Major Problems in American Immigration History
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Designed to encourage critical thinking about history, the MAJOR PROBLEMS IN AMERICAN HISTORY series introduces readers to both primary sources and analytical essays on important topics in American history. The collection of essays and documents in MAJOR PROBLEMS IN AMERICAN IMMIGRATION HISTORY, International Edition explores themes such as the political and economic forces that cause immigration; the alienation and uprootedness that often follow relocation; and the difficult questions of citizenship and assimilation. This text presents a carefully selected group of readings organized to allow readers to evaluate primary sources, test the interpretations of distinguished historians, and draw their own conclusions. Each chapter includes introductions, source notes, and suggested readings.
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Note: Each chapter concludes with Further Reading.
INTRODUCTION.
Mae Ngai, A short history of immigration history.
1. APPROACHES TO IMMIGRATION (AND ETHNIC) HISTORY.
Essays.
Oscar Handlin, The Uprooted, 1951. John Bodnar, The Transplanted , 1985. Kathleen Conzen et al. The Invention of Ethnicity in the US, 1991. Donna Gabaccia, Immigrant Women, Nowhere at Home, 1991. George Sanchez, Race, Colonialism and Culture in Recent Immigration History, 1999. Matthew Jacobson, More 'Trans', Less 'National', 2006.
2. SERVANTS, SETTLERS, AND SLAVES IN EARLY AMERICA.
Documents.
Alonso Ortiz's letter to his Wife, Mexico City, 1574. Account of the Pueblo Revolt of 1680 by New Mexico's Governor. Marie de l'Incarnation, Letter to her son, 1652. Elizabeth Sprigs, Letter to Mr. John in White Cross Street (London), 1756. William Byrd II, land speculator, promotes immigration, 1736. Slaves endure the middle passage, 1693. Memoir of the Life of Job 1734.
Essays.
Karen O. Kupperman, International at the Creation. Alison Games, Adaptation and Survival.
3. CITIZENSHIP AND MIGRATION BEFORE THE CIVIL WAR.
Documents.
Articles of Confederation and the Constitution--sections on citizenship. Naturalization Act of 1790. An Act Concerning Aliens, 1798. Act for the Betterment and Settlement and Relief of the Poor, New York 1788. Missouri Constitution of 1820. Moore v. People, 1852.
Essays.
Gerald Neuman, The Open Borders Myth. William Novak, The Legal Transformation of Citizenship in Nineteenth Century America.
4. EUROPEAN MIGRATION AND NATIONAL EXPANSION IN THE EARLY 19 CENTURY.
Documents.
Swedish women and men observe the freedom and opportunity in America 1841-48. German American family changes its assessment of American life, 1850-1883. Robert Whyte explains the Irish Migration following the Potato Famine,1847. Irish Ballads "Paddy on the Canal"and "Poor Pat Must Emigrate." Samuel Morse Enumerates the dangers of the Roman Catholic Immigrant, 1835. Political cartoon. Emigrant runners protest opening of Castle Garden 1855.
Essays.
Kerby Miller, Irish Immigrants who Perceive America as Exile. Kathleen Conzen, German Catholic Immigrants who Make their Own in America.
5. THE SOUTHWEST BORDERLANDS IN THE EIGHTEENTH AND NINETEENTH CENTURIES.
Documents.
Excerpt from diary of (Mexican) General Manuel de Mier y Teran, on settlement of foreigners in Texas, 1829. Address of SF Austin, on Texas revolution, 1836. John Sulllivan on Manifest Destiny, 1839. Excerpts from Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo 1848. Indian incursions, report to House Committee on Indian Affairs, 1850. Ballad of Gregorio Cortez. Maps of continental United States before and after US-Mexico War.
Essays.
James F. Brooks, This Evil Extends Especially ... to the Feminine Sex: Negotiating Captivity in the New Mexico Borderlands. David Montejano, The Rivalship of Peace.
6. NATIONAL CITIZENSHIP AND FEDERAL REGULATION OF IMMIGRATION.
Documents.
Fourteenth Amendment, Sec. 1. Naturalization Act of 1870. United States v. Wong Kim Ark, 1898. Yick Wo v. Hopkins, 1886. Excerpt, Chinese exclusion case, 1889. Immigration Act of 1917. Photographs from Ellis Island and Angel Island. Interview with Barbara Barondess, Ellis Island oral history project. Chinese poetry carved on walls of Angel Island.
