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SIGNIFICANT BOOKS ON IMMIGRATION, IMMIGRANTS AND ETHNICITY. Alba, Richard. 1985. Italian Americans: Into the Twilight of Ethnicity.

Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall. Richard Alba and Victor Nee. 2003. Remaking the American Mainstream; Assimilation and Contemporary Immigration. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Anderson, Elijah. 1999. The Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City. New York: Norton. Archdeacon, Thomas J. 1983. Becoming American: An Ethnic History. NY: Free Press. Bean, Frank and Gillian Stevens. 2003. Americas Newcomers and the Dynamics of Diversity. New York: Russell Sage. Barton, Josef J. 1975. Peasants and Strangers: Italians, Rumanians, and Slovaks in an American City, 1850-1950. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Bean, Frank and Gillian Stevens. 2003. Americas Newcomers and the Dynamics of Diversity. New York: Russell Sage Foundation. Bloemraad, Irene. 2006. Becoming a Citizen: Incorporating Immigrants in the United States and Canada. Berkeley: University of California Press. Bodnar, John. 1985. The Transplanted: A History of Immigrants in Urban America. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. Borjas, George. 1990. Friends or Strangers: The Impact of Immigration on the U. S. Economy. New York: Basic Books. Borjas, George. 1999. Heavens Door: Immigration Policy and The American Economy. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Bowen, William G., and Derek Bok, 1998. The Shape of the River: Long-Term Consequences of Considering Race in College and University Admissions. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. Cahan, Abraham. 1917. The Rise of David Levinsky. New York: Harper and Brothers. Castles, Stephen and Mark J. Miller. 1998. The Age of Migration. Second edition. New York: The Guilford Press. Chan, Sucheng, ed. 1991. Entry Denied: Exclusion and the Chinese Community in America, 1881-1943 Philadelphia: Temple University 1

Chirot, Daniel and Anthony Reid. 1997. Essential Outsiders: Chinese and Jews in the Modern Transformation of Southeast Asia and Central Europe. Seattle: University of Washington Press. Cinel, Dino. 1982. From Italy to San Francisco: The Immigrant Experience. Stanford: Stanford University Press. Cohen, Robin, ed. 1995. The Cambridge Survey of World Migration. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Cohen, Rose. 1995 [1918]. Out of the Shadow: A Russian Jewish Girlhood on the Lower East Side. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. Crocker, Ruth. 1992. Social Work and Social Order: The Settlement Movement in Two Industrial Cities, 1889-1930. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. Daniels, Roger. 1991. Coming to America: A History of Immigration and Ethnicity in American Life. New York: HarperPerennial. Davis, F. James. 1991. Who is Black? One Nation's Definition. University Park: Penn State Press. Diner, Hasia.1983. Erin's Daughters in America: Irish Immigrant Women in the Nineteenth Century. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. DuBois, W.E.B. 1999 [1899]. The Philadelphia Negro. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. Ebaugh HR, Chafetz JS, eds. 2000b. Religion and the New Immigrants: Continuities and Adaptations in Immigrant Congregations. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Erie, Stephen. 1988. Rainbows End: Irish Americans and the Dilemmas of Urban Machine Politics, 1840-1985. Berkeley: University of California Press. Espiritu, Yen Le. 1992. Asian American Panethnicity: Bridging Institutions and Identities. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. Espiritu, Yen Le. 1997. Asian American Women and Men. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. Fadiman A. 1998. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong child, her American doctors and the collision of two cultures. New York: Noonday Fischer, David Hackett. 1989. Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America. New York: 2

