Meaghan Dwyer
Professor O’Toole
List for comps: American Immigration and Ethnicity
December 2, 2003
I. General Works
Archdeacon, Thomas. Becoming American: An Ethnic History. London: Collier-Macmillan,
1983.
Bodnar, John. The Transplanted: A History of Immigrants in Urban America. Bloomington, IN:
Indiana University Press, 1985.
Daniels, Roger. Coming to America: A History of Immigration and Ethnicity in American Life.
New York: Harper Collins, 1990.
Dinnerstein, Leonard and David Reimers. Ethnic Americans: A History of Immigration. New
York: Columbia University Press, 1988.
Handlin, Oscar. The Uprooted: The Epic Story of the Great Migrations that Made the American
People. Boston: Little, Brown, 1951.
II. The Migration Process
Hoerder, Dirk and Jorg Nagler. People in Transit: German Migration in Comparative
Perspective, 1820-1930.
Miller, Kerby A. Emigrants and Exiles: Ireland and the Irish Exodus to North America. New
York: Oxford University Press, 1985.
Nugent, Walter. Crossings: The Great Transatlantic Migrations, 1870-1914. Bloomington, IN:
Indiana University Press, 1992.
III. Theories: Nativism, Americanization, ethnicity, assimilation, and cultural pluralism
Anbinder, Tyler. Nativism and Slavery: The Northern Know-Nothings and the Politics of the
1850s (New York, 1992).
Gjerde, Jon. “New Growth on Old Vines—The State of the Field: The Social History of
Immigration to and Ethnicity in the United States,” Journal of American Ethnic History 18.4
(Summer 1999): 40-65.
Higham, John. Strangers in the Land: Patterns of American Nativism, 1860-1925 (Second
Edition). New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1988.
Kallen, Horace M. “Democracy Versus the Melting Pot,” The Nation 100.2590 (18 Feb. 1915):
190-4; 100.2591 (25 Feb. 1915): 217-20.
Kazal, Russell. “Revisiting Assimilation: The Rise, Fall, and Reappraisal of a Concept in
American Ethnic History,” American Historical Review, 100.2 (April 1995): 437-471.
Kivisto, Peter. “The Transplanted Then and Now: The Reorientation of Immigration Studies
from the Chicago School to the New Social History,” Ethnic and Racial Studies 13.4 (1990):
455-81.
Vecoli, Rudoph. “Contadini in Chicago: A Critique of the Uprooted,” The Journal of American
History 51.3 (December 1964): 404-417.
IV. Race, Labor, and Gender Relations
Barrett, James R. “Americanization from the Bottom Up: Immigration and the Remaking of the
Working Class in the United States, 1880-1930” Journal of American History 79.3 Discovering
America: A Special Issue (Dec 1992): 996-1020.
Barrett, James R. and David Roediger. “Inbetween Peoples: Race, Nationality, and the ‘New
Immigrant’ Working Class,” Journal of American Ethnic History 16.3 (Spring 1997): 3-44.
Brodkin, Karen. How the Jews Became White Folks and What That Says About Race in America.
Cohen, Lizabeth. Making A New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1990.
Gerstle, Gary, Working-Class Americanism: the Politics of Labor in a Textile City, 1914-1960
(New York, 1989).
Gerstle, Gary. American Crucible: Race and Nation in the Twentieth Century.
Glenn, Evelyn Nakano. Issei, Nisei, War Bride: Three Generations of Japanese American
Women in Domestic Service. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1986.
Glenn, Susan. Daughters of the Shtetl. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1990.
Halter, Marilyn. Between Race and Ethnicity: Cape Verdean American Immigrants, 1860-1965.
(1993).
Ignatiev, Noel. How the Irish Became White. New York: Routledge, 1995. review
Jacobson, Matthew Frye. Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy
of Race (1998).
Kenny, Kevin, Making Sense of the Molly Maguires. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.
Morawska, Ewa, For Bread with Butter: The Life Worlds of East Central Europeans in
Johnstown, Pennsylvania 1890-1940 (1985).
Morawska, Ewa. Insecure Prosperity: Small-Town Jews in Industrial America, 1890-1940.
(1996).
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Peiss, Kathy. Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in Turn-of-the-Century New
York (Philadelphia, 1986).
Roediger, David. The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class
(1991).
Rosenzweig, Roy. Eight Hours For What We Will: Workers and Leisure in an Industrial City,
1870-1920. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983.
V. Urban life and culture
Bernstein, Iver. The New York City Draft Riots: Their Significance for American Society and
Politics in the Age of the Civil War. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.
Deutsch, Sarah, Women and the City: Gender, Space and Power in Boston, 1870-1940. New
York: Oxford University Press, 2000.
Ernst, Robert. Immigrant Life in New York City, 1825-1863. New York: Octagon Books, 1979.
Connolly, James J. The Triumph of Ethnic Progressivism: Urban Political Culture in Boston,
1900-1925. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998.
Conzen, Kathleen Neils. “Ethnicity as Festive Culture: Nineteenth-Century German Americans
on Parade,” in Sollors, Werner, ed. The Invention of Ethnicity. New York: Oxford UP, 1989.
Erie, Stephen P. Rainbow’s End: Irish-Americans and the Dilemmas of Urban Machine Politics,
1840-1985 (Berkeley, 1989).
