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Editors: Carl L. Bankston III and Danielle Hidalgo,
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ISBN: 978-1-58765-266-0
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February 2006 · 2 volumes · 784 pages · 6"x9"

Immigration in US History
Index

AAJF. See American Arab and Jewish Friends
AALDF. See Asian American Legal Defense Fund
AAUG. See Association of Arab American University Graduates
Abbott, Edith, 646
Abourezk, James, 44
Abraham, Spencer, 44, 47
Acadia, 508
Accent discrimination, 1-3
ACCESS. See Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services
Acculturation, 221, 530; of Arabs, 48; and assimilation, 80; of Cubans, 630; of Dominicans, 209, 211; and ethnic enclaves, 273; generational, 273-276
Achick, Tong K., 154
ACJ. See American Council on Judaism
Act to Protect Free White Labor Against Competition from Chinese Coolie Labor of 1862 (California), 61
Adamic, Louis, 229
Adams, John, 16-17
ADC. See American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee
Addams, Jane, 332-334, 646
AFDC. See Aid to Families with Dependent Children
Affirmative action, 121, 123, 206, 600-601; and immigrants, 9; and Latinos, 181; white resentment of, 552
AFL. See American Federation of Labor
African Americans; and Cuban immigrants, 180-184; and Irish immigrants, 400-401; and Korean immigrants, 469-472; stereotypes, 691
African immigrants, 3-11
Afro-Caribbean immigrants, 6, 9, 11-15, 181; and Santería, 629-630
Afroyim v. Rusk, 568
Agricultural Labor Relations Act, 251
Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee, 251-252
Agriculture, 243, 384, 605; and British immigrants, 107; European, 241, 281, 316, 410, 445; and European immigrants, 235, 281; and Filipino immigrants, 260; and Irish immigrants, 403; and Jamaican immigrants, 417; and Japanese immigrants, 19, 433, 439, 517; and Mexican immigrants, 99, 101, 103-107, 191, 251-257, 572-573; and World War II, 103-107
Aid to Families with Dependent Children, 698
AJC. See American Jewish Committee
Alabama; Clotilde slave ship, 168-171; and Ku Klux Klan, 479-480
Alaska; Filipino immigrants, 280; gold rush, 708; Native Americans, 123-124; Russian immigrants, 622-623; and U.S. Census, 123-124
Alianza Federal de Mercedes, La, 128
Alien Act of 1798, 257-258, 319
Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798, 15-18, 257-258
Alien Enemies Act of 1798, 257-258
Alien Land Law of 1913 (California), 19, 204, 433, 441, 576, 710; repeal of, 435
Alien Land Law of 1920 (California), 21, 710
Alien land laws, 19-22, 578; in California, 204, 433, 435, 441, 576, 710
Alien Registration Act of 1940, 728
Alien Registration Receipt (green) Cards, 293-295
Almeida-Sanchez v. United States, 566
ALRA. See Agricultural Labor Relations Act
Amalgamated Clothing Workers, 271
Ambach v. Norwick, 564
Amerasian Homecoming Act, 24
Amerasians, 22-26; Vietnamese, 671
American Arab and Jewish Friends, 456
American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, 36, 44-45
American Civil Liberties Union, 218, 314
American Council on Judaism, 615
American Dream, 90, 344, 507; and Chinese immigrants, 149; and European immigrants, 225; and Irish immigrants, 398-399; in literature, 59, 149, 226, 229, 233
American Federation of Labor, 344
American Immigration Lawyers Association, 381-382
American Indians. See Native Americans
American Jewish Committee, 26-27, 615
American Legion, 99, 585, 710
American Museum of Immigration, 225
American Party. See Know-Nothing Party
American Protective Association, 344, 350, 559
Amish, 284
Amnesty International, 298, 314
Anabaptists, 285
Anarchists, 319, 344, 349, 561, 568, 584; Goldman, Emma, 585; Sacco and Vanzetti trial, 626-629
Anaya, Rudolfo, 509
Angel Island, 432, 434, 546, 696; opening of, 726
Anglican Church, 107
Anglo-conformity, 27-28, 319
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, 329
Anneke-Giesler, Mathilde Franziska, 286
Anthony, Susan B., 286
Anti-Defamation League, 446
Anti-Irish Riots of 1844, 29-33, 559
Antin, Mary, 228
Anti-Popery Union, 559
Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996, 196
Aoki, Shuzo, 278-279, 438-440
APA. See American Protective Association
APALA. See Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance
Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services, 36
Arab immigrants, 41-49; intergroup relations, 33-38; and Jews, 454-458; stereotypes, 35, 38-42, 454
Arab World and Islamic Resources and School Services, 44
Arens, Richard, 359
Argentina, SS, 687
Aristide, Jean-Bertrand, 298-299, 301, 620
Arizona; alien land laws, 21; and Border Patrol, 97; illegal aliens, 335; Japanese immigrants, 204, 434; Latinos, 505, 591, 610; and Mexican War, 101, 484; Operation Wetback, 572-576; welfare system, 566
Arkansas; alien land laws, 21; discriminatory laws, 564; and Operation Wetback, 574; refugee detention camps, 526
Armenians, 229
Arthur, Chester A., 112, 142
Ashkenazic Jews, 49-51, 405-406, 444, 452, 455, 637, 705
Asian American Legal Defense Fund, 56
Asian Americans; advocacy organizations, 56, 76-79, 133-137, 424-427; education, 52-55, 549-554; literature, 57-60; as “model minorities,” 549-554; stereotypes, 52, 60-63, 324, 553; women, 63-67
Asian immigrants; and citizenship, 576-579, 648; mail-order brides, 522; and Page law, 579-583. See also individual ethnic groups
Asian Indian immigrants, 67-71; demographics, 192; families, 72-76; and U.S. Census, 123
Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance, 76-79
Asiatic Barred Zone, 190, 359, 363
Asiatic Exclusion League, 19, 136, 277, 709
Assimilation; and acculturation, 273; and Anglo-conformity, 79-82; differential, 691; and European Americans, 226; and European immigrants, 412; and “model minorities,” 551; and pluralism, 226; processes, 237; and settlement houses, 644; theories, 79-83, 189, 222, 228, 462
As-sing, Norman, 153
Association of Arab American University Graduates, 40, 43
Association of Immigration Attorneys, 382
Asylum, 197-199; and Cubans, 13, 300, 620; and Haitians, 13, 300, 302, 620; and quotas, 380; and refugee fatigue, 612; and Salvadorans, 548; and Truman, Harry S., 322; and U.S. refugee policy, 310-315, 378, 381, 459, 614-616, 618-619
Atta, Mohammed, 641
Au pairs, 84
Australia, 67, 607, 683
Australian immigrants, 347, 352; mail-order brides, 523
AWAIR. See Arab World and Islamic Resources and School Services
AWOC. See Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee
Aztecs, 127, 483
Aztlán, 126
Bailey, David, 581-582
Balaguer, Joaquín, 208
Baldwin, James, 510
Baltic immigrants, 50, 242. See also Lithuanian immigrants
Baltimore, 131, 270
Bangladeshi immigrants, 72
Baptist Church, 632
Barolini, Helen, 233
Barr, William P., 297
Barry, Leonora, 696
Barsimson, Jacob, 636
Barzun, Jacques, 216
Beck, Roy, 374
Belize, 689
Bell, Thomas, 229
Bellow, Saul, 216, 230
Berkman, Alexander, 585
Bernstein, Robert L., 311
Bible, 30, 32, 404, 559
Bigler, John, 154
Bilingual education, 28, 85-96, 218, 499-503; and Chicano movement, 128; and cultural pluralism, 189; and Dominican immigrants, 209; and English-only movement, 216; and generational acculturation, 275; and Proposition 227, 600-604. See also Education
Bilingual Education Act of 1968, 85, 90-96, 501
Birmingham church bombing, 479
Birth of a Nation (film), 478
Bjarni Herjolfsson, 630
Black, Hugo L., 479
Blackmun, Harry A., 297, 501
Blyden, Edward, 691
Bohemians, 271; in literature, 230,

