WEEK 7
World War II and the Cold War: The Geopolitics of Immigration Reforms
How did international conflicts lead the United States to diminish the rights of individuals categorized as “enemy aliens”? How did foreign relations influence the reform of immigration and naturalization laws for groups who had faced near exclusion from the U.S. and had been denied access to citizenship?
- Roger Daniels, Prisoners Without Trial: Japanese Americans in World War II (New York: Hill and Wang, 2004)
- Erasmo Gamboa, Bracero Railroaders: The Forgotten World War II Story of Mexican Workers in the U.S. West (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2016)
- Maria Cristina Garcia, “Exiles, Not Immigrants,” and “The Mariel Boatlift,” in Havana USA: Cuban Exiles and Cuban Americans in South Florida (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996): 13-82
- Thomas Guglielmo and Cybelle Fox, “Defining America’s Racial Boundaries: Blacks, Mexicans, and European Immigrants, 1890-1945,” American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 118, No. 2 (September 2012): 327-379
- Madeline Y. Hsu and Ellen D. Wu, “Smoke and Mirrors: Conditional Inclusion, Model Minorities, and the Pre 1965 Dismantling of Asian Exclusion,” Journal of American Ethnic History, Vol. 34, No. 4 (Summer 2015): 43-65
- Madeline Hsu, “The Cold War,” Oxford Handbook of Asian American History edited by David Yoo and Eiichiro Azuma (New York: Oxford University Press, 2016): 171-181
- Erika Lee, “‘Military Necessity’: The Uprooting of Japanese Americans,” “‘Grave Injustices’: The Incarceration of Japanese Americans,” and “Good War/Cold War,” in The Making of Asian America (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2015): 211-282
- Kelly Lyle Hernandez, “The Crimes and Consequences of Illegal Immigration: A Cross-Border Examination of Operation Wetback, 1943-1954,” Western Historical Quarterly (Winter 2006): 421-444
- Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof, “Yankee, Go Home…and Take Me with You!” in A Tale of Two Cities: Santo Domingo and New York After 1950 (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2010): 68-96
- Monique Laney, German Rocketeers in the Heart of Dixie: Making Sense of the Nazi Past during the Civil Rights Era (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2015)
- Shelley Lee, “Asian Americans and the Crucible of World War II,” in A New History of Asian America (New York: Routledge, 2013): 207-244
- Laura Madokoro, Elusive Refuge: Chinese Migrants in the Cold War (Boston, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016)
- Alice Yang Murray, “The History of ‘Military Necessity’ and the Justification for Internment,” in the Japanese American Internment: Historical Memories of The Japanese American Internment and the Struggle for Redress (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2008): 15-51
- Ellen Schrecker, “Immigration and Internal Security: Political deportations during the McCarthy Era,” Science and Society, 60, no. 4 (1996): 393 – 426 + Register and Read for Free option
- Jordan Stanger-Ross, Staying Italian: Urban Change and Ethnic Life In Postwar Toronto and Philadelphia (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009)
- Jeremy Suri, “Henry Kissinger, the American Dream, and the Jewish Immigrant Experience in the Cold War,” Diplomatic History, 32, no. 5 (2008): 719-747
- Daniel J. Tichenor, “Strangers in Cold War America: The Modern Presidency, Committee Barons, and Postwar Immigration Politics”in Dividing Lines: The Politics of Immigration Control in America (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2002): 176-218
- Gilbert Woo, “One Hundred and Seven Chinese” in Judy Yung et al, Chinese American Voices: From the Gold Rush to the Present (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2006): 221-224
Primary Sources
- Ex parte Endo (323 US 283), U.S. Supreme Court
- Hirabayashi v. US Hirabayashi v. United States (320 U.S. 81, 63 S.Ct. 1375, June 21, 1943), Cornell University Law Library
- John F. Kennedy, “A Nation of Immigrants”, Anti-Defamation League Archives
- Korematsu v. United States, 323 U.S. 214 (1944), U.S. Supreme Court
- Julie Otsuka, When the Emperor Was Divine (New York: Anchor Books, 2003)
- Whom Shall We Welcome, U.S. President’s Commission on Immigration and Naturalization, 1953
- Minoru Yasui v. United States (320 US 115, June 21, 1943), Cornell University Law Library
- “Universal Declaration of Human Rights,” United Nations
Multimedia
- “A Family Gathering” (documentary film)
- “America and the Holocaust: Deceit and Indifference” (documentary film)
- “Carlos Eire: A Cuban-American Searches For Roots” (podcast)
- Densho: The Japanese Experience during WWII (multimedia website)
- “How to Spot a Jap” (digitized book)
- “War and Peace,” Episode 3, The Latino Americans (documentary film)
- “The Legacy of Heart Mountain” (documentary film)
- “The Zoot Suit Riots” (documentary film)
WEEK 8
Family, Gender, and Sexuality
How does immigration impact gender and family relations?
