HIS 214 Immigration and Ethnicity in the United States

3 hours 

A social history of immigration and ethnicity that focuses on topics such as immigrant institutions including family, church, community life, unions, gangs, fire companies, saloons, theatres, social mobility; and the role of ethnicity and class responses to the immigrant problem, including assimilation, nativism, racism and restriction; immigrant ghettos and boss rule; changing immigrant stereotypes; work experience; labor violence and the methods of social control.