MONASH UNIVERSITY FACULTY HANDBOOKS

Arts Graduate Handbook 1996

Authorised by Academic Registrar, April 1996

HYM4240

The immigrant experience in the United States

Not offered in 1996

Tony Wood and Elaine Barry

Synopsis This subject will examine the diverse experiences of waves of immigrants to and within the United States from the 1700s to the late twentieth century. Individual and group experiences will be explored through fiction, music, art and historical works. Groups will include Africans, Asians, Hispanics, Jews, Slavs and Irish. The immigrant experience is a critical part of the making of American culture and society. It has helped to define the American national identity, social polity and the American dream. Exploring the ideas and actions of American immigrants will enable us to examine the interactions of race, class and gender.

Assessment (8 points) Written (6000 words): 100%

Assessment (12 points) Written (9000 words): 100%

Recommended texts

• Brown W and Ling A (eds) Visions of America: Personal narratives from the promised land Persea Books, 1993
• Dinnerstein L and others Natives and strangers: Blacks, Indians and immigrants in America OUP
• Hareven T K and Langenbach R Amoskeag: Life and work in an American factory-city
• How I found America: Collected stories of Anzia Yezierska Persea Books, 1991
• Howe I The world of our fathers: The journey of East European Jews to America and the life they found and made 1976
• Irons P Justice at war: The story of the Japanese American internment cases OUP, 1984
• Kingston M China men