How has immigration policy, gender inequality, and discrimination against LGBT immigrants affected the freedom to move and the immigrant experience?
- Leisy Abrego, Sacrificing Families: Navigating Laws, Labor, and Love Across Borders (Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2014)
- Julio Capó, “Queering Mariel: Mediating Cold War Foreign Policy and U.S. Citizenship among Cuba’s Homosexual Exile Community, 1978-1994,” Journal Of American Ethnic History, 29, no. 4 (Summer 2010): 78-106
- Hasia R. Diner, Erin’s Daughters In America: Irish Immigrant Women In the Nineteenth Century (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1983)
- Katharine Donato and Donna Gabaccia, Gender and International Migration (New York: Russell Sage, 2015)
- Joanna Dreby, Everyday Illegal: When Policies Undermine Immigrant Families (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2015)
- Donna R. Gabaccia, From the Other Side: Women, Gender, and Immigrant Life in the U.S., 1820-1990 (Bloomington: University of Indiana Press, 1994); Women, Gender, and Transnational Lives: Italian Workers of the World (ed. with Franca Iacovetta) (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002)
- Donna R. Gabaccia and Vicki L. Ruiz, “Migrations and Destinations: Reflections on the Histories of U.S. Immigrant Women,” Journal of American Ethnic History 26.1 (2006): 3-19
- Shirley Hune and Gail M. Nomura, eds., Asian/Pacific Islander American Women: A Historical Anthology (New York: New York University Press, 2003)
- Eithne Luibheid, edi., Queer Migration: Sexuality, U.S. Citizenship, and Border Crossings (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2005)
- Robert Orsi, The Madonna of 115th Street: Faith and Community in Italian Harlem, 1880-1950 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985)
- Ana Elizabeth Rosas, Abrazando El Espíritu: Bracero Families Confront the Us-Mexico Border (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2014) Read Chapter 1
- Vicki L. Ruiz, From Out of the Shadows: Mexican Women in Twentieth-Century America 10th anniversary edition (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008)
- Nayan Shah, Stranger Intimacy: Contesting Race, Sexuality, and the Law in the North American West (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012)
- Judy Yung, Unbound Feet: A Social History of Chinese Women (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995)
- Xiaojian Zhao, Remaking Chinese America: Immigration, Family, and Community (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2002)
Primary Sources
- Births Outside of Marriage Decline for Immigrant Women, Pew Research Center
- Digitizing Immigrant Letters, Immigration History Research Center Archives
- Immigrant Stories (digital stories about transnational families, identity, and second generation experiences) Immigration History Research Center
- Immigrants Write to Families Back Home, Johnstown Area Heritage Association
- Primary Source Materials relating to LGBTQ Immigrants and Asylum Seekers, Immigration Equality
- U.S. border apprehensions of Families and Unaccompanied Children Jump Dramatically, Pew Research Center
Multimedia
- Crossing Over (documentary)
- Transgression (documentary)