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| Genre/Form: | Informational works History Documents d'information |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Joel Perlmann |
| ISBN: | 9780674425057 0674425057 |
| OCLC Number: | 1002821823 |
| Description: | viii, 451 pages : illustration ; 25 cm |
| Contents: | Part One The list of races and peoples -- Creating and refining the list, 1898-1906 -- Immigration - especially European - through the lens of race -- First struggles over the list: the Jewish challenges and the federal defense, 1899-1903 -- The United States Immigration Commission, 1907-1911 -- Urging the list on the U.S. Census Bureau, 1908-1910 -- The Census Bureau goes its own way: race, nationality, mother tongue, 1910-1916 -- Part Two Institutionalizing race distinctions in American immigration law -- The second quota act, 1924 -- Immigration law for white races and others: three episodes -- Part Three The ethnic group: Formulation and diffusion of an American concept, to 1964 -- From "race" to "ethnic group": organizing concepts in American studies of immigrants, to 1964 -- From social science to the federal bureaucracy? Limited diffusion of the "ethnic group" concept through the early 1950s -- Part Four Incorporating the legacies of the Civil Rights Era and mass immigration from the Third World -- Race and the immigrant in federal statistics after 1965 -- Conclusion. |
| Other Titles: | From Ellis Island to the 2020 census |
| Responsibility: | Joel Perlmann. |
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A work of exacting scholarship and exemplary good sense. Perlmann illuminates as no other scholar has the process by which Americans decided how to classify immigrants. His account offers a much richer and more complex picture of the story than is found in any other work of historical writing. -- David A. Hollinger, author of <i>Postethnic America</i> Perlmann transforms our understanding of the history of government efforts to racially classify immigrants to the United States. He unearths a number of fascinating discoveries about a history that many thought was already well-known. His book will be essential reading for all serious scholars of immigration. -- Mara Loveman, author of <i>National Colors</i> We cannot understand America unless we understand race and immigration. To truly comprehend how these two histories overlap and intertwine, we need look no further than the United States government's struggle to define, categorize, and count immigrants and members of racial and ethnic groups. It is Perlmann's brilliant achievement to take what has too often been written as separate stories and tell it as one still unfinished story. -- Kenneth Prewitt, former Director of the United States Census Bureau, 1998-2000, and author of <i>What Is <u>Your</u> Race?</i> A readable and sophisticated discussion of the context of social science thinking about race, ethnicity, and national origins for official statistics on immigrant origins...A panoramic survey. It is a deeply researched and captivating book...Provides rich insights into the ways in which immigrants have been classified in America. -- Barry Edmonston * Population and Development Review * We can learn a lot from [this] book about how conflicting agendas, behemoth ambitions, and unwarranted optimism produced classification schemes that negatively affected the lives of millions of Americans and would-be immigrants. We might do well to pair that knowledge with a stronger sense of humility than our forbearers held as we move forward in our own research. -- Jessica H. Lee * Journal of Urban History * A cogent and compelling analysis of the muddle of meanings embedded in the terms race, peoples, national origins, and mother tongue as used by scholars, politicians, and administrators in the Bureau of Immigration and the U.S. Census Bureau. -- Glenn C. Altschuler * Forward * An insightful examination of how the US adopted and revised categories of immigrants over almost 150 years...Well researched and lucidly presented. * Choice * Perlmann provides us with a brilliant historical account of how Southern and Eastern Europeans, particularly Jews, were thought about, classified, and rendered legible by the state. -- Michael Omi * American Journal of Sociology * A work of deep erudition, impressive for its temporal scope but no less because breadth does not come at the expense of a fine-grained account of governmental classificatory practices. The key episodes selected by the author allow us to probe what it means that immigration policy was propelled by official acts of discrimination...Meticulously written, clear, and provocative-a book not to be missed. -- David Cook-Martin * International Migration Review * Read more...
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- United States. -- Bureau of the Census -- History.
- United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Government policy -- History.
- Race -- Classification -- History.
- Ethnic groups -- Classification -- History.
- Race -- Political aspects -- United States -- History.
- Ethnic groups -- Political aspects -- United States -- History.
- United States -- Race relations -- Political aspects -- History.
- Race -- Classification -- Histoire.
- Groupes ethniques -- Classification -- Histoire.
- Race -- Aspect politique -- États-Unis -- Histoire.
- Groupes ethniques -- Aspect politique -- États-Unis -- Histoire.
- États-Unis -- Relations raciales -- Aspect politique -- Histoire.
- United States. -- Bureau of the Census.
- Emigration and immigration -- Government policy.
- Race -- Political aspects.
- Race relations -- Political aspects.
- United States.
- Etats-Unis. -- Bureau of the census.
- Race -- Classification -- États-Unis -- Histoire.
- Ethnicité -- Classification -- États-Unis -- Histoire.
- Relations interethniques -- Aspect politique -- États-Unis.
- États-Unis -- Émigration et immigration -- Politique publique -- Histoire.
- États-Unis -- Recensement -- Évaluation.