Essays.
Aristide Zolberg, The Great Wall Against China. Linda Bosniak, Divided Citizenships.
7. IMMIGRATION DURING THE ERA OF INDUSTRIALIZATION AND URBANIZATION.
Documents.
Slovenian recounts varying assessments of America, 1909. Upton Sinclar, The Jungle, 1906. Portrait of Sweatshop Labor in NYC, 1895. Two Italian Americans recount the 1912 Lawrence Mass strike. Three Chinese Americans recall Life and Labor in their Ethnic Community 1897-1917. John Martin's testimony to Congress on 1919 steel strike, We do not Understand the Foreigners. Jane Addams, The Settlement as a Factor in the Labor Movement. Nationality Map of Hull House neighborhood.
Essays.
James R. Barrett, Work and Community in the Jungle. Mary Lui, The Chinatown Trunk Mystery.
8. COLONIALISM AND MIGRATION.
Documents.
Alfred Beveridge advocates imperialism 1898. Joseph Crooker, The Menace to America, 1900. Victor Clark, Mexican Labor in the US, 1908. Porto Rican Labor for the Panama Canal, 1904. Porto Ricans Ungrateful, 1921. Petition from Filipino asparagus workers, California, 1928. Labor contract - Chinese workers and Hawaii Sugar planters association, 1870. On Higher Wages for Japanese Laborers (Hawaii), 1909. Insular cases, 1901.
Essays.
Christina Burnett and Burke Marshall, Foreign in a Domestic Sense. Evelyn Nakano Glenn, Japanese and Haoles in Hawaii.
9. IMMIGRANT INCORPORATION, IDENTITY, AND NATIVISM IN EARLY 20 CENTURY.
Documents.
Samuel Gompers Racializes Chinese American Labor, 1908. Asiatic Exclusion League Argues that Asians cannot be Assimilated, 1911. Fu Chi Hao reprimands Americans for Anti-Chinese attitudes, 1907. Racialized Description of Immigrants from Europe, 1915. Sociologist Portrays the Racial Dimensions of Immigrants from Europe, 1914. Theodore Roosevelt Advocates 'Americanism, 1915. Randolph Bourne Promotes cultural pluralism, 1916. Horace Kallen, Democracy versus the Melting Pot, 1915.
Essays.
James Barrett and David Roediger, In between peoples: Race, nationality and the 'new' immigrant working class. John Higham, Strangers in the Land.
10. THE TURN TO RESTRICTION.
Documents.
Immigration Act of 1924 . List of countries with assigned national origins quotas, 1924. Thind v. United States, 1923. United States v. Ozawa, 1922 . Immigration official testifies on the Border Patrol, 1930. Congressman John Box objects to Mexican Immigrants. Senator Clancy Objects to Johnson Immigration bill, 1924. LULAC founding constitution, 1929. Mexican responses to US army border raids, 1916.
Essays.
Mae Ngai, Architecture of Race in American Immigration Law. David Gutierrez, Shifting Politics of Ethnicity in the Interwar Period.
11. INCLUSION AND EXCLUSION DURING DEPRESSION AND WAR.
Documents.
Robert McLean, The Mexican Retur, 1932. Deportations Continue, 1931. Louis Sarmiento, A Call to Action, 1935. Dominic Del Turco remembers labor organizing, 1934. Executive Order 9066. Mitsuye Yamada, The Question of Loyalty, 1998. Mine Okubo, illustrations of camp life. Korematsu v. United States, 1944 . The Zoot Suit riots. Survey on Mexican American workers, US Dept of Labor, 1939. Louis Adamic, The Crisis is an Opportunity, 1940. FDR's apology issued with Repeal of Chinese exclusion, 1943.
Essays.
Gary Gerstle, American Crucible. Alice Yang Murray, The History of Military Necessity.
12. IMMIGRATION REFORM AND ETHNIC POLITICS IN THE ERA OF CIVIL RIGHTS AND THE COLD WAR.
Documents.