Gamm, Gerald. Urban Exodus: Why the Jews Left Boston and the Catholics Stayed. Cambridge,
MA: Harvard University Press, 1999.
Glazer, Nathan and Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Beyond the Melting Pot: The Negroes, Puerto
Ricans, Jews, Italians, and Irish of New York City (Cambridge, MA: MIT University Press)
1963.
Gleeson, David T. The Irish in the South, 1815-1877. Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 2001.
Handlin, Oscar. Boston's Immigrants: A Study in Acculturation, 1790-1880, 2nd ed. Cambridge,
MA: Harvard University Press, 1959.
Hapgood, Hutchins. Spirit of the Ghetto: Studies of the Jewish Quarter of New York. New York:
Funk and Wagnalls Co., Inc., 1902, 1965.
Howe, Irving. World of our Fathers. (1976).
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Meagher, Timothy J. “Why Should We Care for a Little Trouble or a Walk Through the Mud?
St. Patrick’s and Columbus Day Parades in Worchester, Massachusetts, 1845-1915” The New
England Quarterly, 58. 1 (March 1985): 5-26.
Nadel, Stanley. Little Germany: Ethnicity, Religion, and Class in New York City, 1845-80.
Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1990.
Riis, Jacob. How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York. New York:
Museum of the City of New York, 1971.
Rischin, Moses. The Promised City: New York’s Jews, 1870-1914. Cambridge: Harvard
University Press, 1977 (second edition).
Rogin, Michael. Blackface, White Noise: Jewish Immigrants in the Hollywood Melting Pot.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996.
Thernstrom, Steven. Poverty and Progress: Social Mobility in a Nineteenth Century City (1964)
Thernstrom, Steven. The Other Bostonians: Poverty and Progress in the American Metropolis
VI. Religion
Dolan, Jay. The Immigrant Church: New York’s Irish and German Catholics, 1815-1865.
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University, 1976.
Dolan, Jay P. The American Catholic Experience: A History from Colonial Times to the Present.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1985.
Ellis, John Tracey. American Catholicism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1956.
Glazer, Nathan. American Judaism. Second Edition with a New Introduction. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 1957, 1972.
Hennessey, James, S.J. American Catholics: A History of the Roman Catholic Community in the
United States. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1981.
Herberg, Will, Protestant, Catholic, Jew: An Essay in American Religious Sociology (1960)
Hudson, Winthrop S. American Protestantism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1961.
Kaufman, David. A Shul With A Pool: The “Synagogue Center” in American Jewish History
(Hanover, NH, 1999).
McGreevy, John T. Parish Boundaries: The Catholic Encounter with Race in the TwentiethCentury Urban North (Chicago, 1996).
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Moloney, Deirdre. American Catholic Lay Groups and Transatlantic Social Reform in the
Progressive Era. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002.
Orsi, Robert, The Madonna of 115th Street: Faith and Community in Italian Harlem (1985)
VII. Memory, identity, and diaspora
Diner, Hasia. Lower East Side Memories: A Jewish Place in America (2000).
Halter, Marilyn. Shopping for Identity: The Marketing of Ethnicity (New York, 2000).
Heinze, Andrew. Adapting to Abundance: Jewish Immigrants, Mass Consumption and the
Search for American Identity. New York: Columbia University Press, 1990.
Jacobson, Matthew Frye. Special Sorrows: The Diasporic Imagination of Irish, Polish, and
Jewish Immigrants in the United States. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995.
Kenny, Kevin. “The American Irish in Global Perspective” Journal of American History 90.1
(June 2003): 134-162.
Kivisto, Peter, and Dag, Blanck, ed., American Immigrants and Their Generations: Studies and
Commentaries on Hansen Thesis after Fifty (1990).
Meagher, Timothy J. Inventing Irish America: Generation, Class, and Ethnic Identity in a New
England City, 1880-1928. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2001.
Miller, Kerby, “Class, Culture, and Immigrant Group Identity in the United States: The Case of
Irish-American Ethnicity,” in Virginia Yans-McLaughlin, ed., Immigration Reconsidered:
History, Sociology, and Politics. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.
Moynihan, Kenneth D. “History as a Weapon for Social Advancement: Group History as Told
by Irish, and Black Americans, 1892-1950,” Ph.D. dissertation, Clark University, 1973.
Wenger, Beth S. “Memory as Identity: The Invention of the Lower East Side” American Jewish
History 85 (1997): 3-27.
VIII. Role of Non-European Immigrants; Changing Immigration Policies and Politics
Foner, Nancy. From Ellis Island to JFK: New York’s Two Great Waves of Immigration.
Gyory, Andrew. Closing the Gate: Race, Politics, and the Chinese Exclusion Act. Chapel Hill,
NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1998.
Jacobson, Matthew Frye. Barbarian Virtues: The U.S. Encounters Foreign Peoples at Home and
Abroad, 1876-1917 (2000).
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Reimers, David. Still the Golden Door: The Third World Comes to America (1985).
Sanchez, George. Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture, and Identity in Chicano Los
Angeles, 1900-1945.
Takaki, Ronald, Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans. (Boston,
1998).
Glenn, Susan. Daughters of the Shtetl. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1990.
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