From All Points: America's Immigrant West, 1870s-1952Indiana University Press, 11 mai 2007 - 624 pagini At a time when immigration policy is the subject of heated debate, this book makes clear that the true wealth of America is in the diversity of its peoples. By the end of the 20th century the American West was home to nearly half of America's immigrant population, including Asians and Armenians, Germans and Greeks, Mexicans, Italians, Swedes, Basques, and others. This book tells their rich and complex story—of adaptation and isolation, maintaining and mixing traditions, and an ongoing ebb and flow of movement, assimilation, and replenishment. These immigrants and their children built communities, added to the region's culture, and contended with discrimination and the lure of Americanization. The mark of the outsider, the alien, the nonwhite passed from group to group, even as the complexion of the region changed. The region welcomed, then excluded, immigrants, in restless waves of need and nativism that continue to this day. |
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... became an immensely successful contractor of major construc- tion projects throughout the Northwest . After she raised three children , Inga became increasingly active in the Norwegian American community in true transnational fashion ...
... became a major vineyard in northern California , Asti , recruiting Italian - Swiss workers and cre- ating a thoroughly Italian environment in that “ Italian - Swiss Colony . ” The Gallo , Rossi , Martini , Petri , Guasti , and Mondavi ...
... became the first woman and the first Chinese person to chair a university sociology department ( Roosevelt Uni- versity ) , and a well - respected scholar on Chinese Americans . Wong , born in San Francisco in 1922 , graduated from ...
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Defining ThemesThe West Westerners | 1 |
Western Immigrant Experiences | 23 |
Laying the Groundwork | 35 |
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