Almost All Aliens: Immigration, Race, and Colonialism in American History and Identity

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Almost All Aliens offers a unique reinterpretation of immigration in the history of the United States. Leaving behind the traditional melting-pot model of immigrant assimilation, Paul Spickard puts forward a fresh and provocative reconceptualization that embraces the multicultural reality of immigration that has always existed in the United States. His astute study illustrates the complex relationship between ethnic identity and race, slavery, and colonial expansion. Examining not only the lives of those who crossed the Atlantic, but also those who crossed the Pacific, the Caribbean, and the North American Borderlands, Almost All Aliens provides a distinct, inclusive analysis of immigration and identity in the United States from 1600 until the present. Book Cover......Page 1 Title......Page 4 Copyright......Page 5 Contents......Page 10 Acknowledgments......Page 14 Preface......Page 18 Chapter 1 Immigration, Race, Ethnicity, Colonialism......Page 22 Chapter 2 Colliding Peoples in Eastern North America, 1600–1780......Page 50 Chapter 3 An Anglo-American Republic? Racial Citizenship, 1760–1860......Page 100 Chapter 4 The Border Crossed Us: Euro-Americans Take the Continent, 1830–1900......Page 150 Chapter 5 The Great Wave, 1870–1930......Page 192 Chapter 6 Cementing Hierarchy: Issues and Interpretations, 1870–1930......Page 248 Chapter 7 White People’s America, 1924–1965......Page 312 Chapter 8 New Migrants from New Places Since 1965......Page 362 Chapter 9 Redefining Membership Amid Multiplicity Since 1965......Page 412 Chapter 10 Epilogue: Future Uncertain Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century......Page 450 Appendices......Page 486 Notes......Page 540 Illustration Permission Acknowledgments......Page 688 Also by Paul Spickard......Page 692 Index......Page 694