The immigrant experience in the United States
Not offered in 1997
Tony Wood and Elaine Barry
8 or 12 points
* One 2-hour seminar per week
* Clayton
Objectives Students successfully completing this subject should develop detailed understanding of the experience and impact of immigrants in the United States, and knowledge of the key conceptual and theoretical issues involved in the study of immigration and ethnicity in American society.
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 fourth year (8 points) Written (6000 words): 100%
Assessment fourth year (12 points) Written (9000 words): 100%
Assessment fifth year (8 points) Written (6000 words): 100%
Assessment fifth year (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, 1990
Hareven T K and Langenbach R Amoskeag: Life and work in an American factory-city CUP, 1978
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 Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1976
Irons P Justice at war: The story of the Japanese American internment cases OUP, 1984
Kingston M China men Knopf, 1980
Yans-McLaughlin V (ed.) Immigration reconsidered: History, sociology and politics OUP, 1990
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