508
Bok, Edward, 229
Bolivians, 487
Border Patrol, U.S., 96-103, 328, 367-368, 460; deportation power, 101; and Homeland Security Department, 329; and  illegal aliens, 335; and Operation Wetback, 574-575
Border Security Act of 2001, 641
Borjas, George, 375
Boston; Chinatown, 131; Chinese immigrants, 136; Gypsy immigrants, 296; Immigration Restriction League, 350; Irish immigrants, 398; Italian immigrants, 410, 514; West Indian immigrants, 689
Bowsher v. Synar, 372
Box, John, 98, 101
Boyle, T. Coraghessan, 233
Bracero program, 103-107, 191, 252, 385; and Operation Wetback, 573-575; and unionization, 251-252, 255
Bradford, William, 507
Bradshaw, Virginia, 659
Bradstreet, Anne, 507
Brazil, 50; African slaves, 484; black population, 609; Jewish settlers, 443, 450-451, 636
Breckinridge, Sophonisba, 646
Brennan, William Joseph, Jr., 566, 591-592
Breslin, Jimmy, 233
Breyer, Stephen G., 712
Brimelow, Peter, 375
British immigrants, 190, 194, 316; in Canada, 608; demographics, 192; as dominant group, 107-109; first settlements, 316, 419-423; Gypsies, 295; indentured servants, 388; Protestants, 235-236; and quotas, 191; war brides, 681-683
Brown v. Board of Education, 206, 499
Brownell, Herbert, 574
Bryan, William Jennings, 20
Buck, Pearl S., 22, 23
Buck v. Bell, 592
Buddhism, 67; and Koreans, 468, 473, 476; and Southeast Asians, 651; and Vietnamese, 673
Buffalo Hump, 286
Burger, Warren E., 372, 501, 564, 591-592
Burlingame, Anson, 111
Burlingame Treaty, 109-113, 141-142
Burma, 324
Bush, George, 85, 298-299, 302, 436; and Haiti, 620
Bush, George W.; and Homeland Security Department, 328, 639; and Mexico, 335
Cabell v. Chavez-Salido, 564
Cable, John L., 113-115
Cable Act of 1922, 113-115, 425
Cabot, John, 409
CACA. See Chinese American Citizens Alliance
Cadwalader, George, 31
Cahan, Abraham, 228
California; Agricultural Labor Relations Act of 1975 (California), 251, 254; alien land laws, 19-21; Angel Island, 432, 434, 546, 696; Arab immigrants, 34; Asian Americans, 64; Asian immigrants, 69; and Border Patrol, 97; Chinatowns, 131-132; Chinese immigrants, 136, 155; Delano Grape Strike, 128, 253, 255; Filipino immigrants, 259-261, 264; gold rush, 115-119, 146, 151-156, 160; Hmong immigrants, 324; illegal aliens, 335; Jamaican immigrants, 417; Japanese immigrants, 277, 425, 431, 438-443, 709; Korean immigrants, 467, 544; and Ku Klux Klan, 480; Latinos, 128, 505, 591, 610; Little Saigon, 54; Little Tokyos, 516; Mexican immigrants, 536; natural disasters, 598; Operation Wetback, 572-576; Proposition 187, 268, 461, 598-600, 602; Proposition 227, 28, 85, 502, 532, 600-604; segregation in, 278, 708; Sikh immigrants, 648; Southeast Asian immigrants, 650; Taiwanese immigrants, 655; Thai garment workers, 657-659; undocumented immigrants, 598-600; Vietnamese immigrants, 672. See also Los Angeles; San Francisco
California, University of, 63, 600
Callaghan, Morley, 510
Cambodia, 23-24, 526, 671
Cambodian immigrants, 53, 62, 64, 649-650
Canada; Arab immigrants, 33, 36; Asian immigrants, 63-64, 67-68; bilingualism, 89; borders, 97; Chinatowns, 193; Chinese immigrants, 155; Filipino immigrants, 259, 264; and Japan, 193; Japanese immigrants, 62; Japanese internment, 57, 517; Korean immigrants, 474; Little Tokyos, 517; Muslim immigrants, 557; Sikh immigrants, 648; Southeast Asian immigrants, 650; and U.S. Border Patrol, 96, 98-99
Canadian immigrants in the United States, 192
Capra, Frank, 414
Caputo, Philip, 233
Carino v. University of Oklahoma Board of Regents, 2
Carmichael, Stokely, 691
Carr, Matthew, 258
Carter, Jimmy, 486; and Mariel boatlift, 525-527
Castañeda v. Pickard, 502
Castillo, Ana, 509
Castro, Fidel, 176-178, 180-181, 183-187, 247, 486, 512; and González, Elián, 290-293; and Mariel boatlift, 524-528
Cather, Willa, 230, 508
CCBA (Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association). See Chinese Six Companies
Cédras, Raoul, 299
Celtic Irish, 119-120
Censuses, U.S., 120-125; and slaves, 6. See also Demographics
Center for Constitutional Rights,

313
Central Intelligence Agency, 324
Chadha, Jagdish, 371
Chae Chan Ping v. United States, 144-146, 563
Chávez, César, 128, 251-257
Chen, Lily Lee, 132
Cherokee Nation v. Georgia, 202
Cherokee Tobacco case, 202
Chesapeake Bay Colony, 5, 388, 419-420
Cheunchijit, Rojana, 658-659
Cheung Wong v. Immigration and Naturalization Service, 567
Chew Heong v. United States, 144-146
Chew v. Colding, 563
Chiang Kai-shek, 656
Chiang Kai-shek, Madame, 354
Chicago, 193; Arab immigrants, 36; Asian Americans, 64; Chinatown, 131; Chinese immigrants, 136; Filipino immigrants, 261; garment industry, 270-271; Gypsy immigrants, 296; Hull-House, 332-334, 644; Irish immigrants, 398; Italian immigrants, 410, 514; Korean immigrants, 474; in literature, 230, 232, 507; Little Tokyo, 518; machine politics, 399, 519; Mexican immigrants, 101, 536; South Asian immigrants, 72
Chicago Immigrant Protective League, 697
Chicano movement, 125-130
Chicanos. See Mexican immigrants
Chile, 620
Chiles, Lawton M., Jr., 185, 267-269,

394
Chin, Frank, 58
China; and Burlingame Treaty, 109-113, 141-142; establishment of People’s Republic, 355; and Great Britain, 110, 146; Hmongs, 324; and Japan, 158; Nationalist government, 354; and Opium Wars, 146; Taiping Rebellion, 545; and Taiwan, 22, 656; and Tibet, 659-661; war brides, 681; and World War II, 143, 148, 354, 614. See also Taiwan
Chinatowns, 54, 130-133, 134, 355; and generational acculturation, 273; in literature, 57; and Little Tokyos, 517; Los Angeles, 160; San Francisco, 141, 147, 151-156, 158, 161-163; Vancouver, British Columbia, 193
Chinda, Viscount, 19-20
Chinese; and California gold rush, 151-155; New York detentions, 138-140
Chinese American Citizens Alliance, 133-137
Chinese Americans; and education, 52; and U.S. Census, 123
Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association. See Chinese Six Companies
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, 140-144, 157, 274, 277, 321, 562, 608; amendment of, 136, 162, 204; and Border Patrol, 97; and California nativists, 147, 154; and congressional powers, 563; and exclusion cases, 144-146; exemptions to, 349; and Japanese immigrants, 432; renewal of, 112, 354, 709; repeal of, 353-356; and Wong Kim Ark case, 699-701
Chinese exclusion cases, 144-146
Chinese immigrants, 146-150, 354, 608, 694; and California’s gold rush, 151-155; demographics, 192; families, 155-160; and quotas, 347; stereotypes, 57, 137, 159. See also Taiwanese immigrants
Chinese Six Companies (Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association), 135-136, 154, 160-163
Chinese stereotypes, 404; coolies, 174-176
Chisholm, Shirley, 691
Choephel, Ngavong, 660
Chopin, Kate, 508
Church bill. See Refugee Relief Act of 1953
CIA. See Central Intelligence Agency
Ciardi, John, 233
“Circular migration,” 491
Cisneros, Sandra, 509
Citizens’ Committee on Displaced Persons, 615
Citizenship, 164-168; and Asians, 576-579, 648; and Cable Act, 113-115; and foreign parentage, 571-572; and Fourteenth Amendment, 568, 700; and Native Americans, 121, 166; naturalization rules, 569-570; and Puerto Ricans, 196, 489; and war brides, 688
Citizenship Act of 1924, 166
Citizenship and Immigration Services, U.S., 328, 335, 369, 641
Civil Liberties Act of 1988, 436
Civil Rights Act of 1964, 1-2, 92, 201, 206, 499, 565
Civil Rights cases, 205
Civil War, U.S., 111, 281, 320; German immigrants in, 286; Irish in, 400;  and Jews, 445; and Ku Klux Klan, 477; Scotch-Irish immigrants in, 635; and slavery, 7
Cixi, 111
CLAO. See Council of Lebanese American Organizations
Clark, Hugh, 32
Clarke, Edward Young, 479, 586
Cleveland, Grover, 341, 344
Clinton, Bill, 182, 196, 302, 527, 620, 660; and Cuba, 184-187
Clinton, Hillary Rodham, 556
Clotilde slave ship, 168-171
Coast Guard, U.S., 172-174; and Chinese immigrants, 138-139; and Cuban immigrants, 185, 187, 290-293, 526; and Haitian boat people, 297-300; and Homeland Security Department, 330
Cocaine, 172-173
Cohn, Fannia, 272
COINS, 123
Cold War, 599; and Cuban policy, 185
Colombia; drug traffic, 294; refugees from, 487
Colorado; anti-Chinese rioting, 134; Chinatowns, 131; Chinese immigrants, 136; Hmong immigrants, 324; Latinos, 128, 505, 610
Colt, LeBaron, 346
“Columbia,” 236
Columbus, Christopher, 409
Community-oriented policing; and illegal aliens, 336
Compassion fatigue, 612-614
Connecticut; garment industry, 270; Irish immigrants, 233; Jamaican immigrants, 417; West Indian immigrants, 689, 691
Constitution, U.S., 18, 444, 564, 570; and alien rights, 294, 562; and census, 121, 607; and citizenship, 164, 562; and English language, 218; and Native Americans, 202; and naturalization, 167, 570; and Proposition 187, 598-599; and slavery, 6, 201. See also individual amendments
Cooke, Alistair, 216
Coolidge, Calvin, 345, 704
Coolies, 61, 141, 174-176, 699; and Page law, 580; and stereotypes,

