Then and now or then to now: Immigration to New York in contemporary and historical perspective

Journal of American Ethnic History

Volumn 25, Issue 2-3, 2006, Pages 33-47

  Foner, Nancy ^a  

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References (41)

1. Nancy Foner and George Fredrickson, eds., Not Just Black and White: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Immigration, Race and Ethnicity in the United States (New York, 2004)
2. Nancy Foner, From Ellis Island to JFK: New York's Two Great Waves of Immigration (New Haven, CT, 2000)
3. George Fredrickson, The Comparative Imagination: On the History of Racism, Nationalism, and Social Movements (Berkeley, CA, 1997), 65
4. Nancy Green, "Comments on Transnationalism and Diaspora," paper presented at Workshop on Transnational Ties and Identities: Past and Present, Wassenar, Netherlands, November 2002
5. Gary Gerstle and John Mollenkopf, "The Political Incorporation of Immigrants, Then and Now," in Gary Gerstle and John Mollenkopf, eds., E Pluribus Unum? Contemporary and Historical Perspectives on Immigrant Incorporation (New York, 2001), 3
6. Fredrickson, The Comparative Imagination, 23
7. Roger Waldinger, Still the Promised City? African Americans and New Immigrants in Postindustrial New York (Cambridge, MA, 1996)
8. See, for example, Foner, From Ellis Island to JFK; Ewa Morawska, "Immigrants, Transnationalism and Ethnicization: A Comparison of This Great Wave and the Last," in Gerstle and Mollenkopf, eds., E Pluribus Unum? 175-212
9. See Foner, From Ellis Island to JFK
10. Arun Peter Lobo and Joseph Salvo, The Newest New Yorkers 2000 (New York, 2004)
11. See Nancy Foner, In a New Land: A Comparative View of Immigration (New York, 2005)
12. See, for example, Elliot Barkan, "America in the Hand, Homeland in the Heart: Transnational and Translocal Immigrant Experiences in the American West," Western Historical Quarterly (Autumn 2004): 331-54
13. Madeline Hsu, Dreaming of Gold, Dreaming of Home: Transnationalism and Migration Between the United States and South China, 1882-1943 (Stanford, CA, 2000)
14. Foner, In a New Land, chapter 3
15. Alejandro Portes and Rubén Rumbaut, Legacies: The Story of the Immigrant Second Generation (Berkeley, CA, 2001)
16. and "Conclusion - The Forging of a New America: Lessons for Theory and Policy, in Rubén Rumbaut and Alejandro Portes, eds., Ethnicities (Berkeley, CA, 2001), 301-17
17. Also see Alejandro Portes and Min Zhou, "The New Second Generation: Segmented Assimilation and Its Variants among Post-1965 Immigrant Youth," The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences, vol. 530: 74-96
18. Philip Kasinitz, John Mollenkopf, and Mary C. Waters, eds. Becoming New Yorkers: Ethnographies of the New Second Generation (New York, 2004), 396
19. Joel Perlmann and Roger Waldinger, "Second Generation Decline? Children of Immigrants, Past and Present: A Reconsideration," International Migration Review (Winter 1997): 893-923
20. For a recent attempt see Joel Perlmann, Italians Then, Mexicans Now: Immigrant Origins and Second-Generation Progress, 1890-2000 (New York, 2005)
21. Thomas Guglielmo, White on Arrival: Italians, Race, Color, and Power in Chicago, 1890-1945 (New York, 2003)
22. See Foner, In a New Land for a discussion of this issue as well as forecasts about how racial boundaries may change in the future
23. David Roediger and James Barrett. "Making New Immigrants 'Inbetween': Irish Hosts and White Panethnicity, 1890 to 1930," in Foner and Fredrickson, eds. Not Just Black and White
24. Hasia Diner, Lower East Side Memories: A Jewish Place in America (Princeton, 2000)
25. Annelise Orleck, "The Soviet Jews: Life in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn," in Foner, ed., New Immigrants in New York (New York, 1987), 297-300
26. Quote from Sabrina Tavernise, "To Young, A Russian Enclave is Too Much the Old Country," New York Times, October 8, 2003
27. Roediger and Barrett, "Making New Immigrants 'Inbetween,'" passim
28. Matthew Pratt Guterl, The Color of Race in America, 1900-1940 (Cambridge, MA, 2001)
29. Richard Alba and Victor Nee, Remaking the American Mainstream (Cambridge, MA, 2003)
30. Philip Kasinitz, "Race, Assimilation and 'Second Generations,' Past and Present," in Foner and Fredrickson, eds., Not Just Black and White, 281
31. Philip Kasinitz, John Mollenkopf, and Mary C. Waters, "Becoming American/Becoming New Yorkers: Immigrant Incorporation in a Majority Minority City." International Migration Review 36, no. 2 (Winter 2002): 1032
32. See, for example, Foner, In a New Land; Milton Vickerman, Crosscurrents: West Indian Immigrants and Race (New York, 1999)
33. and Mary Waters, Black Identities: West Indian Immigrant Dreams and American Realities (Cambridge, MA, 1999)
34. Robert C. Smith, "Mexicans: Social, Educational, Economic, and Political Problems and Prospects in New York," in Nancy Foner, ed. New Immigrants in New York, rev. ed. (New York, 2001), 286
35. Jose Itzigsohn and Carlos Dore-Cabral, "The Manifold Character of Panethnicity," in Agustin Lao-Montes and Arlene Davila, eds., Mambo Montage: The Latinization of New York (New York, 2001)
36. Johanna Lessinger, From the Ganges to the Hudson (Boston, 1995)
37. Margaret Abraham, Speaking the Unspeakable: Marital Violence among South Asian Immigrants in the United States (New Brunswick, NJ, 2000)
38. Robert C. Smith, "Mexican New York," Presentation at Baruch College School of Public Affairs, New York, April 2004
39. Steven A. Camarota, "Births to Immigrants in America, 1970 to 2002," Backgrounder, Center for Immigration Studies (Washington, DC, July 2005)
40. David Kennedy, "Can We Still Afford to Be a Nation of Immigrants?" Atlantic Monthly (1996), 68
41. Joseph Schumpeter, Imperialism and Social Classes (New York, 1955), 111