Unit name | Strangers in the Land: Making America and Becoming American (Level I Lecture Response) |
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Unit code | HIST25006 |
Credit points | 20 |
Level of study | I/5 |
Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 1 (weeks 1 - 12) |
Unit director | Professor. Coates |
Open unit status | Not open |
Pre-requisites |
None |
Co-requisites |
None |
School/department | Department of History (Historical Studies) |
Faculty | Faculty of Arts |
A 'nation of immigrants': dissecting this familiar cliché, this unit examines changing patterns of migration and its underlying motives in nineteenth- and twentieth-century America. We will analyse the immigrant and how nativeborn Americans’ response to immigration varied according to time, place and the immigrants’ race, class, and gender. The unit thus covers intellectual, legislative, and cultural history to develop an understanding of American self conceptions and views of migration as well as the immigrants’ experience of “Americanization” and strategies of retaining and reinventing their cultural identities.
Aims:
Upon successful completion of this unit, students will be able to demonstrate:
Weekly:
1 x two-hour interactive lecture
1 x one-hour workshop
1 x 3000 word essay (50%) and 1 x 2 hour exam (50%)
Paul Spickard, Almost All Aliens: Immigration, Race, and Colonialism in American History and Identity (2007)
Mae Ngai & Jon Gjerde (eds.) Major Problems in American Immigration and Ethnic History. Documents and Essays. 2nd ed. (2013)
Mae Ngai, 'Immigration and Ethnic History', in American History Now, eds. Eric Foner and Lisa McGirr (2011), 358-75.
David Roediger, Working Toward Whiteness: How America’s Immigrants Became White: the Strange Journey from Ellis Island to the Suburbs (2005)
Daniel Tichenor, Dividing Lines. Politics of Immigration Control in America (2002)
Reed Ueda (ed.) A Companion to American Immigration (2006)