Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface and Introduction -- One A Comparison of Contemporary Immigration and the New Immigration of the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries -- Introduction -- Pyong Gap Min, "A Comparison of Post-1965 and Turn-of-the-Century Immigrants in Intergenerational Mobility and Cultural Transmission"--Two Making a New Home in a New Land-Resettling in the United States -- Introduction -- Virginia Yans-McLaughlin, "New Wine In Old Bottles: Family, Community, and Immigration;Mark Wyman, "Immigrants in an Industrializing Economy;George J. SΓ‘nchez, "Face the Nation: Race, Immigration, and the Rise of Nativism in Late-Twentieth-Century-America"--Edward Alworth Ross, "American Blood and Immigrant Blood"--Peter Brimelow, "Time to Rethink Immigration?"--Seven Becoming White: Irish Immigrants in the Nineteenth Century -- Introduction -- David R. Roediger, "Irish-American Workers and White Racial Formation in the Antebellum United States" -- Niles National Register-August 6, 1842-State of the Union, "Riot in Philadelphia: Conflicts between Whites and Blacks;Mary Antin, The Promised Land -- Barry Newman, "For Asians in the U.S., Mini-Chinatowns Sprout in Suburbia"--Three Transnational Ties:The Immigrants' Continuing Relationships with Their Homelands -- Introduction -- Johanna Lessinger, "Investing or Going Home? A Transnational Strategy among Indian Immigrants in the United States"--Lawrence J. McCaffrey, The Irish Diaspora in America -- Silvio Torres-Saillant, "Nothing to Celebrate"--Four Ethnicity and Ethnic Identification -- Introduction;Kathleen Neils Conzen, David A. Gerber, Ewa Morawska, George E. Pozzetta, Rudolph J. Vecoli, "The Invention of Ethnicity:A Perspective from the USA"--Claire S. Chow, "Ethnicity and Identity:What It Means to Be Asian American"--Five Generations -- Introduction -- Victor Greene, "Old-time Folk Dancing and Music among the Second Generation, 1920-50"--Jane Addams, Twenty Years at Hull-House -- Stephen Henderson, "Rakhi Dhanoa and Ranjeet Purewal" -- Six Nativism, an American Perennial -- Introduction;Frederick Douglass, "Colored Americans, and Aliens-T.F. Meagher"--Stephan A. Douglas (Speech at Jonesboro, Illinois) -- Eight Becoming Black: Contemporary Jamaicans and West Indians in the 1990s -- Introduction -- Adam Nossiter, "A Jamaican Way Station in the Bronx: Community of Striving Immigrants Fosters Middle-Class Values"--Milton Vickerman, Crosscurrents:West Indian Immigrants and Race -- Virginia Turner, "Jamaicans Outraged: New York Police Targeting West Indians"--Nine What the Immigrants Make, America Takes: Work in Immigrant Communities -- Introduction