E Pluribus Unum?: Contemporary and Historical Perspectives on Immigrant Political Incorporation: Contemporary and Historical Perspectives on Immigrant Political Incorporation

437 Pages·2001·29.944 MB·English

by  Gary Gerstle

E Pluribus Unulll?

E Pluribus UnuIn?
Contemporary and Historical Perspectives
on Immigrant Political Incorporation
Gary Gerstle and John Mollenkopf
Editors
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E pluribus unum? : contemporary and historical perspectives on immigrant political
incorporation / Gary Gerstle and John Mollenkopf, editors.
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1. Immigrants-United States-History. 2. l;nited States-Emigration and
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-- Contents --
Contributors ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction The Political Incorporation of Immigrants,
Then and Now 1
Gary Gerstle and John Mollenkopf
PART I THE POLITICS OF IMMIGRANT
INCORPORATION
Chapter 1 Beyond the Boss: Immigration and American
Political Culture from 1880 to 1940 33
Evelyn Savidge Sterne
Chapter 2 Building America, One Person at a Time:
Naturalization and Political Behavior of the
Naturalized in Contemporary American Politics 67
Louis DeSipio
PART II IMMIGRANTS AND AMERICAN CIVIC
CULTURE
Chapter 3 Sea Change in the Civic Culture in the 1960s 109
Philip Gleason
Chapter 4 Making Americans: Immigration Meets Race 143
Desmond King
PART III TRANSNATIONALISM AND THE
POLITICAL BEHAVIOR OF IMMIGRANTS
Chapter 5 Immigrants, Transnationalism, and Ethnicization:
A Comparison of This Great Wave and the Last 175
Ewa Morawska
viii Contents
Chapter G On the Political Participation of Transnational
Migrants: Old Practices and New Trends 213
Luis Eduardo Guarnizo
PART IV IMMIGRANTS AND THE AMERICAN
STATE
Chapter 7 Policing Boundaries: Migration, Citizenship, and
the State 267
T. Alexander Aleinikoff
Chapter 8 Historical Patterns of Immigrant Status and
Incorporation in the United States 292
Reed Veda
PART V IMMIGRANTS, SCHOOLS, AND
POLITICAL SOCIALIZATION
Chapter 9 School for Citizens: The Politics of Civic
Education from 1790 to 1990 331
David Tyack
Chapter 10 Public Education, Immigrants, and Racialization:
The Contemporary Americanization Project 371
Laurie Olsen
Index 413
-- Contributors --
Gary Gerstle is professor of history and director of the Center for
Historical Studies at the University of Maryland.
John Mollenkopf is professor of political science and sociology
and director of the Center for Urban Research at the City Univer
sity of New York Graduate Center.
T. Alexander Aleinikoff is a professor at the Georgetown Univer
sity Law Center and a senior associate at the Migration Policy Insti
tute.
Louis DeSipio is associate professor of political science and direc
tor of the Latina-Latino Studies Program at the University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign.
Philip Gleason is professor emeritus of history at the University of
Notre Dame.
Luis Eduardo Guarnizo is associate professor of sociology at the
Department of Human and Community Development at the Uni
versity of California, Davis.
Desmond King is professor of politics and fellow of S1. John's Col
lege, University of Oxford.
Ewa Morawska is professor of sociology and history at the Univer
sity of Pennsylvania.