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Natives and immigrants, men and women, people from all regions, races, religions, and walks of life, have brought varying perspectives to the long-running debate on immigration. Drawing from a large cast of characters—from Thomas Jefferson, Booker T. Washington, and Cesar Chavez to Jane Addams, Henry Ford, and Patrick McCarran—this book introduces students to people who have contributed to U.S. immigration policy from the Revolution to the present. Showing how each person's opinion drew from personal experience and thus added a new dimension to the debate, the book encompasses such issues as immigration and economics, partisan politics, culture, public opinion, and ethics.
Arguments for and against immigration—culture, economics, foreign policy, race—recur repeatedly throughout U.S. history. Individuals assign them priority at specific times. The vignettes in the book put a human face on immigration policy and on abstract concepts such as labor markets. The book shows how individuals made difficult and sometimes contradictory decisions on this controversial issue.
Table of Contents
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
Product details
| Published | 30 Jan 1999 |
|---|---|
| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 352 |
| ISBN | 9780313303395 |
| Imprint | Greenwood |
| Dimensions | 235 x 156 mm |
| Series | Shapers of the Great American Debates |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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