..., and literary production. David Hersland’s suicidal self-starvation, in this reading, erases his own Jewishness, transforming himself and other descendants of immigrants into unmarked Americans. Gertrude Stein Making of Americans excrement new immigrants Jewishness Leon Katz anal pregnancy replacement...

... the “new immigrants” from eastern and southern Europe who had largely displaced the previous flow of arrivals from western Europe by late in the nineteenth century. Of this group the Poles were a significant number. Among the recent immigrants, only the Italians exceeded the Poles, and not by much...

...This chapter explores the social and political forces of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries that produced the quotas. During this era of national anxiety over the inferiority of the “new immigrants,” the federal government took stronger measures to control immigration. The era’s race...

...The introduction looks at the broader efforts of many Americans, animated by nativism and xenophobia, to cast so called “new immigrants” from Asia and Europe as undesirable. At the end of the nineteenth century, immigration laws emerged as a tool of social engineering and nation building. At first...

...The first chapter examines Italian and Jewish immigrants’ efforts to oppose proposed restrictions on new immigrants from eastern and southern Europe from the passage of the 1882 Immigration Act to the adoption of a literacy test in 1917. During this critical period in the rise...

..., contempt, or condescension, especially if the new immigrants present conspicuous differences. The chapter also evaluates the impact of ethnocentrism on public opinion about immigration. Great Society immigrants first generation and ethnocentrism Immigration and Nationality Act Amendments Immigration...

... declaration of divided affection for America and his country of origin. It details how Stevenson ultimately accepted immigration restriction as the only solution to the problems posed by the New Immigrants. It also reviews the skepticism on the amalgamation of cultures and attempts to reshape immigrants...

... campaigns Calles Plutarco Elías Cinco Jorge Mexican nation new immigrants dragon dancing diaspora The year 1971 not only witnessed a sharp break in the relationship between Mexico and the Republic of China; it also saw a severed relationship between the ROC and Chinese Mexicans. Paisanos...

...The fourth chapter explainshow Hollywood came to stand in for the postwar panic over the cultural influence of new immigrants and the immorality of modern girls, driving the film censorship movement to unprecedented heights. Critics, including Henry Ford and the second Ku Klux Klan, launched...

...This chapter explores Americanization—this time in a new immigrant context. It looks at the better-known archive of mainstream Americanization publications and the lesser-known archive of the Chicago Foreign Language Press Survey. The chapter highlights that the Americanization of new immigrants...

...This chapter asks: what cultural work did silent film do for Americanization, the active and sometimes coercive campaign to make new immigrants into good Americans? It argues that, just as Americanization did not produce compliant citizens overnight, silent film as a powerful new medium...

.... The chapter then looks at the acceptability of the descendants of new immigrants by dominant majority groups through an analysis of mixed unions, examining both the frequency and consequences of these most intimate of relations. integration mainstream mixed unions national identity second generation...

... in a globalized world. Contemporary immigration flows are creating common patterns of integration as more nations are receiving large numbers of “new immigrants.” This analysis argues, based on its empirical and comparative methodology, for the need to move beyond assimilation and ethnic pluralism as modes...

... of settler colonialism. However, as the chapter argues, Americanization meant a renunciation of political allegiance to other sovereigns, the acquisition of English, and civic education for citizenship for new immigrants. Both groups were targeted by legislative acts in 1924: the Johnson-Reed Immigration Act...

... in the American settler imaginary, in narratives of deficiency that the work of Americanization sought to reinforce. Although many non-Anglo-Saxon peoples were intimately implicated in or co-opted by Americanization, the chapter focuses on Native and new immigrants, two groups rarely read together. Drawing...

... it handles entanglements between ‘new immigrants’ and Chinese Peranakan. This chapter also observes that New  Friend features a Sinophone ‘linguistic creolisation’, inverting the hierarchical relationship between Chinese people and foreigners found in S.E...

... Aryeh “Lova” censors Guber Rivka Kurdish Jews Morocco Sinai War 1956 Kfar Vitkin bombardment laborers World War II border war frontier settlements infiltration Mizrahim new immigrants Palestinian refugees Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, And horror hath overwhelmed me. Psalms...