Paper 24 reading list

Gary Gerstle, “Liberty, Coercion, and the Making of Americans” JAH (1997) [with responses by Hollinger
and Gabaccia]
Gary Gerstle, American Crucible: Race and Nation in the Twentieth Century (2001)
Matthew Jacobson, Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race (1998)
Russell A. Kazal, “Revisiting Assimilation: The Rise, Fall, and Reappraisal of a Concept in American
Ethnic History,” AHR (1995)
Desmond King, Making Americans: Immigration, Race, and the Origins of the Diverse Democracy (2000)
David Montgomery, “Racism, Immigrants, and Political Reform,” JAH (2001)
David M. Reimers, Unwelcome Strangers: American Identity and the Turn Against Immigration (1998)
Aristide R. Zolberg, A Nation by Design: Immigration Policy in the Fashioning of America (2006)
d. Immigration and Ethnicity
Lizabeth Cohen, Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-39 (1990)
Roger Daniels, Asian America: Chinese and Japanese in the United States since 1850 (1988)
Hasia Diner, Hungering for America: Italian, Irish, and Jewish Foodways in the Age of Migration (2001)
——, Erin’s Daughters in America: Irish Immigrant Women in the Nineteenth Century (1983)
Nancy Foner, New Immigrants in New York (1987)
Donna R. Gabaccia, Italy’s Many Diasporas (2000)
Susan Glenn, Daughters of the Shtetl: Life and Labor in the Immigrant Generation (1990)
Juan Gonzalez, Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America (2000)
Michael D. Harris, Colored Pictures: Race and Visual Representation (2003)
Andrew Heinze, Adapting to Abundance: Jewish Immigrants, Mass Consumption and the Search for
American Identity (1990)
Jenna Weissman Joselit, The Wonder of America: Reinventing Jewish Culture, 1880-1950 (1994)
Timothy Meagher, Inventing Irish America: Generation, Class, and Ethnic Identity in a New England City,
1880-1928 (2001)
Deborah Dash Moore, At Home in America: Second Generation New York Jews (1981)
Mae M. Ngai, Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America (2004)
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