Seth Meehan
U.S. Immigration/Ethnic Identity
Prof. Kenny
General
Bodner, John, The Transplanted: A History of Immigrants in Urban America
Foner, Nancy, From Ellis Island to JFK: New York’s Two Great Waves of Immigration
Gabaccia, Donna, “‘Is Everywhere No Where?’ Nomads, Nations, and the Immigrant Paradigm of
American History.” Journal of American History, 89 (December 1999)
Kenny, Kevin, “Diaspora and Comparison: The Global Irish as a Case Study,” Journal of
American History , 90
Handlin, Oscar, The Uprooted: The Epic Story of the Great Migrations that Made the American
People
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)
Lee, Erika, “A Nation of Immigrants and a Gatekeeping Nation: American Immigration Law and
Policy,” in Reed Ueda, ed., A Companion to American Immigration
Miller, Kerby, Emigrants and Exiles: Ireland and the Irish Exodus to North America
Ngai, Mae, Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America
Ngai, Mae, “The Architecture of Race in American Immigration Law: A Reexamination of the
Immigration Act of 1924,” Journal of American History , 86 (June 1999)
Vecoli, Rudoph, “Contadini in Chicago: A Critique of the Uprooted,” The Journal of American
History 51:3 (December, 1964)
Ueda, Reed, Postwar Immigrant America: A Social History
Ethnicity
Archdeacon, Thomas, Becoming American: An Ethnic History
Breen, T.H., “Creative Adaptations: Peoples and Cultures in Early America,” in J. P. Greene and
J. Pole, eds., Colonial British America: Essays in the New History of the Early Modern
Era
Conzen, Kathleen Neils, David A. Gerber, Ewa Morawska, George E. Pozzetta, and Rudolph J.
Vecoli, “The Invention of Ethnicity in the United States,” in Reed Ueda, ed., A
Companion to American Immigration

Reading List, US Immigration/Ethnic Identity, minor field
Halter, Marilyn, Shopping for Identity: The Market of Ethnicity
Halter, Marilyn, "Ethnic and Racial Identity," in Reed Ueda, ed., A Companion to American
Immigration
Hollinger, Daniel, Postethnic America: Beyond Multiculturalism
Kettner, James, “The Creation of Citizenship in the American Colonies and Early U.S.” in Reed
Ueda, ed., A Companion to American Immigration
Mann, Arthur, “Creation of American Identity in the Late Eighteenth Century” in Reed Ueda, ed.,
A Companion to American Immigration
Sanchez, George, "Creating the Multicultural Nation: Adventures in Post-Nationalist American
Studies in the 1990s," in Post-Nationalist American Studies , ed. John Carlos Rowe
Schlesinger, Jr., Arthur M. The Disuniting of America: Reflections on a Multicultural Society
Sollors, Werner, Beyond Ethnicity: Consent and Descent in American Culture
Assimilation/Nativism
Anbinder, Tyler, Nativism and Slavery: The Northern Know Nothings and the Politics of the
1850s
Gerstle, Gary, “Liberty, Coercion, and the Making of Americans,” Journal of American History ,
84 (September 1997)
Higham, John, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of American Nativism, 1860-1925
Kazal, Russell, “Revisiting Assimilation: The Rise, Fall, and Reappraisal of a Concept in
American Ethnic History,” American Historical Review , 100 (April 1995)
Kenny, Kevin, Making Sense of the Molly Maguires
Perdue, Theda and Michael D. Green, The Cherokee Removal: A Brief History with Documents
Topp, Michael Miller, The Sacco and Vanzetti Case: A Brief History with Documents
Nativism/Whiteness
Arnesen, Eric, “Whiteness and the Historians’ Imagination,” International Labor and Working-
Class History , 60 (Fall 2001)
Fields, Barbara, “Whiteness, Racism, and Identity,” International Labor and Working-Class
History , 60 (Fall 2001)
Jacobson, Matthew, Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy of
Race

Reading List, US Immigration/Ethnic Identity, minor field
Kenny, Kevin, "Twenty Years of Irish American Historiography," in Journal of American Ethnic
History, 28.4 (Summer 2009)
Roediger, David, The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class
Ethnic Groups
* Chinese
Kwong, Peter, The New Chinatown
Lee, Erika, At America’s Gates: Chinese Immigration During the Exclusion Era, 1882-1943
* Japanese
Daniels, Roger, Prisoners without Trial: Japanese Americans in World War II
Murray, Alice Yang, What did Internment of Japanese Americans Mean?
* Mexican
Etulian, Richard, César Chávez: A Brief History with Documents . Boston
Sánchez, George, Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture and Identity in Chicano Los
Angeles, 1900-1945