Immigration and American Diversity: A Social and Cultural History

Preface and Acknowledgments.

Introduction.

Student Exercise: American Diversity – and Me; American Diversity – and You.

1. Creating America; Creating Americans.

2. Americans and Aliens, 1750–1835.

3. Emigrants and Regional Strife, 1820–1860.

Student Exercise: Catholic Nuns Testify in Court after the Burning of the Charlestown Convent.

4. Redefining the Nation, 1850–1900.

Student Exercise: Can a Negro be a Nativist?.

5. Immigrants in a Nativist America, 1890-1920.

Student Exercise, Determining the Geographic Origins of Immigrants at Century's Turn.

6. Migrants, Immigrants, and Scientific Racism, 1900-1945.

7. The Postwar USA: Nation of Immigrants or Multicultural Nation?.

Student Exercise: Ethnicity, Authors, and their Books.

8. Today's Immigrants; Tomorrow's Nation.

Student Exercise: This Week's Headlines: An Oral Report on Immigration's Impact on Local Communities.

Conclusion.

Notes.

Index.