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Title: An Introduction to Immigration and Ethnic History


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An Introduction to Immigration and Ethnic History
  • Knowing the Larger Picture First

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Historiographical Overview
  • How Historians (and Sociologists) Have Studied
    immigrants and ethnicity in the US since the 1920s

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Chicago School, 1920s and 1930s
  • Park, Burgess, and Wirth
  • The City and The Ghetto
  • Ecological Zones
  • Geographical
  • Socio-economic
  • Ethnic
  • Assimilation
  • Melting Pot

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The Un-assimilated, 1950s and early 1960s
  • Oscar Handlin, The Uprooted renews interest in
    immigration history
  • Glazer and Moynihan, Beyond the Melting Pot
  • Race
  • Oscar Lewis, Culture of Poverty Thesis

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Ethnic Studies,Late 1960s/1970s
  • Renewed look into immigrants and their
    communities
  • Enclaves
  • Cultural persistence/ resistance
  • Politicized atmosphere of late 1960s
  • Universities develop ethnic studies programs
  • Black Studies
  • Chicano Studies
  • Puerto Rican Studies
  • Renewal of White Ethnic Pride
  • Irish
  • Italian

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Immigration and Ethnic History since 1970s
  • Identity is complicatedculture as fluid and
    historical not static and primordial
  • Hybridity
  • Impact of 20th-century mass culture and consumer
    culture

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Terms we need to know
  • Assimilationmeasurements?
  • Acculturationmeasurements?
  • Chain migration
  • Ethnic Encalves
  • Push/Pull Factors
  • 1924 Immigration Law
  • 1965 Immigration Law
  • Pluralism/ (multi-culturalism)
  • Nativism/ Xenophobia
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