Oxford University Press. Foner, Nancy. 2000. From Ellis Island to JFK: New Yorks Two Great Waves of Immigration. New Haven: Yale University Press. Foner, Nancy, ed. 2001. Islands in the Sun: West Indian Migration to New York: Berkeley: University of California Press. Foner, Nancy, ed. 2001. New Immigrants in New York. Completely revised and updated edition. New York: Columbia University Press. Frazier. E. Franklin. 1932. The Negro Family in Chicago. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Frazier. E. Franklin. 1957. Race and Culture Contacts in the Modern World. New York: Knopf. Fredrickson, George M. 1987. The Black Image in the White Mind: The Debate on Afro American Character and Destiny, 1817-1914. Middletown, Conn. Fredrickson, George M. 1981. White Supremacy: A Comparative Study in American and South African History. New York. Fredrickson, George M. 2002. Racism: A Short History. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Fuchs, Lawrence H. 1990. The American Kaleidoscope: Race: Ethnicity and Civic Culture. Hanover: Wesleyan University Press. Gabaccia, Donna. 1984. From Sicily to Elizabeth Street: Housing and Social Change Among Italian Immigrants, 1880-1930. Albany: SUNY Press. Gabaccia, Donna. 1994. From the Other Side: Women, Gender, and Immigrant life in the U.S., 1820-1990. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. Garner, Steve. 2004. Racism and the Irish Experience. London: Pluto Press. Gibson, Margaret. 1988. Accommodation without Assimilation: Sikh Immigrants in an American High School. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. Glazer, Nathan and Daniel P. Moynihan. 1970. Beyond the Melting Pot: The Negroes, Puerto Ricans, Jews, Italians, and Irish of New York City. Cambridge: MIT Press. Gordon, Milton. 1964. Assimilation in American Life. New York: Oxford University Press.

Gould, Stephen Jay. 1996. The Mismeasure of Man. Revised and expanded edition. New York: Norton. Gregory, James N. 2005. The Southern Diaspora: How the Great Migrations of Black and White Southerners Changed America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. Haddad YY, Smith JI, Esposito JL, eds. 2003. Religion and Immigration: Christian, Jewish, and Muslim Experiences in the United States. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Hamermesh, Dennis S. and Frank D. Bean. 1998. Help or Hindrance? The Economic Implications of Immigration for African Americans. New York: Russell Sage. Handlin, Oscar. 1957. Race and Nationality in American Life. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. Handlin, Oscar. 1973. The Uprooted. Second Edition. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. Hatton, Timothy J. and Jeffrey G. Williamson. 1998. The Age of Mass Migration: Causes and Economic Impact. New York: Oxford University Press. Higham, John. 1988. Strangers in the Land: Patterns of American Nativism, 1860-1925. 2nd. ed. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press. Hoerder, Dirk, ed. 1986. Struggle a Hard Battle: Essays on Working-Class Immigrants. DeKalb, Ill.: Northern Illinois University Press. Hoerder, Dirk, ed. 1985. Labor Migration in the Atlantic Economies, the European and North American Working Classes during the Period of Industrialization. Westport: Greenwood. Howe, Irving. 1976. World of Our Fathers: The Journey of Eastern European Jews to America and the Life They Found and Made. New York: Simon and Shuster. Hutchinson, E.P. 1956. Immigrants and Their Children: 1850-1950. Census Monograph. New York: John Wiley. Jasso, Guillermina and Mark R. Rosenzweig. 1990. The New Chosen People: Immigrants in the United States. New York: Russell Sage. Jaynes, Gerald and Robin Williams. eds. 1989.A Common Destiny: Blacks and American Society. Washington, D.C.: National Research Council. Kasinitz, Philip. 1992. Caribbean New York: Black Immigrants and the Politics of Race. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.

