Write a critically review a book related to immigration and ethnicity. Reviews should discuss the books topic, argument, success in addressing race, ethnicity, and/or immigration, and tie the books topic into the context of our course.
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A list of books to review is available here: List of books for review.docx
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Reviews must be 3-4 pages double spaced in Times New Roman 12 point font.
The author and title of the book reviewed should be at the top of the review. Any additional sources should be in Chicago style footnotes. (Help with citations). Students are not required to but may use outside sources, sources from the course, or course lectures to strengthen their review. Lectures can be cited by including the course title and lecture date.
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Any one of these books:
Chang, Kornel. Pacific Connections: The Making of the US-Canadian Borderlands. Berkeley:
University of California Press, 2012.
Cohen, Deborah. Braceros: Migrant Citizens and Transnational Subjects in the Postwar United
States and Mexico Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011.
Cronon, William. Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England.
New York: Hill & Wang, 1983.
Faragher, John Mack. Sugar Creek: Life on the Illinois Prairie. New Haven: Yale University
Press, 1986.
Gabaccia, Donna R. From the Other Side: Women, Gender, and Immigrant Life in the U.S.,
1820-1990. Bloomington: University of Indiana Press, 1994
Goodman, Adam. The Deportation Machine: Americas Long History of Expelling Immigrants.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020.
Hernandez, Kelly Lytle. Migra! A History of the U.S. Border Patrol. Berkeley: University of
California Press, 2010.
Hirota, Hidetaka. Expelling the Poor: Atlantic Seaboard States and the 19th-Century Origins of
American Immigration Policy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017.
Jacoby, Karl. Shadows at Dawn: An Apache Massacre and the Violence of History. New York:
Penguin Books, 2008.
Lee, Erica. America for America: A History of Xenophobia in the United States. New York:
Basic Books, 2019.
Lim, Julian. Porous Borders: Multiracial Migrations and the Law in the U.S.-Mexico
Borderlands. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017.
Marinari, Maddalena. Unwanted: Italian and Jewish Mobilization against Restrictive
Immigration Laws, 1882-1965. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020.
Martinez, Oscar J. Border People: Life and Society in the U.S. Mexico Borderlands. Tucson:
University of Arizona Press, 1994.
Ngai, Mai. Impossible Subjects: Illegal aliens and the Making of Modern America. Princeton
University Press, updated edition, 2014.
Yang, Jia Lynn. One Mighty and Irresistible Tide: The Epic Struggle Over American
Immigration, 1924-1965. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2020.
Zimring, Carl A. Clean and White: A History of Environmental Racism in the United States.
New York City: NYU Press, 2016.
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