America classifies the immigrants : from Ellis Island to the 2020 census /

When more than twenty million immigrants arrived in the United States between 1880 and 1920, the government attempted to classify them according to prevailing ideas about race and nationality. But this proved hard to do. Ideas about racial or national difference were slippery, contested, and yet con...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Perlmann, Joel (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2018.
Temas:
United States. > Bureau of the Census > History.
United States. > Bureau of the Census.
Race > Classification > History.
Ethnic groups > Classification > History.
Race > Political aspects > United States > History.
Ethnic groups > Political aspects > United States > History.
Race > Classification > Histoire.
Groupes ethniques > Classification > Histoire.
Race > Aspect politique > États-Unis > Histoire.
Groupes ethniques > Aspect politique > États-Unis > Histoire.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Emigration & Immigration.
HISTORY > United States > 19th Century.
Emigration and immigration > Government policy.
Race > Political aspects.
Race relations > Political aspects.
United States > Emigration and immigration > Government policy > History.
United States > Race relations > Political aspects > History.
États-Unis > Relations raciales > Aspect politique > Histoire.
United States.
Electronic books.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Creating and refining the list, 1898-1906
  • Immigration-especially European-through the lens of race
  • Struggle over the list: the Jewish challenges and the federal defense, 1898-1910
  • 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, 1910-1913
  • The second quota act, 1924
  • Immigration law for white races and others: three episodes
  • From "race" to "ethnic group": organizing concepts in American studies of immigrants, 1890-1960
  • From social science to the federal bureaucracy?: limited diffusion of the "ethnic group" concept through the early 1950s
  • Race and the immigrant in federal statistics after 1965.

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