Ethnicity, Race and Organized Crime
- Will Cooley
- Chapter 19. The Myth of Ethnic Success: Old Wine in New Bottles
- 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. Ethnicity, Race, and Religion beyond Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish Whites
- R. Stephen Warner
- Chapter 25. Immigration, Race, and Ethnicity in American Film
- Steven Alan Carr
- Chapter 26. Language Retention/Language Shift, "English Only," and Multilingualism in teh Unites States
- Joshua A. 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 J. Bukowczyk
- Index