American Immigration and Ethnicity

Chapter 1 Preface and Introduction

Chapter 2 A Comparison of Contemporary Immigration and the New Immigration of the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

Chapter 3 Making a New Home in a New Land—Resettling in the United States

Chapter 4 Transnational Ties: The Immigrants’ Continuing Relationships with Their Homelands

Chapter 5 Ethnicity and Ethnic Identification

Chapter 6 Generations

Chapter 7 Nativism, an American Perennial

Chapter 8 Becoming White: Irish Immigrants in the Nineteenth Century

Chapter 10 What the Immigrants Make, America Takes: Work in Immigrant Communities

Chapter 11 Family, Domestic Economy, and Women’s and Men’s Lives

Chapter 12 Language: Social and Political Perspectives

Chapter 13 The Physical Health and Mental Well-Being of Immigrants

Chapter 14 Traditions and Invented Traditions

Chapter 15 Ethnicity and American Popular Culture