An eminent sociologist [Herberg] analyzes the American Way of Life, 1951. Oscar Handlin, The Immigration Fight has only Begun. Oscar Lewis, La Vida 1966. Piri Thomas, Down these Mean Streets 1967. John F. Kennedy, A Nation of Immigrants 1963. Photograph, LBJ signing Immigration Act of 1965 at Statue of Liberty. Cesar Chavez, The Plan of Delano 1965.
Essays.
Mae Ngai, The Unlovely Residue of Outworn Prejudice. Lorrin Thomas, Representing the Puerto Rican Problem.
13. IMMIGRANTS IN THE POST-INDUSTRIAL AGE.
Documents.
Ronald Reagan's speech on why the IRCA is an important piece of legislation (1986). Ruben Martinez describes the fight against Proposition 187. Justice for Janitors, 1990. Asian immigrants transplant religious institutions, 1994. Perla Rigor compares life as a nurse in the Philippines and America 1987. Sarita Sarvate Criticizes the brain drain from the third world, 2000. Santiago Maldnado details the lives of undocumented immigrants in Texas, 1994.. Caribbean American observes Life in NYC, 1971-76. Plan of Atzlan, 1969.
Essays.
Nancy Foner, Transnational Ties. Carolyn Wong, Ethnic Advocacy and Regulation.
14. REFUGEES AND ASYLEES.
Documents.
Refugee Act of 1980. A Congressman from California debates provisions of the 1980 Refugee Act, 1981. Voice of a Sudanese Refugee. Haitian refugees flee 1991 coup. A Cuban flees to the US, 1979. A Hmong's story of escape from Laos, 1975. "Fugees" soccer team, Clarkson GA, 2007.
Essays.
Aiwha Ong, Buddha is Hiding. Carl Bon Tempo, Americans at the Gate.
15. CHALLENGES FOR THE 21 CENTURY.
Documents.
A Latino and an African American debate construction of race, 1996. Census 2000 brief, "overview of race and Hispanic origin.". Remittance Senders and Receivers, 2003. Oral history of Muslim American after 9/11. Statement from American Arab anti-Discrimination Commission, 2001. Minutemen Civil Defense Corps, "Border Security First, Border Security Only, Border Security Now" 2006. Joseph Carens, The case for amnesty, 2007. Officials held truth of immigrant deaths in jail. United States v. Arizona (2010). Feisal Abdul Raul, Building on Faith.
Essays.
Lynn Stephen, Mexicans in California and Oregon. Leti Volpp, The Citizen and the Terrorist.
INTRODUCTION.
Mae Ngai, A short history of immigration history.
1. APPROACHES TO IMMIGRATION (AND ETHNIC) HISTORY.
Essays.
Oscar Handlin, The Uprooted, 1951. John Bodnar, The Transplanted , 1985. Kathleen Conzen et al. The Invention of Ethnicity in the US, 1991. Donna Gabaccia, Immigrant Women, Nowhere at Home, 1991. George Sanchez, Race, Colonialism and Culture in Recent Immigration History, 1999. Matthew Jacobson, More 'Trans', Less 'National', 2006.
2. SERVANTS, SETTLERS, AND SLAVES IN EARLY AMERICA.
Documents.
Alonso Ortiz's letter to his Wife, Mexico City, 1574. Account of the Pueblo Revolt of 1680 by New Mexico's Governor. Marie de l'Incarnation, Letter to her son, 1652. Elizabeth Sprigs, Letter to Mr. John in White Cross Street (London), 1756. William Byrd II, land speculator, promotes immigration, 1736. Slaves endure the middle passage, 1693. Memoir of the Life of Job 1734.
Essays.
Karen O. Kupperman, International at the Creation. Alison Games, Adaptation and Survival.
3. CITIZENSHIP AND MIGRATION BEFORE THE CIVIL WAR.
Documents.
Articles of Confederation and the Constitution--sections on citizenship. Naturalization Act of 1790. An Act Concerning Aliens, 1798. Act for the Betterment and Settlement and Relief of the Poor, New York 1788. Missouri Constitution of 1820. Moore v. People, 1852.
Essays.
Gerald Neuman, The Open Borders Myth. William Novak, The Legal Transformation of Citizenship in Nineteenth Century America.
