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An Introduction to Immigration and Ethnic History

An Introduction to Immigration and Ethnic History. Knowing the Larger Picture First…. Historiographical Overview. How Historians (and Sociologists) Have Studied immigrants and ethnicity in the US since the 1920s. “Chicago School”, 1920s and 1930s. Park, Burgess, and Wirth

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An Introduction to Immigration and Ethnic History

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  1. An Introduction to Immigration and Ethnic History Knowing the Larger Picture First…

  2. Historiographical Overview • How Historians (and Sociologists) Have Studied immigrants and ethnicity in the US since the 1920s

  3. “Chicago School”, 1920s and 1930s • Park, Burgess, and Wirth • “The City” and “The Ghetto” • Ecological Zones • Geographical • Socio-economic • Ethnic • Assimilation • “Melting Pot”

  4. The Un-assimilated, 1950s and early 1960s • Oscar Handlin, “The Uprooted” renews interest in immigration history • Glazer and Moynihan, “Beyond the Melting Pot” • Race • Oscar Lewis, “Culture of Poverty” Thesis

  5. Renewed look into immigrants and their communities Enclaves Cultural persistence/ resistance Politicized atmosphere of late 1960s Universities develop ethnic studies programs Black Studies Chicano Studies Puerto Rican Studies Renewal of White Ethnic Pride Irish Italian Ethnic Studies,Late 1960s/1970s

  6. Immigration and Ethnic History since 1970s • Identity is complicated—culture as fluid and historical not static and primordial • Hybridity • Impact of 20th-century mass culture and consumer culture

  7. Terms we need to know: • Assimilation—measurements? • Acculturation—measurements? • Chain migration • Ethnic Encalves • Push/Pull Factors • 1924 Immigration Law • 1965 Immigration Law • Pluralism/ (multi-culturalism) • Nativism/ Xenophobia

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