Kasinitz, Philip, John Mollenkopf, and Mary Waters. 2004. Becoming New Yorkers: Ethnographies of the New Second Generation. New York: Russell Sage Foundation. Kessner, Thomas. 1977. The Golden Door: Italian and Jewish Immigrant Mobility in New York City, 1880-1915. New York: Oxford University Press. Kraut, Alan. 1986. The Huddled Masses: the Immigrant in American Society, 1880-1921. Arlington Heights, Ill.: Harlan Davidson. Lemann, Nicholas. 1991. The Promised Land: The Great Migration and How it Changed America. New York: Knopf. Levitt, Peggy. 2001. The Transnational Villagers. Berkeley: University of California Press. Levitt, Peggy. 2007. God Needs No Passport: Immigrants and the Changing American Religious Landscape. New York: The New Press Lieberson, Stanley. 1963. Ethnic Patterns in American Cities. Glencoe: Free Press. Lieberson, Stanley and Mary C. Waters. 1988. From Many Strands: Ethnic and Racial Groups in the United States. New York: Russell Sage Foundation. Light, Ivan. 1972. Ethnic Enterprise in America; Business and Welfare among Chinese, Japanese, and Blacks. Berkeley, University of California Press. Light, Ivan and Edna Bonacich. 1988. Immigrant Entrepreneurs: Koreans in Los Angeles, 1965-1982. Berkeley: University of California Press. Light, Ivan.2006. Deflecting Immigration: Networks, Markets and Regulation in Los Angeles. NY: Russell Sage Foundation. Lissak, Rivka Shpak. 1989. Pluralism & Progressives: Hull House and the New Immigrants, 1890-1919. Chicago: University of Chicago. Massey, Douglas et al. 1987. Return to Aztlan: The Social Processes of International Migration from Western Mexico. Berkeley: University of California Press. Massey, Douglas and Nancy Denton. 1993. American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Massey, Douglas et al. 1998. Worlds in Motion: Understanding International Migration at the End of the Millennium. Oxford University Press. Menjvar Celia. 2000. Fragmented Ties: Salvadoran Immigrant Networks in America. Berkeley: Univ. Calif. Press. 5

Min, Pyong Gap. 1996. Caught in the Middle; Korean Merchants in Americas Multiethnic Cities. Berkeley: University of California Press. Min, Pyong Gap, ed. 2002. Mass Migration to the United States: Classical and Contemporary Periods. Walnut Creek, CA: Altmira Press. Morawska, Ewa. 1996. Insecure Prosperity: Small Town Jews in Industrial America, 18901940. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Muller, Thomas. 1993. Immigrants and the American City. New York: New York University Press. Nagel, Joane. 1996. American Indian Ethnic Renewal: Red Power and the Resurgence of Identity and Culture. New York: Oxford University Press. Nobles, Melissa. 2000. Shades of Citizenship: Race and the Census in Modern Politics. Stanford: Stanford University Press. Nugent, Walter. 1992. Crossings: The Great Transatlantic Migrations, 1870-1914. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. Perlmann, Joel. 1988. Ethnic Differences: Schooling and Social Structure among the Irish, Italian, Jews, and Blacks in an American City, 1880-1935. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Perlmann, Joel and Mary C. Waters, eds. 2002. The New Race Question: How the Census Counts Multiracial Individuals. New York: Russell Sage Foundation. Portes, Alejandro, ed. 1995. The Economic Sociology of Immigration: Essays on Networks, Ethnicity, and Entrepreneurship. New York: Russell Sage Foundation. Portes, Alejandro, ed. 1996. The New Second Generation. New York: Russell Sage Foundation. Portes, Alejandro and Robert L. Bach. 1985. Latin Journey: Cuban and Mexican Immigrants in the United States. Berkeley: University of California Press. Portes, Alejandro and Ruben G. Rumbaut. 2001. Legacies: The Story of the Immigrant Second Generation. Berkeley: University of California Press. Portes, Alejandro and Ruben G. Rumbaut. 2006. Immigrant America: A Portrait. Third edition. Berkeley: University of California Press. Pritchett, Lant. 2006. Let Their People Come: Breaking the Gridlock on Global Labor 6

