Introduces students to people who have contributed to U.S. immigration policy from the Revolution to the present.
Introduction: Behind U.S. Immigration Law
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826): "A Right Which Nature Has Given to
All Men"
Lyman Beecher (1775-1863): The No-Popery Crusade
John Joseph Hughes (1797-1864): Definitions of "Assimilation"
Denis Kearney (1847-1907): "The Chinese Must Go!"
Booker T. Washington (1856-1915): "Cast Down Your Buckets Where You
Are"
Jacob A. Riis (1849-1914): How the Other Half Lives
Jane Addams (1860-1935): Settling in the American City
Henry Cabot Lodge(1850-1924): Immigration Restriction As National
Policy
Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919): Race Suicide
Joseph Petrosino (1860-1909): International Criminal Conspiracies;
Madison Grant (1865-1937): The Passing of the Great Race
A. Mitchell Palmer (1872-1936): Red Scare
Henry Ford (1863-1947): The Protocols of the Elders of Zion
Laura Fermi (1907-1977): Illustrious Immigrants
Patrick Anthony McCarran (1876-1954): Cold War Immigration
Oscar Handlin (1915- ): The Uprooted and Other Images of
Immigration
Edward M. Kennedy (1932- ): Immigration as a Solution to Other
Problems
Cesar Chavez (1927-1993): Migrant Farm Workers
Alan K. Simpson (1931- ): "There Can Be No Perfect Immigrant Reform
Bill"
John Tanton (1934- ): Of Grass and Grassroots
Brief Biographies
Bibliography
Index
MARY ELIZABETH BROWN is Assistant Professor in the Social Science Division of Marymount Manhattan College and also assists with special projects at the Center for Migration Studies. She has done research on the intersection of U.S. immigration and religious history and is the author of such books as Churches, Communities and Children: Italian Immigrants in the Archdiocese of New York, 1880-1945 (1995).
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..."this is a good resource."-The Book Report
..."this volume will be well received in high school and college
collections."-Lawrence Looks at Books
"The biographies are a joy to peruse. This work is highly
recommended for any reference collection."-American Reference Books
Annual
"This is an interesting work with an unique approach. It is
recommended for high-school, public, and college
libraries."-Booklist/Reference Books Bulletin
"This will be a useful resource for college and research libraries
as well as for public libraries in states with significant
immigrant populations."-Choice
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