159
Costa Rica, 525, 668, 677
Cotton farming, 97, 99, 483; mechanization of, 605; and slavery, 6
Council of Lebanese American Organizations, 45
Crèvecœur, Michel-Guillaume-Jean de, 507, 529
Crimean War, 281
Criminal law, 367; and deportation, 198-199, 381, 564; and hate crime, 45; and Hmong marriages, 326; and illegal aliens, 20, 334-336, 368, 385, 526; and immigration, 240, 294, 677, 680; and Ku Klux Klan, 479; and youth gangs, 500
Cronkite, Walter, 216
Cruz, Philip Vera, 77
Cuba; and González, Elián, 290-293; and Mariel boatlift, 524-528; Santería, 629-630
Cuban Adjustment Act of 1966, 181
Cuban immigrants, 176-180, 489; and African Americans, 180-184; businesses, 247, 512-514; and U.S. Census, 123; demographics, 192; deportation of, 181, 527; families, 494, 496; and Haitians, 14; holidays, 498; and immigration law, 384, 386, 697; and Little Havana, 512-514; as “model minority,” 550; stereotypes, 527; and U.S. refugee policy, 184-187
Cultural pluralism, 188-190, 215, 218, 273, 644
Cummings, Samuel, 258
Customs and Border Protection, 97
Dalai Lama, 659-661
Daley, Richard J., 519
Darwin, Charles, 560
Daugherty, James, 587
Davenport, Charles B., 704
Davis, Edward Bertrand, 268
Davis, James J., 99
Dawes Act of 1887, 166
Declaration of Independence, 201
Declaratory Act of 1766 (Great Britain), 165
Delano Grape Strike, 128, 253, 255
Delaware; Iranian immigrants, 394
Demographics, 120-125, 190-195, 373-374; Africans, 6; Arab Americans, 33-34, 44, 454-455; Asian Americans, 52, 63; and Chinatowns, 132; Chinese immigrants, 146; Dominican immigrants, 208; European immigrants, 225, 281; Filipino immigrants, 261; illegal aliens, 334; immigrants, 638, 641; Indian and Pakistani immigrants, 72; Israeli immigrants, 405-406, 408; Italian immigrants, 409, 514; Jamaican immigrants, 417; Japanese immigrants, 277; Jewish immigrants, 50, 454; Korean immigrants, 467, 470, 474; Latinos, 489, 496, 533; Pacific islanders, 305; Southeast Asian immigrants, 650, 672; trends, 606-612; Vietnamese immigrants, 672. See also Censuses, U.S.
Denmark, 229, 318
Deportation, 195-200, 384, 562-563, 711-712; and Alien Act, 16; of Arabs, 46; and Border Patrol, U.S., 101; of Chinese, 145, 157; and communists, 357; of Cubans, 181, 527; of Garvey, Marcus, 669; of Haitians, 181, 302; of illegal aliens, 294, 336-337; and Immigration and Naturalization Service, 367-368; and immigration law, 377-378, 380-382; and literary tests, 342; of Mexicans, 106, 127, 533-537, 572-576; and Operation Wetback, 106; Palmer raids, 584-589; and Patriot Act, 641; rates, 167; of refugees, 310-312, 548, 618, 620; and terrorist attacks, 642; and war brides, 683, 687
Deportation Act of 1929, 535
Depression era, 191, 319, 572, 596, 697; and Asian Indian immigrants, 68; and Canada, 194; Dust Bowl migrants, 253; and Jews, 446; in literature, 508; and machine politics, 520; Mexican deportations, 127, 533-537; trade unions, 61
Detroit, 183, 456; Arab immigrants, 34, 36, 41-42, 47, 455, 610; Chinese immigrants, 136; Ford Motor Company English school, 224; Maronite immigrants, 48; Mexican immigrants, 536; police brutality in, 183
DeVoto, Bernard, 233
Dillingham, William Paul, 344, 346
Dillingham Commission, 244, 349, 543
DiMaggio, Joe, 413
DiPrima, Diane, 233
Disasters, 310, 327-328; in California, 598; and Homeland Security Department, 329
Discrimination, 201-207, 412, 551-552, 564-565; and accents, 1-3; and acculturation, 275; vs. Afro- Caribbeans, 13-14; alien land laws, 19-22; vs. Arab Americans, 36, 40, 42-44, 454; vs. Asian Americans, 56, 65, 77, 319, 321-322; vs. Chinese, 61, 132, 136, 140-147, 154, 156, 158, 161; and civil rights laws, 499; vs. Cuban immigrants, 526-527; vs. Dominican immigrants, 210; and ethnic enclaves, 219-222, 708; vs. European immigrants, 561; vs. Filipino immigrants, 263; vs. Haitians, 302; vs. Hawaiians, 306; and immigration law, 261, 344, 364, 386, 568, 614, 618; vs. Iranians, 394; vs. Irish immigrants, 231, 235, 400, 402-403; vs. Japanese immigrants, 424, 431, 438-443; vs. Jews, 445-446; vs. Latinos, 492, 504-505; in literature, 57; vs. Mexican immigrants, 104, 126-127, 532-537, 666; vs. Polish Americans, 597; vs. war brides, 685; vs. women immigrants, 695, 697
Disney Company, 661
Displaced persons, 359, 594, 614-617
Displaced Persons Act of 1948, 355, 615-616; expiration of, 615
Displaced Persons Commission, 615
Doak, William N., 535-536
Domestic Preparedness, Office of, 329
Dominican immigrants, 207-211, 247, 375, 494; families, 496; holidays, 498; and Puerto Ricans, 210; and Puerto Rico, 486
Dominican Republic, 13, 484, 486
Donato, Pietro di, 233
Donleavy, J. P., 233
Douay Bible, 30
Douglas, William O., 501
Dps. See Displaced persons
Dred Scott v. Sandford, 699
Drug traffic; and Coast Guard, U.S., 172
D’Souza, Dinesh, 689
Duane, William, 17, 258
Dukakis, Michael, 629
Duke, David, 480
Dunne, Peter Finley, 231
Dust Bowl, 253
Dutch immigrants, 107, 225, 235, 318, 544
Dutch West India Company, 443, 450-452, 636
Duvalier, François, 298, 301, 620
Duvalier, Jean-Claude, 298, 301
Eastern European Jewish immigrants. See Jewish immigrants, Eastern European
Eaton, Edith Maud (Sui Sin Far), 57
Eaton, Winifred (Onoto Watanna), 57
Ebonics, 602
EBPSUSA. See El Bireh Palestine Society of the USA
Ecuador, 91
Education, 247, 460-461, 565-566; and Amerasians, 25; and Arab Americans, 35, 43-45; and Asian Americans, 52-55, 64-65, 69-70, 74, 77, 549-554; and assimilation, 82, 275; and Chinese, 158-159; and cultural pluralism, 189; and discrimination, 206; and Hmongs, 53-54, 62, 325; and illegal aliens, 590-593; and immigration policy, 191, 194; and Jamaicans, 417-418; and Japanese, 278, 438-443, 708; and Koreans, 468, 474; and Laotians, 54; and Latinos, 491, 494, 506; and “model minorities,” 550, 552-553; and Pacific islanders, 305, 307; and Roman Catholic Church, 238; and Scandinavians, 238; and Taiwanese, 655; teachers, 238; and Vietnamese, 675; and West Indians, 689. See also Bilingual education
EEOC. See Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Eisenhower, Dwight D., 361, 574, 616
El Bireh Palestine Society of the USA, 45
El Salvadoran immigrants, 193, 313, 548, 619-620
Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, 92-93
Eliot, T. S., 510
Ellis Island, ii, xxvi, 225, 241-242, 318, 352, 363, 544, 563; closing of, 244; creation of reception center, 235, 240; detention pen, 197; health inspectors, 317
Ellison, Ralph, 508
Emergency Quota Act of 1921, 346,

534
Employment Equity Act of 1986 (Canada), 474
English as a second language, 87, 501, 545
English language, 107, 375, 462; and accent discrimination, 1-3; and Anglo-American conformity, 28; and assimilation, 80, 82; and bilingual education, 85-96, 499-503; development programs, 87; and Filipinos, 263; and Japanese, 440; and Latinos, 484, 492; and mail-order brides, 523; in Philippines, 259; and settlement houses, 644; and war brides, 685. See also Languages
English-only and official English movements, 214-219
English Plus, 218
Enhanced Border Security and Visa Entry Reform Act of 2002, 335
Equal Educational Opportunities Act of 1974, 501
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, 201
Escalante, Jaime, 602
Escueta, Mel, 59
Eskimos, 123, 609
ESL. See English as a second language
Espinoza v. Farah Manufacturing Co.,

