1. Orm Øverland, Immigrant Minds, American Identities (Urbana, IL: University of Illinois UP, 2000) 2. Nancy Foner and George Fredrikson, Eds., Not Just Black and White: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Immigration, Race and Ethnicity in the United States (New York: 2004) 3. Hugh Davis Graham, Collision Course: The Strange Convergence of Affirmative Action and Immigration Policy in America (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2002) 4. Roger Daniels, Guarding the Golden Door: American Immigration Policy since 1882 (New York, Hill and Wang, 2004) 5. Mae M. Ngai, Impossible Subjects: Illegal aliens and the Making of Modern America (Princeton UP, 2004)
A compendium of recent path-breaking scholarly articles from the Journal of American Ethnic History and other central research periodicals
Richard Alba, “Immigration and the Realities of Assimilation and Multiculturalism” in Sociological Forum Vol. 14, 3-25.
Kathleen Niels Conzen, “Thomas and Znaniecki and the Historiography of American Immigration,” in Journal of American Ethnic History (JAEH), Fall 1996, Vol, 16:16-25. Orm Øverland, “Becoming White in 1881: An Immigrant Acquires an American Identity,” in Journal of American Ethnic History (JAEH), Summer 2000, Vol 23:132-141. Richard D. Alba, “The transformation of Ethnicity among Americans of European Ancestries,” chapter 1 in Ethnic Identity: The Transformation of White America (Yale University Press,: New Haven and London, 1990) 1-36 and 337-340.
James R. Barrett and David Roediger, “The Irish and the ‘Americanization’ of the ‘New Immigrants’ in the Streets and in the Churches of the Urban United States, 1900-1930” in Journal of American Ethnic History (JAEH), Summer 2000, Vol 19:4, 3-23.
Josh De Wind and Philip Kasinitz, “”Everything Old is New Again? Processes and Theories of Immigrant Incorporation” in International Migration Review Vol 31, 1096-1111.
Leonard Dinnerstein and David M. Reimers, “John Higham and Immigration History” in Journal of American Ethnic History (JAEH), Summer 2000, Vol 19:4, 3-23.
Donna R. Gabaccia, “Is Everywhere Nowhere? Nomads, Nations, and the Immigrant Paradigm in United States History” in the Journal of American History, Vol 84, 1115-1134.
David A. Gerber, “Epistolary Ethnics: Personal Correspondence and the Culture of Emigration in the Nineteenth Century” in JAEH, Summer 2000, Vol 19:4, 3-23.
Gary Gerstel, “Liberty, Coercion and the Making of Americans” in the Journal of American History, Vol 84, 524-58.
Jeffrey S. Gruok, “A Stage in the Emergence of the Americanized Synagogue among East European Jews; 1890-1910” in JAEH, Spring 1990, Vol. 9:2, 7-25.
Karen Leonard, “American Muslims and Authority: Competing discourses in a Non-Muslim State” in JAEH, Fall 2005, Vol 25:1, 5-30.