4. EUROPEAN MIGRATION AND NATIONAL EXPANSION IN THE EARLY 19 CENTURY.
Documents.
Swedish women and men observe the freedom and opportunity in America 1841-48. German American family changes its assessment of American life, 1850-1883. Robert Whyte explains the Irish Migration following the Potato Famine,1847. Irish Ballads "Paddy on the Canal"and "Poor Pat Must Emigrate." Samuel Morse Enumerates the dangers of the Roman Catholic Immigrant, 1835. Political cartoon. Emigrant runners protest opening of Castle Garden 1855.
Essays.
Kerby Miller, Irish Immigrants who Perceive America as Exile. Kathleen Conzen, German Catholic Immigrants who Make their Own in America.
5. THE SOUTHWEST BORDERLANDS IN THE EIGHTEENTH AND NINETEENTH CENTURIES.
Documents.
Excerpt from diary of (Mexican) General Manuel de Mier y Teran, on settlement of foreigners in Texas, 1829. Address of SF Austin, on Texas revolution, 1836. John Sulllivan on Manifest Destiny, 1839. Excerpts from Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo 1848. Indian incursions, report to House Committee on Indian Affairs, 1850. Ballad of Gregorio Cortez. Maps of continental United States before and after US-Mexico War.
Essays.
James F. Brooks, This Evil Extends Especially ... to the Feminine Sex: Negotiating Captivity in the New Mexico Borderlands. David Montejano, The Rivalship of Peace.
6. NATIONAL CITIZENSHIP AND FEDERAL REGULATION OF IMMIGRATION.
Documents.
Fourteenth Amendment, Sec. 1. Naturalization Act of 1870. United States v. Wong Kim Ark, 1898. Yick Wo v. Hopkins, 1886. Excerpt, Chinese exclusion case, 1889. Immigration Act of 1917. Photographs from Ellis Island and Angel Island. Interview with Barbara Barondess, Ellis Island oral history project. Chinese poetry carved on walls of Angel Island.
Essays.
Aristide Zolberg, The Great Wall Against China. Linda Bosniak, Divided Citizenships.
7. IMMIGRATION DURING THE ERA OF INDUSTRIALIZATION AND URBANIZATION.
Documents.
Slovenian recounts varying assessments of America, 1909. Upton Sinclar, The Jungle, 1906. Portrait of Sweatshop Labor in NYC, 1895. Two Italian Americans recount the 1912 Lawrence Mass strike. Three Chinese Americans recall Life and Labor in their Ethnic Community 1897-1917. John Martin's testimony to Congress on 1919 steel strike, We do not Understand the Foreigners. Jane Addams, The Settlement as a Factor in the Labor Movement. Nationality Map of Hull House neighborhood.
Essays.
James R. Barrett, Work and Community in the Jungle. Mary Lui, The Chinatown Trunk Mystery.
8. COLONIALISM AND MIGRATION.
Documents.
Alfred Beveridge advocates imperialism 1898. Joseph Crooker, The Menace to America, 1900. Victor Clark, Mexican Labor in the US, 1908. Porto Rican Labor for the Panama Canal, 1904. Porto Ricans Ungrateful, 1921. Petition from Filipino asparagus workers, California, 1928. Labor contract - Chinese workers and Hawaii Sugar planters association, 1870. On Higher Wages for Japanese Laborers (Hawaii), 1909. Insular cases, 1901.
Essays.
Christina Burnett and Burke Marshall, Foreign in a Domestic Sense. Evelyn Nakano Glenn, Japanese and Haoles in Hawaii.
9. IMMIGRANT INCORPORATION, IDENTITY, AND NATIVISM IN EARLY 20 CENTURY.
Documents.
Samuel Gompers Racializes Chinese American Labor, 1908. Asiatic Exclusion League Argues that Asians cannot be Assimilated, 1911. Fu Chi Hao reprimands Americans for Anti-Chinese attitudes, 1907. Racialized Description of Immigrants from Europe, 1915. Sociologist Portrays the Racial Dimensions of Immigrants from Europe, 1914. Theodore Roosevelt Advocates 'Americanism, 1915. Randolph Bourne Promotes cultural pluralism, 1916. Horace Kallen, Democracy versus the Melting Pot, 1915.
Essays.