565
Ethiopian immigrants, 8, 312, 551
Ethiopian Jews, 540
Ethnic enclaves, 66, 90, 219-222, 344, 618; and acculturation, 273; Afro-Caribbean, 14; Asian, 62; Chinese, 130-133; Cuban, 492, 512-514; and discrimination, 708; Irish, 398; Italian, 412, 514-516; Japanese, 516-518, 708; Jewish, 50; Swedish, 631; West Indian, 689. See also Chinatowns; Koreatowns; Little Havana; Little Italies; Little Jerusalem; Little Saigon; Little Tokyos
Eugenics movement, 322, 345, 347, 560, 702-707
Euro-Americans, 222-224
European immigrants, 235-245; family businesses, 247; literature, 224-234; and U.S. policy, 340, 349, 352, 359. See also individual nationalities
Evacuation Claims Act of 1948, 429
Ex parte Endo, 430
Ex parte Milligan, 430
Executive Order 9066, 424, 426, 428, 430, 434, 710
Expropriation Act of 1907, 114
FAA. See Federal Aviation Administration
Falasha Jews, 540
Family businesses, 246-250; Jewish, 454; Korean, 469-472; Pacific islanders, 308
FAN. See Feminist Arab Network
Fante, John, 233
Farm Workers Association. See National Farm Workers Association
Farmworkers’ union, 251-257
Farrakhan, Louis, 62
Farrell, James T., 232
FBI. See Federal Bureau of Investigation
Federal Aviation Administration, 46
Federal Bureau of Investigation, 45, 428, 479, 585
Federal Emergency Management Agency, 328-329
Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, 329
Federal Protective Service, 329
Federal riot of 1799, 257-258
Feinstein, Dianne, 269
Feminist Arab Network, 36
Ferlinghetti, Lawrence, 233, 414
Ferraro, Geraldine, 414
Fiancées Act of 1946, 683
Fifteenth Amendment, 205
Fifth Amendment, 294, 712; due process clause, 712
Fiji, 67
Filipino immigrants, 258-264; and citizenship, 61; demographics, 192; families, 264-267; and Gentlemen’s Agreement, 280; mail-order brides, 522; and U.S. Census, 123, 261; war brides, 685. See also Philippines
Fillmore, Millard, 465
Films; and Arab stereotypes, 40; and Chinese stereotypes, 137; and Italian stereotypes, 413
Finns, 634
First Amendment, 17, 563
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 232, 510
Flaherty, Joe, 233
Florida; bilingual education, 91; citrus industry, 241; Cuban immigrants, 176-177, 179-184, 247, 375, 512-514, 524-528; Dominican immigrants, 208; and González, Elián, 290-293; Haitian immigrants, 181, 300, 302; illegal-immigrant suit, 267-269; Iranian immigrants, 394; Jamaican immigrants, 417; Latinos, 610; Spanish settlements, 316, 610; Vietnamese immigrants, 672. See also Miami
Flower Drum Song (Rodgers and Hammerstein), 131
Foley v. Connelie, 564
Fong Yue Ting v. United States, 144-146, 563
Forant Act of 1885, 546
Ford, Gerald, 613
Ford, Henry, 446
Foster, Bill, 169-170
Fourteenth Amendment, 145, 162, 164, 166, 205, 500, 699; and citizenship, 568, 700; equal protection clause, 205, 461, 564-566, 590; and segregation, 499
Fourth Amendment, 563, 566
Fox, Vicente, 335
Fragante v. City and County of Honolulu, 2
France, 628; and Alien and Sedition Acts, 15-18; citizenship in, 23; Gypsies, 295
Frank, Leo, 446
French Canadians, 508
French immigrants, 225, 295, 318, 507, 529, 544
Frumkin, Robert, 457
Fujimori, Albert, 437
Fuller, Alvan T., 628
Fuller, Melville W., 701
Gage, Henry, 709
Galarza, Ernesto, 252
Gallagher, Tess, 233
Gallatin, Albert, 17
Galvan v. Press, 564
Garment industry, 71, 76, 213, 270-272; Thai worker enslavement, 657-659; Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire, 661-663; and women, 697-698
Garvey, Marcus, 13, 417, 508, 667-670, 691
Geary Act of 1892, 136, 143, 145, 157
General Trades Union of Philadelphia, 29-30
Generational acculturation, 273-276
Gentlemen’s Agreement, 19-20, 276-280, 433, 696, 710; and San Francisco school segregation, 441
Georgia, 183; Gypsy immigrants, 296; and Ku Klux Klan, 478-479; lynching, 446; slavery, 286
German American Alliance, 287
German immigrants, 235, 281-290; and alcohol, 236; demographics, 192; language, 216; and Native Americans, 286; and slavery, 286; stereotypes, 545
Gerstäcker, Friedrich, 286
Ghadr Party, 648
Ghettos. See Ethnic enclaves
Gibran, Kahlil, 47
Gingrich, Newt, 269
Gioia, Dana, 233
Gitanos (Gypsies), 296
Godfather, The (Puzo), 226, 413
Gold, Michael, 230
Gold rush, Alaska, 708
Gold rush, California, 115-119, 146, 156, 160; and Chinese immigrants, 151-155
Goldman, Emma, 585
Gonzaga University, 24
Gonzáles, Rodolfo “Corky,” 128
González, Elián, 290-293
Gonzalez, M. C., 505
Gorbachev, Mikhail, 654
Gordon, Mary, 233
Gore, Al, 660
Gotti, John, 413
Graham v. Richardson, 566
Grant, Madison, 345, 347, 554-555, 560
Grant, Ulysses S., 445
Graves, Earl, 691
Gray, Horace, 700
Great Britain; and China, 110, 146; colonial influence of, 107-109; Declaratory Act of 1766, 165; and Jamaica, 416; Poor Law Extension Act of 1847, 396; and slave trade, 6, 169; and XYZ affair, 15
Green, John, 109
Green, Rose Basile, 233
Green, William, 99
Green cards, 293-295, 379-380
GTU. See General Trades Union of Philadelphia
Guadalupe Hidalgo, Treaty of, 126, 128, 484, 724
Guadeloupe, 9
Guam, 305, 485
Guatemala, 484; refugees from, 312-313, 619-620; schools, 91
Guatemalan immigrants, 193
Guo Liang Chi, 140
Gutiérrez, José Ángel, 128
Guyana, 13, 630, 689
Gypsy immigrants, 295-297; stereotypes, 296
Hague, Frank, 519
Haiti, 620; U.S. occupation of, 8
Haitian immigrants, 8-9, 300-303; boat people, 9, 297-300; and Cubans, 14; deportation of, 181, 302; and immigration law, 386
Hakluyt, Richard, 507
Hamill, Pete, 233
Hampton v. Mow Sun Wong, 565
Hansen, Marcus Lee, 303
Hansen effect, 303-304
Hanson, John, 631
Harding, Warren G., 345-346, 587
Harlan, John Marshall, 701
Harlem Renaissance, 417, 508
Harrison, Earl G., 615
Hart-Celler Act of 1965, 463
Hate crime; and Arabs, 35, 44-45; and Muslims, 556
Hauge, Hans Neilsen, 632
Haugeans, 632
Hawaii, 304-308; Asian Americans, 64; Chinese immigrants, 155; English language in, 1-2; Filipino immigrants, 2, 259, 261, 264; and Gentlemen’s Agreement, 279; and Immigration Act of 1943, 354; indigenous population, 123; Japanese immigrants, 277, 279, 425, 431; Korean immigrants, 473-474, 544; and Native Americans, 124; Ozawa v. United States, 576-579; picture brides, 589-590; sugar industry, 260, 277, 439, 473; and U.S. Census, 123
Hayakawa, S. I., 216
Hayashi, Tadasu, 279-280
Hayes, Rutherford B., 112, 142
Haywood, Bill, 588
Head money cases, 309
Head taxes, 100-101, 309, 534-535
Hearst, William Randolph, 440
Helsinki Watch, 310-315
Helton, Arthur C., 311
Hemingway, Ernest, 510
Henry, Patrick, 165
Himes, Chester, 510
“Hindoo” conspiracy trials, 648
Hinojosa, Rolando, 509
Hirabayashi v. United States, 429, 435
Hirohito, 687
Hispanics. See Cuban immigrants; Dominican immigrants; Latinos; Mexican immigrants; Puerto Ricans
Hitler, Adolf, 446-447, 604, 704-705
Hmong immigrants, 64, 324-327, 552, 650, 652, 671; and education, 53-54, 62; families, 650-651
Ho, Fred, 59
Holder, Eric, 691
Holocaust, 455, 463, 604, 614
Homeland Security Act of 2002, 173, 328; and illegal aliens, 335
Homeland Security Department, 327-332, 335, 369; and Border Patrol, U.S., 96, 335; and Coast Guard, U.S., 172-174; creation of, 639
Homestead Act of 1862, 632
Hoover, Herbert, 535
Hoover, J. Edgar; and Palmer raids, 585
Houdini, Harry (Erik Weisz), 213
Howard, Maureen, 233
Howe, Harold, II, 92
Howells, William Dean, 231
Hudspeth, Claude, 100
Huerta, Dolores, 251
Hughes, Charles Evans, 97-98
Hughes, Langston, 508
Huguenots, 544
Hull-House, 332-334; cooking class, 644
Human Rights Watch, 310
Humphrey, Hubert H., 359
Hungarian immigrants, 50, 224, 543, 616, 693
Hunter, Evan, 233
Hutterites, 285
Hwang, David Henry, 59
I-Hsin, 111
ICEM. See Intergovernmental Committee for European Migration
Idaho; alien land laws, 21; Chinatowns, 131; English-only movement, 585
ILGWU. See International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union
Illegal aliens. See Illegal immigration
Illegal immigration, 334-338, 372-376, 378, 533-537, 665-666; and education, 590-593; and immigration law, 383-387; and Operation Wetback, 572-576; and Page law, 579-583; and refugees, 619
Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996, 196, 367, 378
Illinois; Asian Americans, 64; Asian Indian immigrants, 69; Chinese immigrants, 155; Japanese immigrants, 425; Korean immigrants, 467; Latinos, 610; Mexican immigrants, 101; and Operation Wetback, 574. See also Chicago
Immigrant advantage, 338-339
Immigration; and Coast Guard, U.S., 172; and Homeland Security Department, 328; and illegal aliens, 334-338
Immigration Act of 1882, 240
Immigration Act of 1903, 349
Immigration Act of 1907, 710
Immigration Act of 1917, 68, 339-343, 546; and Asiatic Barred Zone, 190; and head tax, 534
Immigration Act of 1921, 343-348, 352
Immigration Act of 1924 (National Origins Act), 21, 42, 51, 123, 136, 147, 244, 274, 322, 349-353, 463, 547, 694, 704; and Japanese, 578; and trade unions, 587
Immigration Act of 1943, 163, 353-356, 684
Immigration Act of 1965, 322, 697
Immigration Act of 1986; marriage fraud provision, 380, 524
Immigration Act of 1990, 313, 356-358, 463
Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Bureau of, 369
Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter Act), 24, 62, 322, 358-362, 377, 426, 463, 547, 578, 677, 682, 684, 697; amendments of, 194; and Japanese immigrants, 435; and West Indians, 417
Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, 43, 68, 123, 148, 191, 352, 355, 362-366, 373, 378, 499, 547; amendment of, 384; and Korean immigrants, 474; and Taiwanese, 655
Immigration and Naturalization Service, 97, 312-313, 334-338, 366-371, 506, 574; and Florida illegal-immigrant suit, 267-269; and green cards, 293; and Homeland Security Department, 640; Operation Wetback, 572-576; reorganization of, 335; and Thai garment workers, 657-659
Immigration and Naturalization Service v. Chadha, 371-372
Immigration Commission, United States, 344, 349
Immigration “crisis,” 372-376
Immigration history, 316-323
Immigration law, 376-383; and deportation, 195-200, 377-378, 380-382; and discrimination, 344, 364, 386, 568, 614, 618; and terrorist attacks, 641
Immigration quotas. See Quotas
Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, 62, 191, 336, 378, 383-387, 463, 532, 547; and au pairs, 84; and employment, 492; revision of, 357
Immigration Restriction League, 344, 350
Indentured servitude, 387-390; and African immigrants, 483, 609; and Asian immigrants, 67; and British immigrants, 317; and Chinese immigrants, 133, 139, 699; and English immigrants, 107; and slavery, 4; and women, 695
Indian Civil Rights Act of 1968, 203
Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act, 203
Indiana, 101
Indians. See Asian Indian immigrants; Native Americans
Indians, American. See Native Americans
Indigenous superordination,

