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Immigration and Ethnicity in American History

Summer 2003

Wednesdays, 6-10 pm

Angela Murphy

afmurphy@swbell.net

Readings:

Required Books:

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.

Grades:

Grades will be based on a combination of class participation, oral and written presentations over readings, and 2 take-home essay exams.

10 % -- Class participation (including class discussions, short in-class written assignments & any homework over readings).

30% -- Oral and written book reviews of 2 supplemental books (15% each)

60% -- 2 Take-home essay exams (30% each)

Class & Reading Schedule

May 28 – Class Introduction

Required:

Gjerde 1; Daniels

June 4 – Colonial Migrations & the Age of Revolution

Required:

Gjerde 2-3; Daniels

Supplemental:

Marianne S. Wokeck, Trade in Strangers: The Beginnings of Mass Migration to North America

Colin G. Calloway, New Worlds for All: Indians, Europeans, and the Remaking of Early America

June 11 – First Wave Immigrants

Required:

Gjerde 4-5; Daniels

Supplemental:

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

Required:

Gjerde 6-7; Daniels

Supplemental:

John Bodnar, The Transplanted: A History of Immigrants in Urban America

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 United States

June 25 – Immigration and Race & Gender Issues

Required:

Gjerde 8-9; Daniels

Supplemental:

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 San Francisco

Linda Gordon, The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction

Ian F. Haney Lopez, White by Law: The Legal Construction of Race

-- Distribute Mid-Term Take-Home Exam --

July 2 – NO CLASS

-- Midterm Exam Due – at beginning of class – July 9

July 9 – American Responses to Immigration

Required:

Gjerde 10; Daniels

Supplemental:

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 20^th Century

Required:

Gjerde 11-12; Daniels –

Supplemental:

Lizabeth Cohen, Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939

Robert Orsi, The Madonna of 115^th 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 20^th Century

Required: Gjerde13-14; Daniels –

Supplemental:

David M. Reimers, Still the Golden Door: The Third World Comes to America

Mary C. Waters, Ethnic Options: Choosing Identities in America

August 6 – Debates; Immigration and Ethnicity in the 21^st Century

Required:

Roger Daniels and Otis L. Graham, Debating American Immigration, 1882-present.

Supplemental:

David Hollinger, Post-Ethnic America

Werner Sollars, Beyond Ethnicity

Distribute Final Exam

Final Exam Due – Friday, August 8 – 8 pm (email or place in my mailbox before this time)