12. April 21: Immigration and Borders
Readings:
Mae M. Ngai, The Impossible Subject: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America
Bender, Rethinking American History in a Global Age, 195-236
James Barrett and David Roediger, “In Between Peoples: Race, Nationality and the ‘New
Immigrant’ Working Class,” Journal of American Ethnic History, 16 (1997): 3-44.
Supplemental Readings:
Aristide R. Zolberg, A Nation by Design: Immigration Policy in the Fashioning of America, 2006
Rich - John Bodnar, The transplanted : a history of immigrants in urban America,1985
Alan Kraut, Silent travelers: germs, genes, and the "immigrant menace", 1994
Susan A. Glenn, Daughters of the Shtetl : life and labor in the immigrant generation, 1990.
John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of American Nativism, 1860-1925
Adam A - Erika Lee, At America’s Gates
Matthew Jacobson, Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race
Daniels, Roger. Guarding the Door: American Immigration Policy and Immigrants Since 1882.
More Resources:
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