391-392
Indonesia, 612
Industrial Workers of the World, 587-588
INS. See Immigration and Naturalization Service
Institute for Palestine Studies, 45
Intergovernmental Committee for European Migration, 616
Internal Security Act of 1951, 359
International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, 271, 662, 697
International Red Cross. See Red Cross
International Refugee Organization, 615-616
IPS. See Institute for Palestine Studies
Iran, 620
Iranian immigrants, 392-395
IRCA. See Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986
Irish immigrants, 119-120, 236, 281-284, 318, 395-400, 543; and African Americans, 400-401; and alcohol, 236; demographics, 225-226, 235; and discrimination, 402; employment of, 238; and Federal riot of 1799, 257-258; and immigration law, 340; and nativism, 29-33, 559; persecution of, 320; and Philadelphia riots, 29-33; and Poles, 594; prejudice against, 320; and Roman Catholic Church, 29-33, 402, 559; Scotch-Irish, 107, 120, 235, 402, 635-636; and slavery, 237, 400; stereotypes, 282, 399, 403-405, 545; women, 696
Irish riot. See Federal riot of 1799
IRO. See International Refugee Organization
Irving, Washington, 509
Israel; and American Jewish Committee, 26; and American Jews, 448, 455-457; and Arab Americans, 41-42, 46-47, 455-457; and Falasha Jews, 540; and Israeli Americans, 405-409; and Russian Jews, 625, 653
Israeli immigrants, 405-409; stereotypes, 407. See also Jewish immigrants
Italian immigrants, 409-415; businesses, 514-516; demographics, 192; Little Italies, 514-516; and “mongrelization,” 555; and nativism, 560; stereotypes, 226, 409, 414
Italy, 628
IWW. See Industrial Workers of the World
Jackson, Jesse, 36
JACL. See Japanese American Citizens League
Jamaica, 363; Rastafarian movement, 13
Jamaican immigrants, 9, 181, 247-248, 415-419; and education, 417, 418; Garvey, Marcus, 667; and Santería, 630
James, Henry, 231, 510
Jamestown colony, 4, 410, 419-423
Japan; and Amerasian children, 23-24; and Canada, 193; and China, 158; and Gentlemen’s Agreement, 19, 276-280, 433, 441, 710; and Russia, 709; U.S. air bases in, 22; U.S. occupation of, 22; and World War II, 62, 437
Japanese American Citizens League, 424-427, 710
Japanese American internment, 62, 321, 427-430, 431-432, 437; in fiction, 57; and Japanese Peruvians, 437-438; and Little Tokyos, 517
Japanese Americans; businesses, 516-518; and education, 52; and generational acculturation, 274; as “model minority,” 550; and U.S. Census, 123
Japanese and Korean Exclusion League, 277-278, 709
Japanese Exclusion League, 440-441
Japanese immigrants, 321, 431-436, 694; in Canada, 517; and education, 278, 438-443; generational acculturation, 685; and Hawaiian sugar industry, 277; and immigration policy, 349; Little Tokyos, 516-518; and picture brides, 589-590; and quotas, 347; segregation in California schools, 278, 438-443, 708; stereotypes, 57, 61; and U.S. citizenship, 576-579; women, 696; and “yellow peril” campaign, 707-711
Japanese Peruvians, 437-438
Japantowns. See Little Tokyos
JDL. See Jewish Defense League
JDO. See Jewish Defense Organization
Jedlicka, Davor, 523
Jefferson, Thomas, 17-18, 410
Jewish Defense League, 457-458
Jewish Defense Organization, 457
Jewish immigrants, 443-449; advocacy organizations, 26-27; and Arab Americans, 454-458; Ashkenazic, 49-51, 405-406, 444, 452, 455, 637, 705; and Canadian immigration policy, 194; Eastern European, 212-214; Ethiopian, 540; garment workers, 271; and generational acculturation, 273; German, 282, 284-285; intermarriage of, 82; Israeli, 405-409; and Ku Klux Klan, 479, 586; literature of, 226, 228-230; and “mongrelization,” 555; and nativism, 560; prejudice against, 236; and Roman Catholic Church, 636; Russian, 604, 622-623, 625, 653-655; Sephardic, 34, 405, 408, 444, 452, 454-455, 636-637; settlement of New York, 449-453; stereotypes, 446; and U.S. immigration policy, 614. See also Israeli immigrants
Johnson, Albert, 345-347
Johnson, Hiram Warren, 20
Johnson, Lyndon B., 93, 320, 363; and bilingualism policy, 92-93; and Cuba, 178; on Ku Klux Klan, 480
Johnson-Reid Act. See Immigration Act of 1924
Joy Luck Club, The (Tan), 59, 509
Jungle, The (Sinclair), 230, 507
Justice and immigration, 458-464
Kahakua, James, 2
Kang, Younghill, 57
Kansas, 21
Kearney, Denis, 142, 349
Kennan, George, 277
Kennedy, Anthony M., 571
Kennedy, Edward, 364
Kennedy, John F., 127, 363, 399; A Nation of Immigrants, xiii
Kennedy, Robert F., 47, 253, 255, 364
Kennedy, William, 232
Kennedy-Donnelly Act of 1988, 547
Kenrick, Francis, 30
Kent State University, 457
Kentucky, 287
Kephart, William M., 523
Khmer, 671
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 479
Kingston, Maxine Hong, 509
Kitazaki, George, 2
KKK. See Ku Klux Klan
Know-Nothing Party, 32, 136, 283, 320, 465
König, Karin, 311
Korean immigrants, 192, 466-469, 544; and African Americans, 469-472; in Canada, 474; and education, 468, 474; families, 473-477
Korean War; and Amerasian children, 22, 24; and Korean immigration, 473; and war brides, 681, 685
Koreatowns, 66, 466, 474
Korematsu v. United States, 204, 430,

