Mary Elizabeth Brown

Shapers of the Great Debate on Immigration

A Biographical Dictionary

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL
• Seitenzahl: 350
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Januar 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 692g
• ISBN-13: 9780313303395
• ISBN-10: 0313303398
• Artikelnr.: 21956481

Autorenporträt

Mary E. Brown

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Behind U.S. Immigration Law 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