Mobility. Washington, D.C.: Center for Global Development. Rieder, Jonathan. 1985. Canarsie: The Jews and Italians of Brooklyn Against Liberalism. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Reimers, David M. 1992. Unwelcome Strangers: American Identity and the Turn Against Immigration. New York: Columbia University Press. Reimers, David M. 1998. Still the Golden Door: The Third World Comes to America. Second edition. New York: Columbia University Press. Reitz, Jeffrey. 1998. Warmth of Welcome: The Social Causes of Economic Success for Immigrants in Different Nations and Cities. Westview Press. Rodriguez, Clara. 2000. Changing Race: Latinos, the Census, and the History of Ethnicity in the United States. New York: New York University Press. Ruben G. Rumbaut and Alejandro Portes. 2001. Ethnicities: Children of Immigrants in America. Berkeley: University of California Press Snchez, George J. 1993. Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900-1945. NY: Oxford University Press. Sanjek, Roger. 1998. The Future of Us All: Race and Neighborhood Politics in New York City. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. Schuman, Howard, Charlotte Steeh, Lawrence Bobo, and Maria Krysan. 1997. Racial Attitudes in America: Trends and Interpretation Revised edition. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Skeldon, Ronald. 1997. Migration and Development: A Global Interpretation. London: Longman. Smith James P. and Barry Edmonston, eds.1997. The New Americans: Economic, Demographic, and Fiscal Impacts of Immigration. Washington, DC National Academy Press. Smith, Robert Courtney. 2006. Mexican New York: Transnational Lives of New Immigrants. Berkeley: University of California Press. Snipp, C. Matthew. 1989. American Indians: The First of this Land. New York: Russell Sage. Sorin, Gerald. 1985. The Prophetic Minority: American Jewish Immigrant Radicals, 18801920. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 7

Stier, Haya and Marta Tienda. 2001. The Color of Opportunity: Pathways to Family, Welfare, and Work. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Suttles, Gerald. 1968. The Social Order of the Slum. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Edward Telles. 2004. Race in Another America: The Significance of Skin Color in Brazil. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Tienda, Marta and Faith Mitchell. 2006. Multiple Origins, Uncertain Destinies: Hispanics and the American Future. Washington, D.C.: National Research Council. Tienda, Marta and Faith Mitchell. Eds. 2006. Hispanics and the Future of America. Washington, D.C.: National Research Council Tolnay, Stewart and E. M. Beck. 1999. A Festival of Violence: An Analysis of the Lynching of African-Americans in the American South, 1882-1930. University of Illinois Press. Tolnay, Stewart. 1999. The Bottom Rung: African American Family Life on Southern Farms. University of Illinois Press. Vecoli, Rudolph J. and Suzanne Sinke, eds. 1991. A Century of European Migrations, 18301930. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. Waldinger, Roger. 1996. Still the Promised City? African Americans and New Immigrants in Postindustrial New York. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Waldinger, Roger, ed. 2001. Strangers at the Gates: New Immigrants in Urban America. Berkeley: University of California Press. Waters, Mary C. 1990. Ethnic Options: Choosing Identities in America. Berkeley : University of California Press. Waters, Mary. 1999. Black Identities: West Indian Immigrant Dreams and American Realities. New York: Russell Sage and Harvard University Press. Weber, Eugene. 1976. Peasants into Frenchmen: The Modernization of Rural France, 18701914. Stanford: Stanford University Press. World Bank. 2006 Global Economic Prospects 2006: Economic Implications of Remittances and Migration. Washington, D.C. : World Bank. Wyman, Mark. 1993. Round-trip to America: The Immigrants Return to Europe, 1880-1930. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.

Yans-McLaughlin, Virginia, ed. 1990. Immigration Reconsidered: History, Sociology and Politics. New York: Oxford University Press. Zhou, Min 1992. Chinatown: The Socioeconomic Potential of the Urban Enclave. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. Zhou, Min and Carl L Bankston III. 1998. Growing Up American: How Vietnamese Children Adapt to American Life in the United States. New York Russell Sage. (paperback). Zolberg, Aristide R. 2006. A Nation by Design: Immigration Policy in the Fashioning of America. Cambridge: Harvard University Press and the Russell Sage Foundation.

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