Making Foreigners

ISBN-13: 9781107030213 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 272 str.

Kunal M. Parker

Opis

This book connects the history of immigration with histories of Native Americans, African Americans, women, the poor, Latino/a Americans and Asian Americans.

Recenzje

'Parker's work sheds light on the ways political and legal shifts have allowed the American state to incorporate outsiders, while also rendering insiders foreign … The expansive timeline and ambitious scope of Parker's argument provides a fresh and exhaustive overview of immigration and citizenship history. Highly Recommended.' Ashley Johnson Bavery, Reviews in American History

Spis treści

1. Introduction; 2. Foreigners and borders in British North America; 3. Logics of revolution; 4. Blacks, Indians, and other aliens in antebellum America; 5. The rise of the federal immigration order; 6. Closing the gates in the early twentieth century; 7. A rights revolution?; 8. Conclusion and coda.