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Tuesday 2 February 2010

Further Reading re 'Attitudes to Early Twentieth Century Immigration into the USA'

Recommended by Dr. Kevin Yuill, Senior Lecturer, University of Sunderland:

Roger Daniels, Not Like Us: Immigrants and Minorities in America, 1890-1924 (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1997)

Kristofer Allerfeldt, Beyond the Huddled Masses: American Immigration and the Treaty of Versailles (London: I. B. Tauris, 2006)

James A. Barrett, “Americanization from the Bottom Up: Immigration and the Remaking of the Working-Class in the United States, 1880-1930,” Journal of American History Vol. 79, No. 3 (December 1992), pp996-1020.

King, Desmond, Making Americans: Immigration, Race, and the Origins of the Diverse Democracy (London: Harvard University Press, 2000)

Oscar Handlin, Race and Nationality in American Life (Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1957, ©1948)

Mae M. Ngai,, Impossible Subjects:Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005)

John Gjerde, Major Problems in American Immigration and Ethnic History (Boston, 1998)

Kevin Yuill, “Creating an American Music: A Critical View of the Origins of Country,” Reconstruction 8.4 (2008)

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