435
Kosinski, Jerzy, 230
Kramer, Samuel, 31
Ku Klux Klan, 477-481
Ku Klux Klan Acts of 1870-1871,

478
La Guardia, Fiorello, 414
Ladino, 637
Landon v. Plasencia, 563
Languages, 240, 242, 344, 545; and African immigrants, 171; and Chicano movement, 129; and Chinese immigrants, 131, 158, 163; and Gypsies, 296; of India, 73; and Italian immigrants, 514-515; Japanese, 425; and Jewish immigrants, 637; and Koreans, 467-468, 475; and Latinos, 484, 491, 506; and Mexican immigrants, 484; and Native Americans, 203, 530; and Pacific islanders, 306; Polish, 594; Scandinavian, 632; Spanish, 1, 316; and Taiwanese immigrants, 655; and war brides, 684-685. See also English language
Laos; Amerasians, 24; Hmongs, 324; and Vietnam War, 324
Laotian immigrants, 62, 64, 620, 649-650; and education, 54; Hmongs, 324-327
Larkin, Thomas Oliver, 115
Latinos, 481-488; advocacy organizations, 503-507, 531-533; and education, 491, 494, 506; employment, 488-493; families, 494-499; and Roman Catholic Church, 497; stereotypes, 497. See also individual ethnic groups
Lau v. Nichols, 85, 94, 499-503
Law. See individual acts and Immigration law
Lazarus, Emma, 225
League of United Latin American Citizens, 503-507
League of United Latin American Citizens v. Immigration and Naturalization Service, 506
League of Women Voters, 426
Lebanon, 39, 42, 44-48, 454; civil war, 545
Lee Joe v. United States, 144-146
Leif Eriksson, 630
Levin, Lewis, 30-32
Levy, Asser, 452
Lewisohn, Ludwig, 229
Liberia, 7
Liliuokalani, 307
Lillo, Don De, 233
Lincoln, Abraham, 445
Lindbergh law of 1934, 479
Literacy tests, 97, 100, 204-205, 226, 339-345, 349, 401, 534-535, 561, 697
Literature, 507-512; of Asian Americans, 57-60; of European immigrants, 224-234
Lithuanian immigrants, 271, 595, 623, 711; in literature, 230. See also Baltic immigrants
Little Havana, 512-514
Little Italies, 514-516; and generational acculturation, 273
Little Jerusalem, 445
Little Saigon, 54, 220
Little Tokyos, 516-518; and Chinatowns, 517; and generational acculturation, 273
Lodge, Henry Cabot, 340, 342, 344, 350
London Company, 388, 419
Long, Huey, 519
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 508-509
Loring, H. Sheldon, 581-582
Los Angeles; Arab immigrants, 34, 455, 610; Asian Americans, 64; Chinatown, 130, 132, 160; Chinese immigrants, 136, 141; Citizens Committee on Coordination of Unemployment Relief, 536; Filipino immigrants, 264; Gypsy immigrants, 296; Iranian immigrants, 392; Israeli immigrants, 405; Korean immigrants, 470, 474-475; Little Tokyo, 434, 516-517; Mexican immigrants, 536; riots, 62, 471; Russian immigrants, 622; South Asian immigrants, 72
Lotus Blossom, 57
Louisiana; alien land laws, 21; bilingualism in, 91; French Canadians, 508; Gypsy immigrants, 295; and Ku Klux Klan, 480; machine politics, 519; slavery in, 5; Vietnamese immigrants, 672. See also New Orleans
Louisiana Territory, 316
Luce-Celler Bill of 1946, 648
Lucena, Abraham de, 452
LULAC. See League of United Latin American Citizens
Lutheran Church, 285, 631-632, 634
Lynching, 175, 416, 446, 478
Lyon, Matthew, 17
McCarran, Patrick, 359, 615
McCarran-Walter Act. See Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952
McCarthy, Mary, 232
McCreary Act of 1893, 145
Machine politics, 205, 333, 518-521; and Irish immigrants, 238, 399, 401; Miami, 183
McKay, Claude, 417, 508, 691
McKinley, William, 344
McMichael, Morton, 31
McVeigh, Timothy, 556
Mafia, 413
Magnuson Act. See Immigration Act of 1943
Mail-order brides, 521-524; stereotypes, 523-524
Maine; and Ku Klux Klan, 479; Roman Catholic immigrants, 419; Seeds of Peace camp, 457
Malamud, Bernard, 230
Malawi, 311
Malaysia, 612
Manasurangkun brothers, 657-659
Mandel, Ernest, 563
Mandela, Nelson, 183
Mangione, Jerre, 233
Manzanar Relocation Center, 429
Mao Zedong; and Taiwan, 656
Marcello v. Bonds, 564
Marciano, Rocky, 413
Marcos, Ferdinand, 620
Mariana Islands, 305
Mariel boatlift, 172, 179, 181, 524-528, 620
Maronite Catholic Church. See Orthodox Christians
Marshall, James Wilson, 115
Martin Luther King, Jr., Elementary School Children v. Michigan Board of Education, 501
Martinique, 9, 636
Maryland; Jewish immigrants, 636; and Know-Nothing Party, 465; Korean immigrants, 467; Swedish immigrants, 631. See also Baltimore
Mason, Richard Barnes, 115
Massachusetts; Chinese immigrants, 155; Dominican immigrants, 208; Roman Catholic Church, 320, 559; Sacco and Vanzetti trial, 626-629; Scandinavian immigrants, 632; Swedish immigrants, 631. See also Boston
Mauritius, 67, 522
Maximilian, Alexander Philipp, 286
Mayan, 484
Meagher, Timothy, 169-170
Megapolensis, Dominie Johannes, 451-452
Meissner, Doris, 267-268
Melting pot theory, 90, 224, 226-228, 274, 319, 529-531, 544; and assimilation, 79-82; and Chinese immigrants, 134; critiques of, 189, 462, 548; and cultural pluralism, 188-189; and immigrant motivation, 338; and literature, 226-227
Mennonites, 284, 286, 545
Mestizos, 127, 129, 483
Methodist Church, 285, 632
Meusenbach, John, 286
Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund, 531-533
Mexican Americans. See Mexican immigrants
Mexican deportations, 127, 533-537
Mexican Farm Labor Program. See Bracero program
Mexican immigrants, 484; and Chicano movement, 125-130; deportation of, 572-576; families, 494; holidays, 498; illegal, 334-338; and Ku Klux Klan, 480; laborers, 489-490; and Mexican Revolution, 483; and Sikhs, 648; stereotypes, 127, 575; unemployment among, 491; and U.S. Census, 123
Mexican War, 101, 125-126, 484,

544
“Mexicano,” 127, 251
Mexico; borders, 97, 367, 460, 547; and bracero program, 103-107; indigenous cultures, 483; and Mexican Americans, 125; and Operation Wetback, 572-576
Mezei, Ignatz, 563
MFLP (Mexican Farm Labor Program). See Bracero program
Miami; crime, 526; Cuban immigrants, 482, 486, 512-514; Jamaican immigrants, 417; Little Havana, 512-514; machine politics, 183; Puerto Rican immigrants, 182; West Indian immigrants, 689
Michigan; Arab immigrants, 33, 44; Asian Indian immigrants, 69; Mexican immigrants, 101. See also Detroit
Michlin, Arnold, 456
Middle East Friendship League, 457
Middle Eastern immigrants, 538-541; and U.S. Census, 124. See also Arab immigrants; Iranian immigrants; Israeli immigrants; Jewish immigrants
Migrant superordination, 542
Migration, 542-549
Migration and Refugee Assistance Act of 1962, 697
Miller, Samuel F., 309
Minnesota; alien land laws, 21; Hmong immigrants, 324
Miscegenation laws, 433
Mississippi; civil rights worker murders, 479
Missouri; alien land laws, 21; and California gold rush, 116; German immigrants, 287; machine politics, 399, 519; and Operation Wetback, 574
Mistretta v. United States, 372
Mitchell, George, 47
Model minorities, 549-554; Chinese, 158; stereotypes, 52, 159
Mongrelization, 554-555
Montagnards, 671
Montana, 21, 131, 324
Moore, Robert, 258
Moravians, 271
Mormons, 221, 632
Morrison v. Olson, 372
Mosby, John S., 581-582
Mothers’ Aid Law of 1913, 646
Motley, Constance Baker, 691
Multiculturalism Act of 1988 (Canada), 194
Muslims, 555-558; stereotypes, 556; and terrorist attacks, 641
Mussolini, Benito, 510, 705
Mutual Security Act of 1951, 615
Myanmar, 324
NAAA. See National Association of Arab Americans
NAACP. See National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Nabokov, Vladimir, 230
Nader, Ralph, 371
NAFTA. See North American Free Trade Agreement
Nahuatl, 484
NAM. See National Association of Manufacturers
Nanak Dev, Guru, 647
Nation of Immigrants, A (Kennedy), xiii
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 206, 646, 669
National Association of Arab Americans, 44
National Association of Manufacturers, 587
National Farm Labor Union, 252
National Farm Workers Association, 251-257
National Genetic Diseases Act of 1976, 706
National Lawyers’ Guild, 382
National Origins Act. See Immigration Act of 1924
National Women’s Trade Union League, 272, 646, 662
Nationalist Chinese. See Taiwanese immigrants
Nationality Act of 1870, 160
Native American (newspaper), 31
Native Americans; and citizenship, 121, 166; discrimination against, 202; and German immigrants, 286; and Hawaiians, 124; literature of, 507; and “melting pot,” 529-530; and Pacific islanders, 308; precolonial population, 609; and Scandinavians, 634; and slavery, 317; and U.S. Census, 123; and U.S. Indian policy, 202-203
Native Sons and Daughters of the Golden West, 710
Native Sons of the Golden State, 136
Nativism, 320, 558-562, 702-707; and Asian immigrants, 578; defined, 81; and Italian immigrants, 412-413; and Ku Klux Klan, 322; and Palmer raids, 587-588; and Philadelphia riots, 29-33; and Roman Catholic Church, 559, 586; and Sacco and Vanzetti trial, 626-629; and undocumented workers, 321; and World War I, 91
Naturalization, 167, 562-569; and Cable Act, 114; and Chinese refugees, 355; and green cards, 293-294; and immigration law, 377-378; and Japanese immigrants, 278. See also Citizenship; Immigration and Nationality Acts
Naturalization Act of 1790, 569-570
Naturalization Act of 1798, 16, 257-258; repeal of, 18
Naturalization Act of 1802, 166
Naval Clearing Act of 1962, 305
Neale, Leonard, 258
Nebraska, 223, 230, 508; alien land laws, 21
Neier, Aryeh, 311
Net migration rate, 543
Nevada; Chinatowns, 131
New Jersey; Asian Indian immigrants, 69; Dominican immigrants, 208; Iranian immigrants, 394; Jamaican immigrants, 417; Korean immigrants, 467; Latinos, 610; Orthodox Christian immigrants, 48; Swedish immigrants, 631; West Indian immigrants, 689, 691
New Mexico; alien land laws, 21; Latinos, 128, 505, 591, 610; in literature, 508; and Mexican War, 484; Spanish settlements, 316
New Orleans, 13, 169; Cuban immigrants, 176; German immigrants, 282; Irish immigrants, 397; in literature, 508; slavery in, 5
New York City, 50; Arab immigrants, 34, 455, 610; Asian Americans, 64; Asian immigrants, 71; Chinatown, 131-132; garment industry, 270-271; Gypsy immigrants, 296; Haitian immigrants, 302; Iranian immigrants, 392; Irish immigrants, 398; Israeli immigrants, 405; Italian immigrants, 410-411, 514; Jamaican immigrants, 417; Jewish immigrants, 50; Jewish settlement of, 449-453; Korean immigrants, 470, 474; Little Tokyo, 516, 518; machine politics, 519; Maronite immigrants, 48; Puerto Rican immigrants, 14; Russian immigrants, 271; slavery in, 5; South Asian immigrants, 72; tenements, 229; terrorist attack on, 637-643; Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire, 271, 661-663, 697; West Indian immigrants, 689
New York Indians v. United States, 202
New York State; Asian Americans, 64; Asian Indian immigrants, 69; Chinese immigrants, 155; Dominican immigrants, 208; Haitian immigrants, 300; Iranian immigrants, 394; Japanese immigrants, 425; Korean immigrants, 467; Latinos, 610; Taiwanese immigrants, 655
New Zealanders, 347, 352, 683
Newport, Christopher, 420
Newspapers; anti-Asian, 136; anti-Irish, 403; anti-Jewish, 446; Arab American, 42, 455; Chinese American, 158; foreign-language, 27; German American, 286; Italian American, 515; Japanese American, 425; Jewish, 455; and mail-order brides, 521; Mexican American, 536; nativist, 31, 584
NFLU. See National Farm Labor

