Almost All Aliens: Immigration, Race, and Colonialism in American History and Identity

742 Pages·2007·9.72 MB·English

by  Paul Spickard

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Almost all aliens : immigration, race, and colonialism in American history and identity / Paul
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1. United States‑‑Emigration and immigration‑‑History. 2. United States‑‑Emigration and
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To my students

Racism is the elephant in the living room in this country. And
we pretend it does not exist. Until we acknowledge it, until we
acknowledge the past, we are not moving forward.
Rita Bender, widow of Michael Schwerner, a White civil rights worker
slain in Mississippi in 1964. Quoted in Josh Gitlin and Elizabeth Mehren,
“Still a Long Ways from Justice,” (Los Angeles Times, January 8, 2005).

Contents
Acknowledgments xiii
PrefAce xvii
1 Immigration, Race, Ethnicity, Colonialism 1
Beyond ellis Island—How not to think about Immigration History 4
not Assimilation But race making 11
words matter 25
2 Colliding Peoples in Eastern North America, 1600–1780 29
In the Beginning there were Indians 30
there goes the neighborhood: european Incursion and “settlement” 36
A mixed multitude: european migrants 48
out of Africa 62
merging Peoples, Blending cultures 76
3 An Anglo-American Republic? Racial Citizenship,
1760–1860 79
slavery and Antislavery in the era of the American revolution 80
free white Persons: defining membership 89
Playing Indian: white Appropriations of native American symbols
and Identities 91
european Immigrants 94
Issues in european migration 115
nativism 121
were the Irish ever not white? 124
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