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050	0	4	_aJV6483 _b.A447 2018
049			_aMAIN
100	1		_aPerlmann, Joel, _e1
245	1	0	_aAmerica classifies the immigrants : _bfrom Ellis Island to the 2020 census / _cJoel Perlmann.
260			_aCambridge, Massachusetts : _bHarvard University Press, _c(c)2018.
300			_a1 online resource (viii, 451 pages)
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337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
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520	0		_aWhen more than twenty million immigrants arrived in the United States between 1880 and 1920, the government attempted to classify them according to prevailing ideas about race and nationality. But this proved hard to do. Ideas about racial or national difference were slippery, contested, and yet consequential--were "Hebrews" a "race," a "religion," or a "people"? As Joel Perlmann shows, a self-appointed pair of officials created the government's 1897 List of Races and Peoples, which shaped exclusionary immigration laws, the wording of the U.S. Census, and federal studies that informed social policy. Its categories served to maintain old divisions and establish new ones. Across the five decades ending in the 1920s, American immigration policy built increasingly upon the belief that some groups of immigrants were desirable, others not. Perlmann traces how the debates over this policy institutionalized race distinctions--between whites and nonwhites, but also among whites--in immigration laws that lasted four decades. Despite a gradual shift among social scientists from "race" to "ethnic group" after the 1920s, the diffusion of this key concept among government officials and the public remained limited until the end of the 1960s. Taking up dramatic changes to racial and ethnic classification since then, America Classifies the Immigrants concentrates on three crucial reforms to the American Census: the introduction of Hispanic origin and ancestry (1980), the recognition of mixed racial origins (2000), and a rethinking of the connections between race and ethnic group (proposed for 2020).-- _cProvided by publisher.
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505	0	0	_aCreating and refining the list, 1898-1906 -- _tImmigration-especially European-through the lens of race -- _tStruggle over the list: the Jewish challenges and the federal defense, 1898-1910 -- _tThe United States Immigration Commission, 1907-1911 -- _tUrging the list on the U.S. Census Bureau, 1908-1910 -- _tThe census bureau goes its own way: race, nationality, mother tongue, 1910-1913 -- _tThe second quota act, 1924 -- _tImmigration law for white races and others: three episodes -- _tFrom "race" to "ethnic group": organizing concepts in American studies of immigrants, 1890-1960 -- _tFrom social science to the federal bureaucracy?: limited diffusion of the "ethnic group" concept through the early 1950s -- _tRace and the immigrant in federal statistics after 1965.
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610	1	0	_aUnited States. _bBureau of the Census _xHistory.
650		0	_aRace _xClassification _xHistory.
650		0	_aEthnic groups _xClassification _xHistory.
650		0	_aRace _xPolitical aspects _zUnited States _xHistory.
650		0	_aEthnic groups _xPolitical aspects _zUnited States _xHistory.
655		1	_aElectronic Books.
856	4	0	_uhttps://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1712990&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 _zClick to access digital title | log in using your CIU ID number and my.ciu.edu password
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902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell