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1 online resource (xlvii, 483 pages) : illustrations |
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Social issues primary sources collection |
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Social issues primary sources collection.
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| Contents |
Advisors and contributors -- Acknowledgements -- About the set -- Introduction -- About the entry -- Using primary sources -- Chronology -- Immigration and migration prior to 1845 -- Immigration from 1845-1870 -- Immigration from 1870-1905 -- Immigration from 1905-1945 -- Immigration from 1945 to the present -- Refugees, asylees, and displaced persons -- Immigration reform: The ongoing debate -- Multiculturalism -- Sources consulted -- Index |
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Using Primary Sources -- Chronology -- Immigration and Migration Prior to 1845 -- Introduction to Immigration and Migration Prior to 1845 -- Plan of a Slave Ship's Hold -- The John Harrower Diary, 1773-1776 -- The Arrival of Prisoners at Botany Bay Penal Colony -- Act of March 26, 1790 -- Alien Act of 1798 -- Alien Enemy Act -- Explanations and Sample Contracts for German-Speaking Emigrants Wishing to Purchase Land in America -- Steerage Act -- The Hollingworth Family Letters, 1827-1830 -- Freedom from Indenture or Prison in Australia -- Immigration from 1845-1870 -- Introduction to Immigration from 1845-1870 -- "Poor Pat Must Emigrate" -- "Mise Eire" -- The Longford Letter -- North Bank of Waitera -- Liberia -- The Know-Nothing and American Crusader -- The Home of the Colored Race -- The Integration of Aborigines in Van Diemen's Land -- "No Irish Need Apply" -- California "Anti-Coolie" Act of 1862 -- Uncle Sam's Thanksgiving Dinner -- Departure of a Colony of Emigrants at Train Station -- Naturalization Act of 1870 -- Immigration from 1870-1905 -- Introduction to Immigration from 1870-1905 -- The Emigrants' Dangers -- Arrival of Mennonite Emigrants -- Italian Life in New York -- Chinese Exclusion Act 1882 -- Rosa Cavalleri: From Northern Italy to Chicago, 1884-1926 -- Is It Right for a Chinaman to Jeopard a White Man's Dinner? -- Invitation to the Inauguration of the Statue of Liberty by the President -- The New Colossus -- The Mixed Crowd -- From Russia to the Lower East Side in the 1890s -- The Chinese Exclusion Bill -- Shall Immigration be Suspended? -- The Census and Immigration -- Immigration and Naturalization -- The Assassination of McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo -- The English Lesson -- Immigration from 1905-1945 -- Introduction to Immigration from 1905-1945 -- The Exclusion of Asiatic Immigrants in Australia -- The Melting Pot -- Good Metal in Our Melting Pot, Says Miss Wald -- Your Duty--Buy United States Government Bonds -- Come Unto Me, Ye Opprest! -- Processing Immigrant Arrivals at Ellis Island -- The Materials of the New Race -- What I Owe to America -- Emigrant Woman Saying Goodbye -- High Lights on the Chinese Exclusion and Expulsion -- Germany's Anti-Jewish Campaign -- Angel Island -- Puerto Rican or Negro? -- Message from President of United States Favoring Repeal of the Chinese Exclusion Law -- New Jewish Immigrants Await Processing in Haifa, Palestine -- Immigration from 1945 to the Present -- Introduction to Immigration from 1945 to the Present -- Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Articles 13-15 -- Oyama v. California -- Report on Testing of Children of Migratory Agricultural Workers in the Waupun Area -- Naturalization Oath of Allegiance to the United States -- Enoch Powell on the Immigration Crisis -- The Most Memorable Times of Our Lives, 1968-1975 -- Israel's Responsibility for and Policy Towards Diaspora Jewry -- Plyler v. Doe -- Mexican Immigrants Crossing the Rio Grande -- Amnesty: Who Is Eligible -- Counting the Uncountable -- Language of Closet Racism: An Illustration -- Is Teaching 'La Causa' Grounds for Firing? -- A Small Bengal, NW3 -- Youth Employment in Agriculture -- Constitutional Amendment to Allow Foreign-Born Citizens to be President -- The El Monte Experience -- International Adoptions -- U.S. Immigrant Educational Achievement -- Immigrant Homes and Wealth and Poverty -- U.S. Foreign Born by World Region of Birth -- Civic Integration -- Bishops' Conference Chairmen Support Farm Worker Proposal -- Top Ten Immigration Myths and Facts -- What Immigrants and Refugees Need to Know about the New Tennessee Driver's License and "Certificate for Driving" Law -- Your Rights and Responsibilities as a Permanent Resident -- Discontent Over Illegals in Arizona -- Immigrant Victims of Abuse Are Illegally Denied Benefits, Suit Says -- 15 Years on the Bottom Rung -- Injured Soldier Naturalized at Walter Reed by USCIS Director -- Riots and Rage -- Australian Prime Minister Worries Over 'Extremist' Muslim