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Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America
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Vincent J. Cannato · 487 pages
For most of New York's early history, Ellis Island had been an obscure little island that barely held itself above high tide. Today the small island stands alongside Plymouth Rock in our nation's founding mythology as the place where many of our ancestors first touched American soil. Ellis Island's heyday—from 1892 to 1924—coincided with one of the greatest mass movements of individuals the world
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.
Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis
Jonathan Blitzer · 544 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.
Triangle: The Fire That Changed America
David von Drehle · 352 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
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
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
Arrival City: The Final Migration and Our Next World
Doug Saunders · 368 pages
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.
An African American and Latinx History of the United States
Paul Ortiz · 296 pages
The New Odyssey: The Story of Europe's Refugee Crisis
Patrick Kingsley · 368 pages
"In the humane tradition of Katherine Boo's Behind the Beautiful Forevers comes a searing account of the international refugee crisis, "--Amazon.com. "On the day of his son's fourteenth birthday, Hashem al-Souki lay somewhere in the Mediterranean, crammed in a wooden dinghy. His family was relatively safe--at least for the time being--in Egypt, where they had only just settled after fleeing their
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
Occupied America
Rodolfo Acuña, Rodolfo Acuna · 428 pages
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.
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
The People Smuggler: The True Story Of Ali Al Jenabi, The 'Oskar Schindler Of Asia'
Robin De Crespigny · 351 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
Unbuild Walls: Why Immigrant Justice Needs Abolition
Silky Shah · 280 pages
Home of the Brave
Edited by Dave Isay; adapted by Sarah Thomson; illustrated by Sharon De La Cruz;introduction by Jason Reynolds
Spare Parts: Four Undocumented Teenagers, One Ugly Robot, and the Battle for the American Dream
Joshua Davis · 240 pages
The Death of Josseline: Immigration Stories from the Arizona-Mexico Borderlands
Margaret Regan · 221 pages