Almost All Aliens
Immigration, Race, and Colonialism in American History and Identity
1st Edition
Published on 26. April 2010
744 pages
978-0-203-94084-6 (ISBN)
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.
For additional information and classroom resources please visit the Almost All Aliens companion website at www.routledge.com/textbooks/almostallaliens.
For additional information and classroom resources please visit the Almost All Aliens companion website at www.routledge.com/textbooks/almostallaliens.
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Paul Spickard is Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is co-author of Revealing the Sacred in Asian and Pacific America (Routledge 2003) and editor of Race and Nation: Ethnic Systems in the Modern World (Routledge 2004).
Content
Acknowledgments
Preface
1 Immigration, Race, Ethnicity, Colonialism
Beyond Ellis Island-How Not to Think about Immigration History
Not Assimilation But Race Making
Words Matter
2. Colliding Peoples in Eastern North America, 1600-1780
In the Beginning There Were Indians
There Goes the Neighborhood: European Incursion and "Settlement"
A Mixed Multitude: European Migrants
Out of Africa
Merging Peoples, Blending Cultures
3 An Anglo-American Republic? Racial Citizenship,
1760-1860
Slavery and Antislavery in the Era of the American Revolution
Free White Persons: Defining Membership
Playing Indian: White Appropriations of Native American Symbols and Identities
European Immigrants
Issues in European Migration
Nativism
Were the Irish Ever Not White?
4 The Border Crossed Us: Euro-Americans Take the
Continent, 1830-1900
U.S. Colonial Expansion across North America
Taking the Mexican Northlands
Racial Replacement
East from Asia
Slave and Citizen
Colonialism and Race Making
5 The Great Wave, 1870-1930
From New Sources and Old, to America and Back
Making a Multiethnic Working Class in the West
6 Cementing Hierarchy: Issues and Interpretations,
1870-1930
How They Lived and Worked
Gender and Migration
Angles of Entry
Making Jim Crow in the South
Making Racial and Ethnic Hierarchy in the North
Empire and Race Making
Law, Race, and Immigration
Racialist Pseudoscience and Its Offspring
Anti-Immigrant Movements
Interpretive Issues
7 White People's America, 1924-1965
Recruiting Citizens
Recruiting Guest Workers
Indians or Citizens?
World War II
Cracks in White Hegemony
Racial Fairness and the Immigration Act of 1965
8 New Migrants from New Places Since 1965
Some Migrants We Know
From Asia
From the Americas
From Europe
From Africa
Continuing Involvements Abroad
9 Redefining Membership Amid Multiplicity Since 1965
Immigration Reform, Again and Again
Panethnic Power
Disgruntled White People
New Issues in a New Era
10 Epilogue: Future Uncertain
Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration at the Dawn
of the Twenty-First Century
Projecting the Future
Immigration Issues
Reprise
Appendices
APPENDIX A:
Chronology of Immigration and Naturalization Laws and Decisions
APPENDIX B:
Tables
Notes
Illustration Permission Acknowledgments
Also by Paul Spickard
Index
Preface
1 Immigration, Race, Ethnicity, Colonialism
Beyond Ellis Island-How Not to Think about Immigration History
Not Assimilation But Race Making
Words Matter
2. Colliding Peoples in Eastern North America, 1600-1780
In the Beginning There Were Indians
There Goes the Neighborhood: European Incursion and "Settlement"
A Mixed Multitude: European Migrants
Out of Africa
Merging Peoples, Blending Cultures
3 An Anglo-American Republic? Racial Citizenship,
1760-1860
Slavery and Antislavery in the Era of the American Revolution
Free White Persons: Defining Membership
Playing Indian: White Appropriations of Native American Symbols and Identities
European Immigrants
Issues in European Migration
Nativism
Were the Irish Ever Not White?
4 The Border Crossed Us: Euro-Americans Take the
Continent, 1830-1900
U.S. Colonial Expansion across North America
Taking the Mexican Northlands
Racial Replacement
East from Asia
Slave and Citizen
Colonialism and Race Making
5 The Great Wave, 1870-1930
From New Sources and Old, to America and Back
Making a Multiethnic Working Class in the West
6 Cementing Hierarchy: Issues and Interpretations,
1870-1930
How They Lived and Worked
Gender and Migration
Angles of Entry
Making Jim Crow in the South
Making Racial and Ethnic Hierarchy in the North
Empire and Race Making
Law, Race, and Immigration
Racialist Pseudoscience and Its Offspring
Anti-Immigrant Movements
Interpretive Issues
7 White People's America, 1924-1965
Recruiting Citizens
Recruiting Guest Workers
Indians or Citizens?
World War II
Cracks in White Hegemony
Racial Fairness and the Immigration Act of 1965
8 New Migrants from New Places Since 1965
Some Migrants We Know
From Asia
From the Americas
From Europe
From Africa
Continuing Involvements Abroad
9 Redefining Membership Amid Multiplicity Since 1965
Immigration Reform, Again and Again
Panethnic Power
Disgruntled White People
New Issues in a New Era
10 Epilogue: Future Uncertain
Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration at the Dawn
of the Twenty-First Century
Projecting the Future
Immigration Issues
Reprise
Appendices
APPENDIX A:
Chronology of Immigration and Naturalization Laws and Decisions
APPENDIX B:
Tables
Notes
Illustration Permission Acknowledgments
Also by Paul Spickard
Index
