History of immigration to the United States

discrimination occurred, and what changed to where Italians become a much more accepted group in the United States, even so much as earning the title of "white?" I'm interested to discover how Anti-Italian sentiment rose and feel in pre-war, wartime, and post-war America. I also want to understand how Italian Americans create a racial identity for themselves after they…

prosper and sorrow and hard times shall flee away.”1 This quote represents the ideals of just one of the several influential political movements in the United States. This paper will discuss a few of these successful movements and the impact they have had on history. All documents provided in this essay are documents found in Exploring American Histories. This paper will focus on two documents discussing farmer’s rights, one document discussing racial discrimination, and one document discussing…

Illegal Immigration In ''Illegal Immigrants Should Be Put on a Path to Earned Citizenship'' The author talks about a policy that was passed that ,if they are a potential illegal immigrant with no felony charges or misdemeanors , the local police does not have to hold them. This allows for the good immigrants to still have freedom without being deported without reason. In many community's the police are abusing their power and taking many 'suspected' illegal immigrants so for the policy to…

social hierarchy through the scope of the historical, economic, and social foundations of the Chinese American community. The new social hierarchy was revealed after the 1965 Immigration Act. Zhao gathered her information through a variety of methods including census statistics, archival material and a wide collection of oral histories and face-to-face interviews. She uses class analyses to shed light on the difficulties in the inner workings and internal dynamics of the Chinese American…

Education is also stressed in order to find a job that offers stability and security as well as enough money to live a comfortable life. This stems from their parents not wanting their children to be losers, find success, and so that their immigration to the United States was not a waste of time. But an interesting thing that I found within all of…

It 's a great honor to stand in front of you, fellow classmates, to convey the truth about hatred which pounds away at the infrastructure of the U.S(Personification) . Hatred has affected the lives of millions of people in the USA, especially African Americans and Latinos. Since I 'm a Latino I have experienced hatred throughout my life, and it hurts. Who their discriminating words pierce through my skin(Personification), affecting me and my family . Moreover, in my opinion, I think African…

a reaction to what happened in the war. World War I and consumerism affected the United States in the 1920s because the economy fluctuated with good and bad change, professional and college athletics and the arts thrived socially, and culturally there was continued segregation for immigrants and blacks, women’s rights improved, and argumentative views proved hard times in America. Economically, the United States flourished at first after the war, but gradually fell into a depression.…

A common strife found in books that hold our nation’s history is that of stereotypes. Often, native-born Americans formed and enforced a certain stereotype against the wide variety of immigrant groups that have entered our country. Natives to our country created a stereotype of racial inferiority for Irish, Chinese, and Italian immigrant groups in the twentieth century out of anger due to the possible threat of losing government strength and jobs, which, in turn, could lead to a lifestyle of…

Proposal Project Remaking Immigrants’ Culture through Commercial Enclaves There have been many ongoing debates regarding the significance of including studies of immigrants’ cultural and ethnic identities in American historical studies. Within the United States’ racialized landscape, issues about assimilation and acculturations of immigrants by the dominant whites or developments of immigrants’ cultural and ethnic identities should continue to be studied in depth. In addition, there have been…

In addition to the need for security, pre-existing xenophobia fueled Japanese Internment. Since the foundation of the United States, the country has picked a different group of people to ostracize. The anti-Japanese sentiment roots towards the hatred for the Chinese people’s menial job takeover, which began during the Gold Rush. Americans were afraid that the Chinese, and eventually the Japanese, would steal all the jobs. This created a lot of hostility among working class Americans and even…