American Immigration

4 credits · Undergraduate credit

As America is a nation of immigrants, this course surveys the immigrant past of ethnic groups such as the Irish, Germans, Jews, Italians, Chinese, Japanese, Blacks, Puerto Ricans, Cubans, and Mexicans. Surveying these varied ethnic histories, we analyze them from contrasting theoretical perspectives on race and ethnic relations, theories of assimilation, internal colonialism, etc. We seek to understand what is unique to and shared among these experiences.