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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... groups have rarely become more permeable.29 WHO'S IN ? FINAL OBSERVATIONS The principal objective of this study is not only to move the immigrants ' role in the western economy to center stage but to move their broader experi- ences ...
... groups arrived or expanded their neighborhoods ( thereby encroaching on others ) , and still others resettled further westward ( to the more affluent Los Feliz area or to the newly established Beverly Hills , for example ) , or over ...
... GROUPS IN THE WEST , 1920 Germans English Canadians Italians Mexicans Scandinavians English , Welsh , Scots Asians ( Japanese , Chinese , Koreans ) French ( including French Basques ) Czechs Dutch In top 5 groups in all western states ...
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Defining ThemesThe West Westerners | 1 |
Western Immigrant Experiences | 23 |
Laying the Groundwork | 35 |
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