American Dreaming, Global Realities

American Dreaming, Global Realities

Author: Donna R. Gabaccia

Publisher:

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 582

ISBN-13:

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Presents a collection of twenty-two essays that explore how immigrant lives are affected in economic, regional, familial, and cultural ways. Discusses the creation of new cultural forms blending old and new and immigrant resistance to discard their old traditions in order to become Americanized.


Italian Workers of the World

Italian Workers of the World

Author: Donna R. Gabaccia

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 9780252026591

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Offering a kaleidoscopic perspective on the experiences of Italian workers on foreign soil, Italian Workers of the World explores the complex links between international class formation and nation building. Distinguished by an international panel of contributors, this wide-ranging volume examines how the reception of immigrants in their new countries shaped their sense of national identity and helped determine the nature of the multiethnic states in which they settled. In Argentina and Brazil, Italian migrants were welcomed as a civilizing influence and were instrumental in establishing and leading syndicalist and anarcho-syndicalist labor movements committed to labor internationalism. In the United States, by contrast, where Italian workers were greeted by the American Federation of Labor's hostility to socialism, internationalism, and unskilled laborers, they organized in ethnically mixed unions, including the radical Industrial Workers of the World. The xenophobia they encountered in the land of opportunity ultimately encouraged sympathy among Italian Americans for Mussolini's modernizing, imperialist ambitions for the Italian state.Covering the work of republican Garibaldi boundaries of historical nationalism.


Body and Nation

Body and Nation

Author: Emily S. Rosenberg

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 2014-07-31

Total Pages: 346

ISBN-13: 0822376717

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Body and Nation interrogates the connections among the body, the nation, and the world in twentieth-century U.S. history. The idea that bodies and bodily characteristics are heavily freighted with values that are often linked to political and social spheres remains underdeveloped in the histories of America's relations with the rest of the world. Attentive to diverse state and nonstate actors, the contributors provide historically grounded insights into the transnational dimensions of biopolitics. Their subjects range from the regulation of prostitution in the Philippines by the U.S. Army to Cold War ideals of American feminine beauty, and from "body counts" as metrics of military success to cultural representations of Mexican migrants in the United States as public health threats. By considering bodies as complex, fluctuating, and interrelated sites of meaning, the contributors to this collection offer new insights into the workings of both soft and hard power. Contributors. Frank Costigliola, Janet M. Davis, Shanon Fitzpatrick, Paul A. Kramer, Shirley Jennifer Lim, Mary Ting Yi Lui, Natalia Molina, Brenda Gayle Plummer, Emily S. Rosenberg, Kristina Shull, Annessa C. Stagner, Marilyn B. Young


Foreign Relations

Foreign Relations

Author: Donna R. Gabaccia

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2015-01-04

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13: 0691163650

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A new history exploring U.S. immigration in global context Histories investigating U.S. immigration have often portrayed America as a domestic melting pot, merging together those who arrive on its shores. Yet this is not a truly accurate depiction of the nation's complex connections to immigration. Offering a brand-new global history of the subject, Foreign Relations takes a comprehensive look at the links between American immigration and U.S. foreign relations. Donna Gabaccia examines America’s relationship to immigration and its debates through the prism of the nation’s changing foreign policy over the past two centuries. She shows that immigrants were not isolationists who cut ties to their countries of origin or their families. Instead, their relations to America were often in flux and dependent on government policies of the time. An innovative history of U.S. immigration, Foreign Relations casts a fresh eye on a compelling and controversial topic.


From Coveralls to Zoot Suits

From Coveralls to Zoot Suits

Author: Elizabeth Rachel Escobedo

Publisher: UNC Press Books

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 251

ISBN-13: 1469602059

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From Coveralls to Zoot Suits: The Lives of Mexican American Women on the World War II Home Front


Mexican Chicago

Mexican Chicago

Author: Gabriela F. Arredondo

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 0252074971

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Becoming Mexican in early-twentieth-century Chicago


Intimacy and Italian Migration

Intimacy and Italian Migration

Author: Loretta Baldassar

Publisher: Fordham Univ Press

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 0823231844

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Loretta Baldassar is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Sociology at the University of Western Australia. --


The Outside

The Outside

Author: Alice Elliot

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2021-04-06

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13: 0253054761

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What does migration look like from the inside out? In The Outside, Alice Elliot decenters conventional approaches to migration by focusing on places of departure rather than arrival and rethinks migration from the perspective of those who have not (yet) left. Through an intimate ethnography of towns and villages notorious in Morocco for their striking emigration to "the outside," Elliot traces the powerful ways migration permeates life: as brutal bureaucratic machinery administering hope and despair, as intimate force crisscrossing kinship relations and bonds of love and care, as imaginative horizon of the self and of the future. Challenging dominant understandings of migration and their deadly consequences by centering non-migrants' sharp theorizations and intimate experiences of "the outside," Elliot recasts migration as a deeply relational entity, and attends to the ethnographic, conceptual, and political imagination required by the constitutive relationship between migration and life.


From Out of the Shadows

From Out of the Shadows

Author: Vicki Ruíz

Publisher: OUP USA

Published: 2008-11-05

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 0195374770

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An anniversary edition of the first full study of Mexican American women in the twentieth century, with new preface


Migra!

Migra!

Author: Kelly Lytle Hernandez

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13: 0520257693

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"Migra! is the first and only substantive history of the U.S. Border Patrol. Hernandez breaks new ground in this deeply researched account of its formation and development."--George Sanchez, author of Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900-1945