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Unwelcome Americans
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Author : Ruth Wallis Herndon
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2010-11-24
Unwelcome Americans written by Ruth Wallis Herndon and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11-24 with History categories.
Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title In eighteenth-century America, no centralized system of welfare existed to assist people who found themselves without food, medical care, or shelter. Any poor relief available was provided through local taxes, and these funds were quickly exhausted. By the end of the century, state and national taxes levied to help pay for the Revolutionary War further strained municipal budgets. In order to control homelessness, vagrancy, and poverty, New England towns relied heavily on the "warning out" system inherited from English law. This was a process in which community leaders determined the legitimate hometown of unwanted persons or families in order to force them to leave, ostensibly to return to where they could receive care. The warning-out system alleviated the expense and responsibility for the general welfare of the poor in any community, and placed the burden on each town to look after its own. But homelessness and poverty were problems as onerous in early America as they are today, and the system of warning out did little to address the fundamental causes of social disorder. Ultimately the warning-out system gave way to the establishment of general poorhouses and other charities. But the documents that recorded details about the lives of those who were warned out provide an extraordinary—and until now forgotten—history of people on the margin. Unwelcome Americans puts a human face on poverty in early America by recovering the stories of forty New Englanders who were forced to leave various communities in Rhode Island. Rhode Island towns kept better and more complete warning-out records than other areas in New England, and because the official records include those who had migrated to Rhode Island from other places, these documents can be relied upon to describe the experiences of poor people across the region. The stories are organized from birth to death, beginning with the lives of poor children and young adults, followed by families and single adults, and ending with the testimonies of the elderly and dying. Through meticulous research of historical records, Herndon has managed to recover voices that have not been heard for more than two hundred years, in the process painting a dramatically different picture of family and community life in early New England. These life stories tell us that those who were warned out were predominantly unmarried women with or without children, Native Americans, African Americans, and destitute families. Through this remarkable reconstruction, Herndon provides a corrective to the narratives of the privileged that have dominated the conversation in this crucial period of American history, and the lives she chronicles give greater depth and a richer dimension to our understanding of the growth of American social responsibility.
Unwelcome Strangers
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Author : David M. Reimers
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 1998
Unwelcome Strangers written by David M. Reimers and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with History categories.
Charting the history of US immigration policy from the Puritan colonists to World War II refugees, this text uncovers the arguments of the anti-immigration forces including: warnings against the consequences of overpopulation; and economic concerns that immigrants take jobs away from Americans.
The Unwelcome Immigrant The American Image Of The Chinese 1785 1882
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Author : Stuart Creighton Miller
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1969
The Unwelcome Immigrant The American Image Of The Chinese 1785 1882 written by Stuart Creighton Miller and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1969 with categories.
The Unwelcome Immigrant
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1969
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Images Of The Unwelcome Immigrant
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Author : Shirley Sui Ling Tam
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999
Images Of The Unwelcome Immigrant written by Shirley Sui Ling Tam and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with American periodicals categories.
The Unwelcome Immigrant The American Image Of The Chinese 1785 1882
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1969
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Historical research study of the evolution of the unfavourable opinion of the Chinese prevalent in the USA in the 19th century, before and after the arrival of large numbers of immigrants, and comments on events which led to discrimination and to the passing of legislation to exclude them. References.
Ethnic Americans
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Author : Leonard Dinnerstein
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2009-01-13
Ethnic Americans written by Leonard Dinnerstein and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-01-13 with History categories.
For more than three decades, Ethnic Americans has been hailed as a classic history of immigration to America. Leonard Dinnerstein and David M. Reimers begin with a brief overview of immigration during the colonial and early national eras (1492 to the 1820s), focusing primarily on the arrival of English Protestants, while at the same time stressing the diversity brought by Dutch, French, Spanish, and other small groups, including "free people of color" from the Caribbean. Next they follow large-scale European immigration from 1830 to the 1880s. Catholicism became a major force in America during this period, with immigrants five million in the 1880s alone creating a new mosaic in every state of the Union. This section also touches on the arrival, beginning in 1848, of Chinese immigrants and other groups who hoped to find gold and get rich. Subsequent chapters address eastern and southern European immigration from 1890 to 1940; newcomers from the Western Hemisphere and Asia who arrived from 1840 to 1940; immigration restriction from 1875 to World War II; and the postwar arrival and experiences of Asian, Mexican, Hungarian, and Cuban refugees. Taking the past fifteen years into account, the fifth edition of Ethnic Americans considers recent influxes of Asians and Hispanics, especially the surge in the Mexican population, and includes expanded coverage of nativist sentiment in American politics and thought.
Unwelcome Guests
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Author : Harold S. Wechsler
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2022-02-01
Unwelcome Guests written by Harold S. Wechsler and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-02-01 with Education categories.
A comprehensive history of the barriers faced by students from marginalized racial, ethnic, and religious groups to gain access to predominantly white colleges and universities—and how these students responded to these barriers. Affirmative action in college admission is one of the most contested initiatives in contemporary federal policy, from its beginnings in the 1960s through the 2014 lawsuit alleging that Harvard discriminates against Asian American applicants. Supporters point out that using race and ethnicity as a criterion for admission helps remediate some of the effects of racist practices on minorities, including restrictions on college admissions. Opponents insist that the practice violates civil rights laws that prohibit racial discrimination and that it reenacts the historic racial bias of colleges. In Unwelcome Guests, Harold S. Wechsler and Steven J. Diner argue that discrimination in college admissions has a long and troubling history in the United States. Institutions of higher learning have vigorously sought to shape their mission and the experiences of their undergraduate students by paying careful attention to race and religion in admissions decisions. Post–World War I institutions devised exclusionary mechanisms that disadvantaged African Americans and other minority students for much of the century. Wechsler and Diner explore how American colleges and universities sought to restrict enrollment of students they considered undesirable. How, they ask, did these practices change over time? And how did underrepresented students cope with this discrimination—and with the indifference, bare tolerance, or outright hostility of some of their professors and peers? Tracing the efforts of people from underrepresented racial, ethnic, and religious groups to attend mainstream colleges, Wechsler and Diner also look at how these students fared after graduation, paying particular attention to Black women and men. Unwelcome Guests illuminates a critically important aspect of the history of American colleges and universities but also addresses policy debates about affirmative action and racial/ethnic diversity in colleges today. This profound history of the limits on college access over decades of discrimination will help readers recognize and understand the central role of race in the history of American higher education.
Unwelcome Guests
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Author : Jason H. Silverman
language : en
Publisher: Millwood, N.Y. : Associated Faculty Press
Release Date : 1985
Unwelcome Guests written by Jason H. Silverman and has been published by Millwood, N.Y. : Associated Faculty Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with History categories.
The Unwelcome Immigrant
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Author : Stuart Creighton Miller
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1969
The Unwelcome Immigrant written by Stuart Creighton Miller and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1969 with China categories.