Union
NFWA. See National Farm Workers Association
Nguyen, Tuan Anh, 571-572
Nguyen v. Immigration and Naturalization Service, 571-572
Nicaragua, 116, 486
Nicaraguan immigrants, 200
Nigerian immigrants, 8
Nine-Eleven. See September 11 terrorist attacks
Nishimura Ekiu v. United States, 563
Noor, Queen, 47
North American Free Trade Agreement, 461, 733
North Carolina, 444; Hmong immigrants, 324; and Ku Klux Klan, 480
North Dakota, 632
Northwest Arctic School District v. Califano, 502
“Nuyoricans,” 14
NWTUL. See National Women’s Trade Union League
OAP. See Overseas Admission Program
O’Connor, Edwin, 232
O’Connor, Flannery, 232
O’Connor, Sandra Day, 591
OCR. See Office for Civil Rights
Office for Civil Rights, 500-502
Office of Hawaiian Affairs, 307
OHA. See Office of Hawaiian Affairs
O’Hara, Frank, 233
O’Hara, John, 232
Ohio; Asian Indian immigrants, 69; German immigrants, 287; Kent State University, 457; Mexican immigrants, 101
Oklahoma, 508; federal building bombing, 45, 393, 556; Filipino immigrants, 2
Old Owl, 286
Olsen, Tillie, 230
O’Neill, Danny, 232
O’Neill, Eugene, 231-232
Onoto Watanna (Winifred Eaton), 57
Opechancanough, 421
Operation Wetback, 106, 572-576
Opium Wars, 146
Orantes-Hernandez v. Meese, 313
Oregon; alien land laws, 21; Chinatowns, 131; Chinese immigrants, 136; English-only movement, 585; Gypsy immigrants, 296; Japanese immigrants, 425, 516
Organization of American States, 298
Oriental Exclusion Act of 1924, 682, 684, 687
Ortega, Daniel, 486
Orthodox Christians, 42, 44, 48, 622-624
Ottoman Empire, 42
Overseas Admission Program, 312
Ozawa, Takao, 568, 576-579
Ozawa v. United States, 568, 576-579
Ozick, Cynthia, 230
Pacific islanders, 304-308; as Native Americans, 308. See also Hawaiians
Page, Horace F., 580
Page law of 1875, 579-583
Pahlavi, Muhammad Reza, 392, 620
Paine, Thomas, 507
Pakistan, 70, 311
Pakistani immigrants, 71-76
Palmer, A. Mitchell, 584-589
Palmer raids, 584-589
Panama, 668
Park, Robert Ezra, 221
Passenger Cases, 309
Patriot Act of 2001, 641, 734; and illegal aliens, 335
Pearl Buck Foundation, 22
Peerson, Cleng, 631
Peltason, Jack W., 600
Pendergast, Tom, 519
Penelas, Alex, 292
Pennsylvania; Asian Indian immigrants, 69; Chinatowns, 132; garment industry, 270; German immigrants, 216, 284, 286; refugee detention camps, 526; Swedish immigrants, 631; Vietnamese immigrants, 672; welfare system, 566. See also Philadelphia
Peruvian immigrants, 437-438, 487
Phelan, James, 709
Philadelphia; anti-Irish riots, 29-33, 559; Chinatown, 131; Federal riot of 1799, 257-258; garment industry, 270; Italian immigrants, 410, 514; Jewish immigrants, 444; poor house, 390; South Asian immigrants, 72
Philippines, 123, 620; Amerasian children, 23-24; war brides, 681. See also Filipino immigrants
Picture brides, 64, 434, 589-590, 696
Pilgrims, English, 108
Pinochet, Augusto, 620
Plessy v. Ferguson, 205, 322, 439, 499
Plyler v. Doe, 565, 590-593
Plymouth Company, 419
Pocahontas, 421-422
Poe, Edgar Allan, 231
Poitier, Sidney, 691
Polish immigrants, 242, 507, 594-597; stereotypes, 597
Political machines. See Machine

politics
Polk, James K., 115
Poor Law Extension Act of 1847 (Great Britain), 396
Portugal; explorations of, 483; Gypsies, 295; Jews, 636-637; and slave trade, 483
Portuguese immigrants, 306; in Canada, 194
Pound, Ezra, 510
Powell, Lewis F., Jr., 372
Powers, J. F., 233
Powhatan, 421
Powhatan Confederacy, 420
Proposition 187 (California), 268, 461, 598-600, 602
Proposition 227 (California), 28, 85, 502, 532, 600-604
Prostitutes, 320, 343, 545, 645; Asian, 64; Chinese, 175, 580; Filipino, 23; German, 684; and Page law,

579-583
Puerto Ricans, 14, 179; “circular migration,” 491; and citizenship, 196, 489; and Dominicans, 210; families, 496; family life, 494; holidays, 498; occupations of, 490-491; unemployment among, 491; and U.S. Census, 123
Puerto Rico, 485; and Dominican immigrants, 486
Puritans, 107, 507, 604
Push and pull factors, 604-606, 664
Puzo, Mario, 226, 233, 413
Queen Mary, SS, 686, 688
Quota Law of 1921. See Immigration Act of 1921
Quotas, 8, 99, 123, 191, 244, 379, 460-461, 463, 561, 677, 679; and Asian immigrants, 62, 68, 684; and Chinese immigrants, 112, 354; and family members, 380, 677; and Haitian immigrants, 299; and Immigration Act of 1921, 343-348; and Immigration Act of 1924 (National Origins Act), 322, 349-352, 534, 547; and Immigration Act of 1990, 463; and Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952, 359; and Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, 355, 362-365, 547; and Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, 386; and Jewish immigrants, 51; and Latin American immigrants, 99-100; and Mexican immigrants, 97; and refugees, 380, 614-615; and Taiwanese immigrants, 655; and war brides, 682-683
Rabin, Yitzhak, 407
Race mixing, 554-555, 560
Racial and ethnic demographic trends, 606-612
Rahall, Nick Joe, 44
Raleigh, Walter, 419
Randall, Margaret, 196
Reagan, Ronald, 302, 384, 430, 552, 620; and bilingual education, 85, 94; and civil rights, 502; and Cuba, 527
Red Cross, 278, 687
Red Scare, 478, 561, 584-589
“Redemptioners,” 388
Refugee Act of 1980, 179, 191, 311-313, 463, 620, 697
Refugee fatigue, 612-614
Refugee Relief Act of 1953, 355, 361, 548, 614-617
Refugees, 310-315; African, 9; deportation of, 548; Haitians, 297-300; and racial/ethnic relations, 618-621; Tibetans, 659-661; and U.S. policy, 184-187, 524-528
Rehnquist, William H., 372, 591
Reich, Robert B., 658
Religion. See individual religions
Reno, Janet, 267-268; and Cuban refugees, 185, 290-293
Reynolds, James, 258
Rhode Island; Hmong immigrants, 324; Jewish immigrants, 444, 636; and slave trade, 6
Ridge, Tom, 639
Riis, Jacob, 229
Rio Grande, 97, 116, 504, 573-574, 665
Rolfe, John, 422
Rölvaag, O. E., 508
Roman Catholic Church; and Anti-Irish Riots of 1844, 29-33, 559; and the Bible, 30; and education, 238; and Filipino immigrants, 266; and German immigrants, 285; in Guam, 305; hierarchical structure, 235; and Irish immigrants, 29-33, 238, 396-399, 402, 404, 559; and Jews, 636; and Know-Nothing Party, 465; and Ku Klux Klan, 479; and Latinos, 497; and nativism, 559, 586; and Polish immigrants, 594-595; prejudice against, 350; and Santería, 630; and Scandinavian immigrants, 632; and Scotch-Irish, 120; and Spanish immigrants, 177; Ursuline order, 320; and Vietnamese immigrants, 651, 671, 673
Romnichals (Gypsies), 296
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 615
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 398, 520; and Japanese internment, 424, 426, 428, 434, 710
Roosevelt, Theodore, 277-278, 645; and Japanese immigration, 279, 433, 439, 441, 710; on language, 216
Root, Elihu, 278-280, 438
Rosier, James, 419
Roth, Henry, 229
Roth, Philip, 226
Rusk, Dean, 364
Russia; and Japan, 709
Russian immigrants, 242, 622-625; garment workers, 271; mail-order brides, 522
Sabath, Adolph, 346
Sacco, Nicola, 413, 626-629
Sacco and Vanzetti trial, 413, 626-629
St. John, J. Hector, 507, 529
St. Patrick’s Cathedral, 30
Saionji, Kinmochi, 438
Samoans, 123, 305-306
San Francisco; Asian Americans, 64, 438-443; Chinatown, 130-131, 141, 147, 151-156, 158, 161-163, 580; earthquake, 158, 278, 438-439, 710; Gypsy immigrants, 296; Japanese immigrants, 438-443; Little Tokyo, 516; South Asian immigrants, 72; “yellow peril” campaign, 707-711
“Sanctuary laws,” 336
Sandburg, Carl, 229
Santana, 286
Santería, 629-630
Saroyan, William, 229-230
Scandinavian immigrants, 235, 630-634; and education, 238; and Native Americans, 634
Scheuer, James H., 92
Schmitz, Eugene E., 440, 709
Schneider v. Rusk, 568
Schneiderman, Rose, 272
Schneiderman v. United States, 568
Schwarzenegger, Arnold, 216, xiii
Scotch-Irish immigrants, 635-636
Scott, Dred, 592, 699
Scott Act of 1888, 143, 145, 157
Scott v. Sandford, 592
Secret Service, U.S.; and Homeland Security Department, 330
Sedition Act of 1798, 257-258
Seeds of Peace, 457
Segregation, 322, 668; in California, 438-443; and Chinese immigrants, 161; and Japanese Americans, 278, 427, 438-443, 708; and languages, 216; and Mexican Americans, 126, 504; of schools, 206, 499
Select Commission on Immigration and Refugee Policy, 384
Sephardic Jews, 34, 405, 408, 444, 452, 454-455, 636-637
Sephardim. See Sephardic Jews
September 11 terrorist attacks, 39, 173, 327, 637-643; and hate crimes, 45; and Homeland Security Department, 327-332; and illegal aliens, 335; and Immigration and Naturalization Service, 369
Serra, Junípero, 316
Settlement house movement, 643-647; Hull-House, 332-334
Seward, William Henry, 111, 283
Shahn, Bernarda Bryson, 4
Shaughnessy v. United States ex rel. Mezei, 563
Shehhi, Marwan al-, 641
Shenouda III, Pope, 48
Shepard, Charles R., 137
Sikh immigrants, 68, 71, 647-649, 664
Simmons, William J., 478
Sinclair, Upton, 230, 507-508
Singer, Isaac Bashevis, 230
Sirhan, Sirhan Bishara, 47
Sixth Amendment, 294
Slaughterhouse cases, 205
Slave trade, 4, 168-171, 609; abolition of, 108
Slavery, 108, 205, 317, 322; and African immigration, 3-11; in Caribbean, 11; and citizenship, 166; and Constitution, U.S., 201; and “coolie” labor, 175; and German immigrants, 286; and indentured servitude, 388-389, 695; and Irish immigrants, 237, 400; in Jamaica, 416; and Know-Nothing Party, 465; and Native Americans, 317; and Santería, 629; and U.S. Census,

