
Almost All Aliens
Immigration, Race, and Colonialism in American History and Identity
Paul Spickard(Author)
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 22. June 2007
Book
Hardback
744 pages
978-0-415-93592-0 (ISBN)
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Description
Almost All Aliens offers a unique reinterpretation of immigration in the history of the United States. Leaving behind the traditional melting-pot model of immigrant assimilation, Paul Spickard puts forward a fresh and provocative reconceptualization that embraces the multicultural reality of immigration that has always existed in the United States. His astute study illustrates the complex relationship between ethnic identity and race, slavery, and colonial expansion. Examining not only the lives of those who crossed the Atlantic, but also those who crossed the Pacific, the Caribbean, and the North American Borderlands, Almost All Aliens provides a distinct, inclusive analysis of immigration and identity in the United States from 1600 until the present.
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Reviews / Votes
"Placing race at the center of his story, Spickard offers an important corrective to dominant immigrant narratives about European huddled masses and bountiful golden doors. As immigration debates rage, Almost All Aliens provides vital historical perspective."-Thomas A. Guglielmo, Assistant Professor, American Studies Department, George Washington University
"Almost All Aliens is simply stunning. Spickard powerfully connects the study of immigration to the histories of race, slavery, and the displacement of Native peoples. In doing so, he revises both immigration history and American history."
-Erika Lee, author of At America's Gates: Chinese Immigration During the Exclusion Era, 1882-1943
"With Almost All Aliens Paul Spickard again demonstrates that he is one of our most skillful and innovative interpreters of race and ethnicity in American life. He challenges most of the assumptions made about the topic since Crevecoeur asked his fateful question and provides an exciting analytic narrative of our immigrant past."
-Roger Daniels, Charles Phelps Taft Professor Emeritus of History, University of Cincinnati
"Almost All Aliens is a stunning achievement! By combining the insights of the massive recent literature on immigration, race, and colonialism, Paul Spickard has produced a masterful new narrative of U.S. immigration history for the 21st century. Immensely readable and thoroughly provocative, it will delight students and scholars of immigration alike."
-George J. Sanchez, University of Southern California, author of Becoming Mexican American
"With this book, Paul Spickard has produced the best single-volume study of American immigration history available today."
- K. Scott Wong, Williams College
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
25 s/w Photographien bzw. Rasterbilder, 30 s/w Zeichnungen, 36 s/w Tabellen
36 Tables, black and white; 30 Line drawings, black and white; 25 Halftones, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 245 mm
Width: 170 mm
Weight
1451 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-415-93592-0 (9780415935920)
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Immigration, Race, and Colonialism in American History and Identity
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Person
Paul Spickard is Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is co-author of Revealingthe Sacred in Asian and Pacific America (Routledge 2003) and editor of Race and Nation: Ethnic Systems in theModern World (Routledge 2004).
Content
1. Immigration, Race, Ethnicity, Colonialism 2. Colliding Peoples in Eastern North America, 1600-1780 3. An Anglo-American Republic? Racial Citizenship, 1760-1860 4. The Border Crossed Us-Euro-Americans Take the Continent, 1830-1900 5. The Great Wave, 1870-1924 6. Cementing Hierarchy: Issues and Interpretations 7. White People's America, 1924-1965 8. Redefining Membership amid Multiplicity, 1965-2000. Epilogue: Future Uncertain