James Barrett and David Roediger, In between peoples: Race, nationality and the 'new' immigrant working class. John Higham, Strangers in the Land.
10. THE TURN TO RESTRICTION.
Documents.
Immigration Act of 1924 . List of countries with assigned national origins quotas, 1924. Thind v. United States, 1923. United States v. Ozawa, 1922 . Immigration official testifies on the Border Patrol, 1930. Congressman John Box objects to Mexican Immigrants. Senator Clancy Objects to Johnson Immigration bill, 1924. LULAC founding constitution, 1929. Mexican responses to US army border raids, 1916.
Essays.
Mae Ngai, Architecture of Race in American Immigration Law. David Gutierrez, Shifting Politics of Ethnicity in the Interwar Period.
11. INCLUSION AND EXCLUSION DURING DEPRESSION AND WAR.
Documents.
Robert McLean, The Mexican Retur, 1932. Deportations Continue, 1931. Louis Sarmiento, A Call to Action, 1935. Dominic Del Turco remembers labor organizing, 1934. Executive Order 9066. Mitsuye Yamada, The Question of Loyalty, 1998. Mine Okubo, illustrations of camp life. Korematsu v. United States, 1944 . The Zoot Suit riots. Survey on Mexican American workers, US Dept of Labor, 1939. Louis Adamic, The Crisis is an Opportunity, 1940. FDR's apology issued with Repeal of Chinese exclusion, 1943.
Essays.
Gary Gerstle, American Crucible. Alice Yang Murray, The History of Military Necessity.
12. IMMIGRATION REFORM AND ETHNIC POLITICS IN THE ERA OF CIVIL RIGHTS AND THE COLD WAR.
Documents.
An eminent sociologist [Herberg] analyzes the American Way of Life, 1951. Oscar Handlin, The Immigration Fight has only Begun. Oscar Lewis, La Vida 1966. Piri Thomas, Down these Mean Streets 1967. John F. Kennedy, A Nation of Immigrants 1963. Photograph, LBJ signing Immigration Act of 1965 at Statue of Liberty. Cesar Chavez, The Plan of Delano 1965.
Essays.
Mae Ngai, The Unlovely Residue of Outworn Prejudice. Lorrin Thomas, Representing the Puerto Rican Problem.
13. IMMIGRANTS IN THE POST-INDUSTRIAL AGE.
Documents.
Ronald Reagan's speech on why the IRCA is an important piece of legislation (1986). Ruben Martinez describes the fight against Proposition 187. Justice for Janitors, 1990. Asian immigrants transplant religious institutions, 1994. Perla Rigor compares life as a nurse in the Philippines and America 1987. Sarita Sarvate Criticizes the brain drain from the third world, 2000. Santiago Maldnado details the lives of undocumented immigrants in Texas, 1994.. Caribbean American observes Life in NYC, 1971-76. Plan of Atzlan, 1969.
Essays.
Nancy Foner, Transnational Ties. Carolyn Wong, Ethnic Advocacy and Regulation.
14. REFUGEES AND ASYLEES.
Documents.
Refugee Act of 1980. A Congressman from California debates provisions of the 1980 Refugee Act, 1981. Voice of a Sudanese Refugee. Haitian refugees flee 1991 coup. A Cuban flees to the US, 1979. A Hmong's story of escape from Laos, 1975. "Fugees" soccer team, Clarkson GA, 2007.
Essays.
Aiwha Ong, Buddha is Hiding. Carl Bon Tempo, Americans at the Gate.
15. CHALLENGES FOR THE 21 CENTURY.
Documents.
A Latino and an African American debate construction of race, 1996. Census 2000 brief, "overview of race and Hispanic origin.". Remittance Senders and Receivers, 2003. Oral history of Muslim American after 9/11. Statement from American Arab anti-Discrimination Commission, 2001. Minutemen Civil Defense Corps, "Border Security First, Border Security Only, Border Security Now" 2006. Joseph Carens, The case for amnesty, 2007. Officials held truth of immigrant deaths in jail. United States v. Arizona (2010). Feisal Abdul Raul, Building on Faith.
Essays.
Lynn Stephen, Mexicans in California and Oregon. Leti Volpp, The Citizen and the Terrorist.