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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... legislation detailing all the categories of exclud- able persons for physical , mental , moral , political , and economic reasons , such as epileptics and those with “ loathsome ” diseases ; persons having had " attacks of insanity ...
... legislation for immi- grant quotas based on his commission's report a decade earlier , the tide was rap- idly ... legislation , Higham's assessment still carries considerable weight . One cannot minimize what else this 1921 legislation ...
... legislation became the framework within which we must analyze many of the changes at that time affecting eth- nic groups in the West and their impact on it . Most , if not all , non - Western Hemisphere ethnic groups would be affected ...
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Defining ThemesThe West Westerners | 1 |
Western Immigrant Experiences | 23 |
Laying the Groundwork | 35 |
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