An Introduction to Immigration and Ethnic History

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An Introduction to Immigration and Ethnic History

• Knowing the Larger Picture First

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Historiographical Overview

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

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Chicago School, 1920s and 1930s

• Park, Burgess, and Wirth
• The City and The Ghetto
• Ecological Zones
• Geographical
• Socio-economic
• Ethnic
• Assimilation
• Melting Pot

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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

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Ethnic Studies,Late 1960s/1970s

• 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

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Immigration and Ethnic History since 1970s

• Identity is complicatedculture as fluid and
  historical not static and primordial
• Hybridity
• Impact of 20th-century mass culture and consumer
  culture

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Terms we need to know

• Assimilationmeasurements?
• Acculturationmeasurements?
• Chain migration
• Ethnic Encalves
• Push/Pull Factors
• 1924 Immigration Law
• 1965 Immigration Law
• Pluralism/ (multi-culturalism)
• Nativism/ Xenophobia