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Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-03-26 - Publisher: Harvard University Press
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Language: en
Pages: 465
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-03-26 - Publisher: Harvard University Press
When more than twenty million immigrants arrived in the United States between 1880 and 1920, the government attempted to classify them according to prevailing i
Language: en
Pages: 405
Pages: 405
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-04-22 - Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation
Immigration is one of the driving forces behind social change in the United States, continually reshaping the way Americans think about race and ethnicity. How
Language: en
Pages: 353
Pages: 353
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-04-27 - Publisher: Princeton University Press
Conventionally, US immigration history has been understood through the lens of restriction and those who have been barred from getting in. In contrast, The Good
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Pages: 270
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