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America Classifies the Immigrants
When more than twenty million immigrants arrived in the United States between 1880 and 1920, the government attempted to classify them according to prevailing ideas about race and …
Women's Work?
American schoolteaching is one of few occupations to have undergone a thorough gender shift yet previous explanations have neglected a key feature of the transition: its regional …
America Classifies the Immigrants
When more than twenty million immigrants arrived in the United States between 1880 and 1920, the government attempted to classify them according to prevailing ideas about race and …
Women's Work?
American schoolteaching is one of few occupations to have undergone a thorough gender shift yet previous explanations have neglected a key feature of the transition: its regional …
New Race Question
The change in the way the federal government asked for information about race in the 2000 census marked an important turning point in the way Americans measure race. By allowing …
Ethnic Differences
Ethnic Differences, first published in 1989, explores how and why the Irish, Italians, Jews, and blacks of Providence, Rhode Island differed in their schooling and economic …
Ethnic Differences
This 1989 book explores how and why the Irish, Italians, Jews, and blacks of Providence, Rhode Island differed in their schooling and economic success.
Italians Then, Mexicans Now
According to the American dream, hard work and a good education can lift people from poverty to success in the "e;land of opportunity."e; The unskilled immigrants who came …