Race and immigration in United States history
Subtitle: new histories
By: edited by Paul Spickard
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9780415991377; 9780415991384; 9780203804926
Subjects: Emigration and immigration; Race relations; Immigrants; History; Minorities
Notes: "Simultaneously published in the UK"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Race, nation, and culture in recent immigration studies / George J. Sanchez; title: Is everywhere nowhere? Nomads, nations, and the immigrant paradigm of United States history / Donna R. Gabaccia; title: How the Indians got to be red / Nancy Shoemaker; title: Muslims in early America / Michael A. Gomez; title: "A distinct and antagonistic race" : constructions of Chinese manhood in the exclusionist debates, 1869-1878 / Karen A. Leong; title: Becoming Caucasian : vicissitudes of whiteness in American politics and culture / Matthew Frye Jacobson; title: Encountering the color line in the everyday : Italians in interwar Chicago / Thomas A. Guglielmo; title: Crossing boundaries, claiming a homeland : the Mexican Chinese transpacific journey to becoming Mexican, 1930s-1960s / Julia Maria Schiavone Camacho; title: The foreignness of germs : the persistent association of immigrants and disease in American society / Howard Markel and Alexandra Minna Stern; title: "Looking like a lesbian" : the organization of sexual monitoring at the United States-Mexican border / Eithne Luibheid; title: Migration, emergent ethnicity, and the "third space" : the shifting politics of nationalism in greater Mexico / David G. Guttiérez.