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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorImpossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America
Mae M. Ngai · 400 pages
Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans
Ronald Takaki · 570 pages
Ronald Takaki, an expert in Asian American history and a former Ethnic Studies professor at Berkeley, tells the story of immigrants from Asia from the spike of immigration in the mid 1800s to the restrictions placed in the late 1800s to modern day immigration. An engaging and vital overview of the field.
Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America
Juan Gonzalez · 369 pages
Includes chapters on Puerto Ricans, Mexicans, Cubans, Dominicans, Central Americans in general, Colombians, and Panamanians.
Triangle: The Fire That Changed America
David von Drehle · 352 pages
Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis
Jonathan Blitzer · 544 pages
Reflections on the Revolution In Europe: Immigration, Islam, and the West
Christopher Caldwell · 384 pages
Can you have the same Europe with different people in it? The answer, says Christopher Caldwell, is no.Europe has undergone a demographic revolution it never expected. A half century of mass immigration has failed to produce anything resembling an American-style melting pot. By overestimating its need for immigrant labor and underestimating the culture-shaping potential of religion, Europe has tra
97 Orchard: An Edible History of Five Immigrant Families in One New York Tenement
Jane Ziegelman · 253 pages
In 97 Orchard, Jane Ziegelman explores the culinary life that was the heart and soul of New York's Lower East Side around the turn of the twentieth century—a city within a city, where Germans, Irish, Italians, and Eastern European Jews attempted to forge a new life. Through the experiences of five families, all of them residents of 97 Orchard Street, she takes readers on a vivid and unforgettable
Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race
Matthew Frye Jacobson · 345 pages
America's racial odyssey is the subject of this work of historical imagination. Matthew Frye Jacobson argues that race resides not in nature but in the contingencies of politics and culture. In ever-changing racial categories we glimpse the competing theories of history and collective destiny by which power has been organized and contested in the United States. Capturing the excitement of the new
Arrival City: The Final Migration and Our Next World
Doug Saunders · 368 pages
Five Points: The Nineteenth-Century New York City Neighborhood That Invented Tap Dance, Stole Elections and Became the World's Most Notorious Slum
Tyler Anbinder · 532 pages
""The very letters of the two words seem, as they are written, to redden with the blood-stains of unavenged crime. There is Murder in every syllable, and Want, Misery and Pestilence take startling form and crowd upon the imagination as the pen traces the words." So wrote a reporter about Five Points, the most infamous neighborhood in nineteenth-century America, the place where "slumming" was inven
How the Irish Became White
Noel Ignatiev · 274 pages
How the Irish Became White explodes a number of myths surrounding race in our society. Focusing on how the Irish were assimilated as "whites" in America, Noel Ignatiev uncovers the roots of conflict between Irish Americans and African Americans and draws a powerful connection between Irish "success" in nineteenth-century American society and their embrace of white supremacy. - Jacket flap.
The People Smuggler: The True Story Of Ali Al Jenabi, The 'Oskar Schindler Of Asia'
Robin De Crespigny · 351 pages
Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America
James Webb · 369 pages
"In his first work of nonfiction, James Webb tells the epic story of the Scots-Irish, a people whose lives and worldview were dictated by resistance, conflict, and struggle, and who, in turn, profoundly influenced the social, political, and cultural landscape of America from its beginnings through the present day." "Born Fighting is the first book to chronicle the full journey of this remarkable c
An African American and Latinx History of the United States
Paul Ortiz · 296 pages
Exodus: Immigration and Multiculturalism in the 21st Century
Paul Collier · 318 pages
In Exodus, Paul Collier, the world-renowned economist and bestselling author of The Bottom Billion, clearly and concisely lays out the effects of encouraging or restricting migration. Drawing on original research and case studies, he explores this volatile issue from three perspectives: that of the migrants tmeselves, that of the people they leave behind, and that of the host societies where they
The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam
Douglas Murray · 363 pages
This book is not only an analysis of demographic and political realities in Europe, but also an eyewitness account of a continent in self-destruct mode. It includes reporting from across the entire continent, from the places where migrants land to the places they end up, from the people who appear to welcome them in to the places which cannot accept them.
Mexifornia: A State of Becoming
Victor Davis Hanson · 150 pages
Massive illegal immigration from Mexico into California, Victor Davis Hanson writes, "coupled with a loss of confidence in the old melting pot model of transforming newcomers into Americans, is changing the very nature of state. Yet we Californians have been inadequate in meeting this challenge, both failing to control our borders with Mexico and to integrate the new alien population into our main
Home of the Brave
Edited by Dave Isay; adapted by Sarah Thomson; illustrated by Sharon De La Cruz;introduction by Jason Reynolds
GI Brides
Duncan Barrett, Nuala Calvi · 361 pages
"Worn down by years of war and hardship, girls like Sylvia, Margaret, and Gwendolyn were thrilled when American GI's arrived in Britain with their exotic accents, handsome uniforms and aura of Hollywood glamor. Others, like Rae, who distrusted the Yanks, were eventually won over by their easy charm. So when VE Day finally came, for the 70,000 women who'd become GI brides, it was tinged with sadnes
Spare Parts: Four Undocumented Teenagers, One Ugly Robot, and the Battle for the American Dream
Joshua Davis · 240 pages
Haven: The Dramatic Story of 1,000 World War II Refugees and How They Came to America
Ruth Gruber · 334 pages
Ruth Gruber, special assistant to Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes, tells about her experiences carrying out a mission to bring one thousand Jewish and Christian refugees from Italy in 1944, and discusses her efforts on their behalf once they arrived in America.