WEEK 1
Why study immigration?
What does the study of immigration reveal about U.S. history and which stories we tell about ourselves as a people?
- John Bodnar, “Remembering the Immigrant Experience in American Culture,” Journal of American Ethnic History, Vol. 15, No. 1 (Fall 1995): 3-27
- Donna Gabaccia, “‘Is Everywhere No Where?’ Nomads, Nations, and the Immigrant Paradigm of American History,” Journal of American History, Vol. 86, No. 3 (December 1999): 1115-34
- David Gerber, American Immigration: A Very Short Introduction (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011)
- Gary Gerstle, American Crucible: Race and Nation in the Twentieth Century (2nd ed., Princeton University Press, 2017) (View the Introduction.)
- Adam Goodman, “Nation of Migrants, Historians of Migration,” Journal of American Ethnic History, Vol. 34, No. 4 (Summer 2015): 7-16
- Christiane Harzig and Dirk Hoerder, with Donna Gabaccia, “Migration in Human History—the Long View,” in What is Migration History? (Cambridge, UK: Polity, 2009), 8-52
- Matthew Frye Jacobson, “More ”Trans-,” Less ”National’‘” Journal of American Ethnic History Vol. 25, No. 4 (July 2006): 74 – 84
- Mae Ngai, “Immigration and Ethnic History,” in Eric Foner and Lisa McGirr, eds., American History Now (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2011), 358-375
- Vicki Ruiz, “Nuestra América: Latino History as United States History,” Journal of American History Vol. 93, No. 3 (December 2006): 655-672
- George J. Sánchez, “Race, Nation, and Culture in Recent Immigration Studies,” Journal of American Ethnic History, Vol. 18, No. 4 (Summer 1999): 66-84
- Paul Spickard, “Immigration, Race, Ethnicity, Colonialism,” in Almost All Aliens (New York: Routledge, 2007), 1-28
WEEK 2
Settlers, Servants, and Slaves in British, French, and Spanish Colonial America
How does inequality, the freedom to move, and access to citizenship have its roots in the colonial period?
- Ira Berlin, Prologue, Chapter 1 – “Movement and Place in the African American Past” and Chapter 2 – “The Transatlantic Passage,” in The Making of African America: The Four Great Migrations (New York: Viking Press, 2010)
- Roger Daniels, “Part One—Colonial America,” in Coming to America: A History of Immigration and Ethnicity in American Life, 2nd ed. (New York: Harper Collins, 2002), 3-120
- Gunlög Fur, “Indians and Immigrants: Entangled Histories” Journal of American Ethnic History Vol. 33, No. 3 (Spring 2014): 55-76
- Gary Gerstle, “Liberty, Coercion, and the Making of Americans,” Journal of American History, Vol. 84, No. 2 (September 1997): 524-558
- Andrés Reséndez, The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement In America (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016)
- David J. Weber, Myth and the History of the Hispanic Southwest: Essays (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1988) and The Spanish Frontier In North America. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992)
- Michael Witgen, An Infinity of Nations: How the Native New World Shaped Early North America (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013)
Primary Sources
- Diary of John Harrower (indentured servant), 1773-1776, archive.org
- Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative and Other Writings, 1789, Project Gutenberg Ebook
- Brett Rushforth and Paul W. Mapp, Colonial North America and the Atlantic World: A History In Documents (Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2009)
- 1790 Naturalization Act, densho.org
- Alien and Sedition Acts, Library of Congress
- The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database, Emory University
Multimedia
- “In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience,“ The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
- Africans in America: “America’s Journey Through Slavery,” PBS
- “The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record,” Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and University of Virginia
- Evan Taparata, “The U.S. Has Come a Long Way Since Its First, Highly Restrictive Naturalization Law,” Public Radio International, July 4, 2016