Immigrant Identity and the Politics of Citizenship

A Collection of Articles from the Journal of American Ethnic History

John J Bukowczyk

• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN:
  9780252082290
• eBook ISBN:
  9780252099236
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: North American History
• Index: Social Sciences

The next volume in the Common Threads book series, Immigrant Identity and the Politics of Citizenship assembles fourteen articles from the Journal of American Ethnic History . The chapters discuss the divisions and hierarchies confronted by immigrants to the United States, and how these immigrants shape, and are shaped by, the social and cultural worlds they enter. Drawing on scholarship of ethnic groups from around the globe, the articles illuminate the often fraught journey many migrants undertake from mistrusted Other to sometimes welcomed citizen. Contributors: James R. Barrett, Douglas C. Baynton, Vibha Bhalla, Julio Capó, Jr., Robert Fleegler, Gunlög Fur, Hidetaka Hirota, Karen Leonard, Willow Lung-Amam, Raymond A. Mohl, Mark Overmyer-Velázquez, Lara Putnam, David Reimers, David Roediger, and Allison Varzally.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Indians and Immigrants—Entangled Histories • Issue 33:3, Spring 2014
• 3 “The Great Entrepot for Mendicants”: Foreign Poverty and Immigration Control in New York State to 1882 • Issue 33:2, Winter 2014
• 4 Defectives in the Land: Disability and American Immigration Policy, 1882–1924 • Issue 24:3, Spring 2005
• 5 Sentiment and the Restrictionist State: Evidence from the British Caribbean Experience, ca. 1925 • Issue 35:2, Winter 2016
• 6 Inbetween Peoples: Race, Nationality and the “New Immigrant”’ Working Class • Issue 16:3, Spring 1997
• 7 Good Neighbors and White Mexicans: Constructing Race and Nation on the Mexico-U.S. Border • Issue 33:1, Fall 2013
• 8 “Forget All Differences until the Forces of Freedom Are Triumphant”: The World War II–Era Quest for Ethnic and Religious Tolerance • Issue 27:2, Winter 2008
• 9 Romantic Crossings: Making Love, Family, and Non-Whiteness in California, 1925–1950 • Issue 23:1, Fall 2003
• 10 An Unintended Reform: The 1965 Immigration Act and Third World Immigration to the United States • Issue 3:1, Fall 1983
• 11 Queering Mariel: Mediating Cold War Foreign Policy and U.S. Citizenship among Cuba’s Homosexual Exile Community, 1978–1994 • Issue 29:4, Summer 2010
• 12 “Couch Potatoes and Super-Women”: Gender, Migration, and the Emerging Discourse on Housework among Asian Indian Immigrants • Issue 27:4, Summer 2008
• 13 Malls of Meaning: Building Asian America in Silicon Valley Suburbia • Issue 34:2, Winter 2015
• 14 The Politics of Expulsion: A Short History of Alabama’s Anti-Immigrant Law, HB 56 • Issue 35:3, Spring 2016
• 15 American Muslims and Authority: Competing Discourses in a Non-Muslim State • Issue 25:1, Fall 2005