One Quarter of the Nation: Immigration and the Transformation of America Foner Nancy
How eighty-six million immigrants and their children changed who we areThe impact of immigrants over the past half century has become so much a part of everyday life in the United States that we…
Specifikacia One Quarter of the Nation: Immigration and the Transformation of America Foner Nancy
How eighty-six million immigrants and their children changed who we areThe impact of immigrants over the past half century has become so much a part of everyday life in the United States that we sometimes fail to see it. This deeply researched book by one of America's leading immigration scholars tells the story of how immigrants are fundamentally changing this country.An astonishing number of immigrants and their children--nearly eighty-six million people--now live in the United States. Together, they have transformed the American experience in profound and far-reaching ways that go to the heart of the country's identity and institutions.Unprecedented in scope, One Quarter of the Nation traces how immigration has reconfigured America's racial order--and, importantly, how Americans perceive race--and played a pivotal role in reshaping electoral politics