Immigrants -- Refugees, Asylees, and Displaced Persons -- Introduction to Refugees, Asylees, and Displaced Persons -- Truman Statement on Displaced Persons -- Message from the President of the United States Transmitting His Recommendation That Congress Enact Legislation to Enable Displaced Persons to Enter the United States as Immigrants -- Displaced Persons Act of 1948 -- Camarioca Boat Lift -- Escapee in Lorry by Berlin Wall -- Ugandan Immigrants Arrive in London -- Yitzhak Rabin on the Centrality of Zionism to Israel's Existence -- Vietnamese Boat People Arrive at Indonesia's Anambas Islands -- The Nguyen Family: From Vietnam to Chicago, 1975-1986 -- America's Haitian Influx -- Rwandan Refugees in Bukavu -- Elian Gonzalez -- Proposed Refugee Admission for Fiscal Year 2005 -- Point of No Return -- Hmong Story Cloths -- Immigration Reform: The Ongoing Debate -- Introduction to Immigration Reform: The Ongoing Debate -- California Proposition 187 -- Blood on the Border -- Amy's Story -- Huddled Masses, Please Stay Away -- Immigrants Protest in Favor of Legalization Program in Spain -- Illegal Immigrants Are Bolstering Social Security with Billions -- Bill on Illegal-Immigrant Aid Draws Fire -- The Minutemen Border Patrol -- Tom Tancredo's Wall -- House Votes for 698 Miles of Fences on Mexico Border -- Immigrants' Lament: Have Degree, No Job -- We Want to Stop People from Crossing into America Illegally -- UK Immigration and the 2005 General Election -- Come Hither -- Points System Will Favor Skilled Immigrant Workers, Says Clarke -- Holland Launches the Immigrant Quiz -- An Irish Face on the Cause of Citizenship -- 500,000 Pack Streets to Protest Immigration Bills -- Real Injustice -- Multiculturalism -- Introduction to Multiculturalism -- 1933 World's Fair in Chicago -- The Immigrant Strain -- New February Activities Focus on Black History Importance -- Reagan Signs into Law National Holiday -- Canadian Multiculturalism Act -- Bilingual Education: A Critique -- History of Bilingual Education -- Attacks on Foreigners and Immigrants in Post-Reunification Germany -- Resolution of the Board of Education Adopting the Report and Recommendations of the African-American Task Force -- Jewish Alumnus Sues University of Pennsylvania Over 'Water Buffalo' Incident -- Proposition 227 -- Checking the Immigrant Friendliness of Your Schools -- President George W. Bush and Secretary Elaine L. Chao Celebrating Asian Pacific American Heritage Month -- Australian Multiculturalism--The Policy -- McClatchy Adds "Diversity Day" as an Annual Holiday -- Gratz et al volume Bollinger -- Civic Leaders Call for Calm as Rumours Fly -- Music: The Shakira Dialectic -- Confederate Will Remain in Name of Vanderbilt Dorm -- A Southern Star Rises in the Low Country -- Dancehall with a Different Accent -- Berlusconi Warns Against Multiculturalism -- Why Aren't Black Business Tycoons Celebrated During Black History Month? -- Sources Consulted -- Index |
| Summary |
This volume of primary source documents focuses on some of the leading social issues of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries: immigration and multiculturalism. It contains approximately 175 full and excerpted documents---speeches, legislation, magazine and newspaper articles, essays, memoirs, letters, interviews, novels, songs, and works of art---as well as overview information that places each document in context. Entries are organized into chapters that feature a general overview of the chapter's subtopic. Also included is an introduction to the topic, a chronology of major events associated with the topic, and a general index |
| Notes |
Title from Web page (viewed Jan. 2, 2006) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Original: xlvii, 483 pages : illustrations ; cm |
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Print version record |
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Multiculturalism -- United States -- Sources
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Emigration and immigration.
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Multiculturalism.
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Sources
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| Subject |
United States.
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| Genre/Form |
Reference works.
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Reference works.
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Sources.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Lerner, Adrienne Wilmoth.
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Lerner, Brenda Wilmoth.
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Lerner, K. Lee.
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| LC no. |
2006026241 |
| ISBN |
1414412657 |
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9781414412658 |
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