What’s New about the "New" Immigration?: Traditions and Transformations in the United States since 1965 - Softcover

Halter, Marilyn; Johnson, Marilynn S.; Viens, Katheryn P.; Wright, Conrad Edick

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1349503258 ISBN 13: 9781349503254

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014

Synopsis

Historians commonly point to the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act as the inception of a new chapter in the story of American immigration. This wide-ranging interdisciplinary volume brings together scholars from varied disciplines to consider what is genuinely new about this period.

About this title

About the Author:

Christopher Capozzola, MIT, USA Mary Odem, Emory University, USA Irene Brown, Emory University, USA Domenic Vitiello, University of Pennsylvania, USA Nancy Foner, Hunter College, USA Kristen Lucken, Brandeis University, USA Veronica McComb, Lenoir-Rhyne University, USA Caroline Brettell, Southern Methodist University, USA Xiao-huang Yin, Occidental College, USA Maria Cristina García, Cornell University, USA Thomas Jessen Adams, Tulane University, USA

Review:

"A rich, insightful, cross-disciplinary examination of one of the most significant periods in U.S. immigration history - our own. The collection offers a cohesive yet remarkably varied treatment of the challenges faced and the lives carved out by 'new' immigrants, and of the mark that recent immigration has made, from Boston to Atlanta to Southern California. A truly excellent anthology." - Matthew Frye Jacobson, William Robertson Coe Professor of American Studies & History and Professor of African American Studies, Yale University, USA

"This volume pivots on the juxtaposition of recent and earlier eras of mass immigration, yielding useful comparisons between policies, groups, and collective identity that will greatly interest scholars who explore the historical dimensions of international migration in the United States." - Reed Ueda, Professor of History, Tufts University, USA

About this edition

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1349503258
• ISBN 13: 9781349503254
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 316
• Editor: Loparo Kenneth A.