Immigrant mothers : narratives of race and maternity, 1890-1925 /
Irving, Katrina.
Urbana : University of Illinois Press,
2000.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [131]-142) and index.
Introduction : amazing racial hybrids and ethnic horrors : race and the immigrant woman, 1890-1925 -- Rediscovered "problem" : engendering the "new" immigrant -- Flouting the "racial border" : nativism, eugenics, and the sexualized immigrant woman -- President Roosevelt visits Ellis Island : racial economics and biological parsimony -- Sentimental ambitions : Americanization and the "isolated and alien" mother -- "Eternal" mothers : cultural pluralism, primitivism, and the triumph of difference.
Women immigrants
Mothers
Xenophobia
Immigrants in literature