Immigration and Ethnicity in
American History
Reading List
Required Books:
See syllabus for reading schedule.
Roger Daniels, Coming to America: A History of Immigration and Ethnicity in American Life
Jon Gjerde, ed. Major Problems in American Immigration and
Ethnic History
Roger Daniels and
Otis L. Graham, Debating American
Immigration, 1882 – Present.
Supplemental Readings:
In addition to the required class readings, each student will choose 2 additional readings from the “supplemental” list – one before the midterm and the other before the final exam. Students will write a 2 to 3 page book review (12 point typed – double spaced – 1 inch margins) and give a 10 minute oral report on each reading to the class. Both the oral and written reports are due on the class day that the book is listed for. You will sign up for your 2 books on the first class day. Late assignments will not be accepted. Supplemental books for each week’s topics are listed below:
June 4 – Colonial Migrations & the Age of Revolution
Marianne S.
Wokeck, Trade in Strangers: The
Beginnings of Mass Migration to
Colin G.
Calloway, New Worlds for All: Indians,
Europeans, and the Remaking of Early
June 11 – First Wave Immigrants
Bruce Levine, The Spirit of ’48: German Immigrants, Labor
Conflict, and the Coming of the Civil War
Robert Ernst, Immigrant Life in New York City: 1825-1863
Kerby A. Miller, Emigrants and Exiles: Ireland and the Irish
Exodus to North America – pages 3-344.
Tyler Anbinder, Nativism and Slavery: The Northern Know
Nothings and the Politics of the 1850s
June 18 – Industrial Immigrants & Migration Patterns
Supplemental:
John Bodnar, The Transplanted: A History of Immigrants in
Urban
Susan A. Glenn, Daughters of the Shtetl: Life and Labor in
the Immigrant Generation
Mark Wyman, Round Trip America: The Immigrants Return to
Europe, 1880-1930
Matthew Frye
Jacobson, Special Sorrows: The Diasporic
Imagination of Irish, Polish and Jewish Immigrants in the
June 25 –
Immigration and Race & Gender Issues
Hasia Diner, Erin’s Daughter’s in America: Irish
Immigrant Women in the Nineteenth Century
Judy Yung, Unbound Feet: A Social History of Chinese
Women in
Linda Gordon, The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction
Ian F. Haney
Lopez, White by Law: The Legal
Construction of Race
July 9 – American Responses to Immigration
Alan M. Kraut, Silent Travellers: Germs, Genes and the
Immigrant Menace
Sucheng Chan, ed.
Entry Denied: Exclusion and the Chinese Community
in America, 1882-1943
Roger Daniels, Not Like Us, Immigrants and Minorities in
America, 1890-1924
July 16 – Immigration and Ethnicity in the First Half of
the 20th Century
Lizabeth Cohen, Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in
Chicago, 1919-1939
Robert Orsi, The Madonna of 115th Street:
Faith and Community in Italian Harlem, 1880-1950
David Gutierrez, Walls and Mirrors: Mexican Americans, Mexican Immigrants, and the Politics of Ethnicity
Greg Robinson, By Order of the President: FDR and the Internment of Japanese Americans
Frederick Luebke, Bonds of Loyalty: German Americans and World War I
July 30 – Immigration and Ethnicity in the Second Half of the 20th Century
David M. Reimers, Still
the Golden Door: The Third World Comes to
Mary C. Waters, Ethnic
Options: Choosing Identities in
August 6 – Debates; Immigration and Ethnicity in the 21st
Century
David Hollinger, Post-Ethnic
Werner Sollars, Beyond
Ethnicity