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| Each chapter concludes with Further Reading | |
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| Approaches to American Immigration and Ethnic History Essays | |
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| Immigration Portrayed as an Experience of Uprootedness | |
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| Immigration Portrayed as an Experience of Transplantation | |
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| The Problem of Assimilation in the United States | |
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| The Invention of Ethnicity in the United States | |
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| Strangers in the Realm: Migrants to British Colonial North America, 16091785 | |
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| Documents An African, Recounts the Horror of Enslavement 1757 | |
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| A German, Describes the Difficulties of Immigration, 1750 | |
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| An Indentured Servant, Explains the Condition of Labor in Pennsylvania, 1743 | |
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| A Traveler, Observes the Variety of Labor in the Colonies, 1750 | |
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| Recounts the Discontent in Ireland That Resulted in Emigration, 1728 | |
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| Advises Those Who Might Move to America, 1784 | |
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| A Land Speculator, Promotes Immigration, 1736 Essays | |
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| Creative Adaptations: Peoples and Cultures | |
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| Outcome of the Repeopling of British North America on Native Americans, Africans, and Europeans | |
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| Nation and Citizenship in the Age of Revolution, 17501800 Documents | |
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| Opposes the Migration of Non-English into the Colonies, 1755 | |
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| A Jurist, Defends the Rights of Aliens in Maryland, 1758 | |
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| Defends Immigration, 1774 | |
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| Celebrates the Possibilities of America for Its Immigrants, 1782 | |
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| The German Press in Philadelphia Defends the War for Independence, 1776 | |
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| African Americans Petition for Their Freedom, 17741777 | |
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| Congress Establishes Its Initial Policy on Naturalization, 1790 | |
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| Congress Restricts the Rights of Aliens Essays | |
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| The Creation of Citizenship in the British American Colonies and Early United States Arthur Mann, The Creation of American Identity in the Late Eighteenth Century | |
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| European Migration and the Radical Attempt to Conserve, 18301880 Docuemts | |
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| A German, Assesses the Possibilities for Immigrants to Missouri, 1827 | |
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| Chronicles Norwegian American Immigration to Wisconsin, 18681870 | |
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| Explains the Irish Migration Following the Potato Famine, 1847 | |
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| Describes Irish and German Immigrants in New York City, 1850 | |
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| Women and Men Observe the "Freedom" and Opportunity in America, 18411848 | |
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| A German-American Family Changes Its Assessment of American Life, 18501857 | |
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| A Graphic Portrayal of a Chain Migration from Sweden, 18661883 Essays | |
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| Irish Immigrants Who Perceive America as Exile Kathleen Niels Conzen, German Catholic Immigrants Who Make Their Own America | |
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| Nativism and Becoming American at Midcentury, 18301860 Documents | |
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| About Immigrants Flooding into the American West, 1835 | |
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| Enumerates the "Dangers" of the Roman Catholic Immigrant, 1835 | |
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| A Supposed Escaped Nun, Recounts the Perils of the Convent, 1835 | |
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| A Nativist, Considers the Dangers of Immigration to the Republic, 1856 | |
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| An Anti-Catholic, Compares "Romanism" and "Republicanism," 1856 | |
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| The Know Nothings, "The American Party," Defend Their Political Movement, 1855 | |
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| Portrayals of Immigrants in Political Cartoons of the Era Walt Whitman Celebrates the Diversity in the United States, 1855 Essays | |
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| The Ideology of the Know Nothing Party Dale Knobel, The Relationship Between the Portrayal of Irish Americans and Citizenship at Midcentury | |
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| Emigration and Return: Migration Patterns in the Industrial Age: 18501920 Documents | |
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| A Chinese Immigrant, Describes Life in the United States and Denounces Anti-Chinese Prejudice, 1882 | |
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| Immmigrants Recall Their Life in Eastern Europe and Their Emigration, 19151923 | |
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| A Slovenian Recounts Varying Assessments of America Made by Returned Immigrants, 1909 | |
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| A Russian Woman, Encounters Anti-Semitic Violence and Flees Russia, 1912 | |
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| Mexican Ballads Justify and Condemn Immigration, 1924 | |
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| Chinese Immigrants Explain Their Migration and Lament Their Detention, 19101940 Essays | |
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| The Relationship Between American Money and Italian Land in Stimulating Return Migration Suchang Chan | |
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| The Chinese Migration to the United States in the Context of the Larger Chinese Diaspora | |
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| Industrial Immigrants in the City and on the Countryside, 18801920 Documents | |
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| Describes the Impoverished Tenements of New York City, 1890 | |
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| A Portrait of Sweatshop Labor in New York City, 1895 | |
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| A New York Politician Justifies the Urban Political Machine, 1905 | |
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| The Yiddish Press in New York City Two Italian Americans Recount the 1912 | |
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| Massachusetts, Strike Three Chinese Americans Recall Life and Labor in Their Ethnic Community, 18771917 | |
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| A Sociologist Analyzes the Process of Assimilation Among Slavic Immigrants, 1910 Essays | |
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| Immigrants Adjust to Industrial Labor, "Clock Time," and Unionization in the Early Twentieth Century Tomas Almaguer The Interactions of Race and Class in Agricultural Labor | |
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| Women Immigrants Documents Sociologists Describe the Disruption of Familial Solidarity Resulting from Immigration, 1918 | |
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| Renounces the Patriarchal Authority of Immigrant Households, 1910 | |
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| A Depiction of the Patriarchal Immigrant Household in Greenwich Village, 19201930 | |
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| Two Italian Americans Analyze Changing Familial and Gender Patterns Among Immigrants, 1939 | |
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| Swedish Americans Debate the Consequences of Changing Gender Roles Among Immigrants in America, 18961914 | |
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| Mexican Ballads Ridicule Women"s Changing Behavior, 1924 | |
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| A Chinese American Woman Details Life as a Prostitute in America, 1898 Essays | |
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| Changes Between Women and Men in the Irish American Family Vicki Ruiz: Changes Between Daughters and Parents in the Mexican American Family | |
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| Racialization of Immigrants, 18801930 Documents | |
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| Racializes Chinese American Labor, 1902 | |
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| The Asiatic Exclusion League Argues That Asians Cannot Be Assimilated, 1911 | |
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| Chinese American, Reprimands Americans for Anti-Chinese Attitudes and Law, 1907 | |
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| A Racialized Description of Immigrants from Europe, 1915 | |
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| A Sociologist Portrays the Racial Dimensions of Immigrants from Europe, 1914 | |
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| Congressman John Box Objects to Mexican Immigrants, 1928 | |
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| United States: The United States Supreme Court Clarifies the Meaning of "White," 1923 Essayd | |
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| The Evolution of Thought on Race and the Development of Scientific Racism Ian F. Haney-Lopez, The Evolution of Legal Constructions of Race and "Whiteness | |
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| Responses to Immigration: Exclusion, Restriction and Americanization, 18801924 Documents | |
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| A Protestant Clergyman, considers the "Perils" of Immigration, 1885 | |
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| The Immigration Restriction League Outlines the "Immigration Problem," 1894 | |
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| Poem at the Foot of the Statue of Liberty, 1883 | |
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| A German American Attacks, "False Americanism," 1889 | |
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| American Playwright celebrates the American "Melting Pot," 1909 | |
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| Advocates "Americanism," 1915 | |
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| Promotes Cultural Pluralism, 1916 | |
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| The Governor of Iowa Proclaims English the State's Official Lang | |