Race and Immigration in the United States：New Histories

Race and Immigration in the United States is a collection of the very best of the new generation of scholarship in the field of immigration history. The traditional Ellis Island model of immigrant assimilation is no longer adequate to understand American history. A more subtle model is needed – one which does not exclude peoples of color from view, nor treat the experiences of European immigrants as a template for the experiences of non-white migrants. In this important collection, Paul Spickard draws together essays that illuminate the crucial differences that race makes in the study of American history.
Bringing the insight of ethnic studies scholarship into the history of immigration, Race and Immigration in the United States is an essential collection for anyone studying ethnicity and immigration in American history.

Paul Spickard is Professor of twentieth Century American Social and Cultural History at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of Almost All Aliens: Immigration, Race, and Colonialism in American History and Identity (Routledge).

Introduction: Immigration and Race in United States History 1. Race, Nation, and Culture in Recent Immigration Studies George J. Sanchez 2. Is Everywhere Nowhere? Nomads, Nations, and the Immigrant Paradigm of United States History Donna R. Gabaccia 3. How the Indians Got to Be Red Nancy Shoemaker 4. Muslims in Early America Michael A. Gomez 5. "A Distinct and Antagonistic Race": Constructions of Chinese Manhood in the Exclusionist Debates, 1869-1878 Karen A. Leong 6. Becoming Caucasian: Vicissitudes of Whiteness in American Politics and Culture Matthew Frye Jacobson 7. Encountering the Color Line in the Everyday: Italians in Interwar Chicago Thomas A. Guglielmo 8. Crossing Boundaries, Claiming a Homeland: The Mexican Chinese Transpacific Journey to Becoming Mexican, 1930s-1960s Julia Maria Schiavone Camacho 9. The Foreignness of Germs: The Persistent Association of Immigrants and Disease in American Society Howard Markel and Alexandra Minna Stern 10. "Looking Like a Lesbian": The Organization of Sexual Monitoring at the United States-Mexican Border Eithne Luibheid 11. Migration, Emergent Ethnicity, and the "Third Space": The Shifting Politics of Nationalism in Greater Mexico David G. Guttiérez