122
Slavic immigrants, 244, 344, 351, 595; and “mongrelization,” 555; Poles, 594-597
Slocum, Tokutaro “Tokie” Nishimura, 426
Smathers, George A., 178
Smith, Alfred E., 398-399, 663
Smith, Betty, 232
Smith, H. T., 183
Smith, John, 420-422, 507
Smith, Joseph, 221
Smith, Wayne, 525-526
Smuggling; of African slaves, 6, 168-171; and Border Patrol, 100-101;  of Chinese immigrants, 138-140; drugs, 294; and Immigration and Naturalization Service, 367; of laborers, 461, 659
Smythe, Thomas, 422
Social Gospel movement, 644
Soldier Brides Act of 1947, 687
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr, 230
Somers, George, 422
Sousa, Mathias de, 636
South Carolina, 18; Jewish settlers,

50
South Dakota, 149, 285, 508
Southeast Asian immigrants, 649-653; Hmongs, 324-327
Soviet Jewish immigrants, 653-655
Sowell, Thomas, 552
Spain; explorations of, 483; Gypsies, 295; Jews, 636-637; and slave trade, 483
Spanish-American War, 178, 485
Sri Lanka, 194
Stalin, Joseph, 604
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 286
Starr, Ellen Gates, 332-334
State Criminal Alien Assistance Program, 336
Statue of Liberty, 225, 320, 363; Lazarus’s poem, 225
Steamships, 116, 240, 282
Steele, Shelby, 552
Steinbeck, John, 508-509
Stereotypes; African American, 691; Arab, 35, 38-42, 454; Asian American, 52, 59, 60-63, 553; Chinese, 57, 137, 159, 174-176, 404; Cuban, 527; German, 545; Gypsy, 296; Irish, 282, 399, 403-405, 545; Israeli, 407; Italian, 226, 409, 414; Japanese, 57, 61; Jewish, 446; Latino, 497; in literature, 226; mail-order brides, 523-524; Mexican, 127, 575; “model minorities,” 324, 549, 553; Muslim, 556; Polish, 597; West Indian, 691
Stevens, John Paul, 297
Strong, Josiah, 242
Stuyvesant, Peter, 443, 450-452, 636
Suar, Xavier, 183
Sugarman v. Dowell, 565
Sugi, Suma, 425
Sui Sin Far (Edith Maud Eaton), 57
Sun Yat-sen, 141
Superordination, 391-392, 542
Surial, H. G., 48
Sutter, John Augustus, 115
Sweatt v. Painter, 206
Taft, William Howard, 19, 341, 344-345
Taiwan, 163, 355; and China, 22, 656
Taiwanese immigrants, 146, 655-657; and education, 52, 655
Talese, Gay, 233
Tammany Hall, 519
Tan, Amy, 59, 509
Taney, Roger B., 592
Tangrenbu (Chinatown), 131
Taylor, Edward, 507
Television; and emergency planning, 330
Tennessee; and Ku Klux Klan, 477, 480; machine politics, 519; and Operation Wetback, 574
Terrorism; and Homeland Security Department, 327-332; September 11, 39, 173, 327, 335, 637-643
Texas; alien land laws, 21; Anglo-American settlement, 504; Asian Americans, 64; Asian Indian immigrants, 69; and Border Patrol, 97; German immigrants, 287; Gypsy immigrants, 296; illegal aliens, 335; Korean immigrants, 467; and Ku Klux Klan, 479; Latinos, 505, 590-593, 610; Mexican immigrants, 92, 101; and Mexican War, 484; Operation Wetback, 572-576; segregation in, 206, 504; Vietnamese immigrants, 672
Texas, University of, 206
Thai Americans; and education, 52
Thai immigrants, 649-650, 657-659,

697
Thailand, 23; Amerasians, 24; Hmongs, 324; war brides, 681, 685
Thirteenth Amendment, 166, 201, 205, 699
Thomas, Clarence, 207, 297
Thomas, Franklin, 691
Thoreau, Henry David, 231
Tibetan immigrants, 659-661
Tien, Chang-lin, 600
Tijerina, Reies López, 128
Tingley, George B., 154
Transportation, Department of, 173
Transportation Security Administration, 329
Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire, 271, 661-663, 697
Trinidad and Tobago, 9, 13, 67, 363, 630
Trop v. Dulles, 568
Truax v. Raich, 564
Truman, Harry S., 359-361, 615, 687; and European refugees, 322, 614
Tuchman, Gloria Matta, 602
Twain, Mark, 510
Tweed, “Boss” William Marcy, 519
Twice migrants, 664
Tydings-McDuffie Act of 1934, 728
Tz’u-hsi (Cixi), 111
UFW. See United Farm Workers of America
UFWOC. See United Farm Workers Organizing Committee
Ukrainian immigrants, 624
Undocumented immigrants; and Border Patrol, 96
Undocumented workers, 191, 319, 547, 665-666; in Florida, 267-269; Haitians, 302; and immigration law, 383-387; and nativists, 321. See also Illegal immigration
UNHCR. See United Nations High Commission for Refugees
UNIA. See Universal Negro Improvement Association
Unionism, 29-30, 236, 344, 346, 586-587; and Asian immigrants, 19, 61, 76-78, 135, 157, 277, 349, 709; and bracero program, 573; and farmworkers, 99, 101, 251; and garment workers, 271, 697; and Polish immigrants, 594; and West Indians, 13, 417, 667; and women, 646, 661-663, 695, 697
United Farm Workers of America, 251-257
United Farm Workers Organizing Committee, 251
United Farm Workers Union, 77
United Nations High Commission for Refugees, 311-312, 616, 697
United States Code, 172, 381
United States ex rel. Knauff v. Shaughnessy, 563
United States v. Brignoni-Ponce, 567
United States v. Jung Ah Lung, 144-146
United States v. Winans, 202
United States v. Wong Kim Ark, 699-702
Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 311
Universal Negro Improvement Association, 667-670
Unz, Ron, 532, 601
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, 366
U.S. English, 216
USA Patriot Act. See Patriot Act of 2001
USCIS. See Citizenship and Immigration Services, U.S.
Utah, 21, 131
Valachi, Joseph, 413
Vang Pao, 324
Vanzetti, Bartolomeo, 413, 626-629
Verrazano, Giovanni da, 410
Vespucci, Amerigo, 409
Vietnam; and Amerasian children, 23-24; communism in, 23; Hmongs, 324; war brides, 681, 685
Vietnam War; and Amerasian children, 23; and Chicano movement, 129; Hmongs, 324, 650; and Laos, 324; in literature, 59, 233; and Montagnards, 671; protest movements, 430; and war brides, 681-682, 685
Vietnamese immigrants, 62, 64, 620, 649-650, 670-676; demographics, 192; and education, 675; and U.S. Census, 123
Vikings, 630
Virginia; Jewish immigrants, 636; Korean immigrants, 467; Native American peoples, 316; settlement of, 4, 316-317, 410, 419-423, 609; slavery in, 4; Vietnamese immigrants, 672
Virginia and Kentucky Resolves, 17-18
Virginia Charter of 1606, 165
Visas, 208, 352, 357, 374, 676-681; categories, 378-379; fees, 99-101; and lottery, 547; and quotas, 191, 377; reentry, 143; and refugees, 615; violations of, 193, 294; and war brides, 683, 686
Visel, Charles P., 536
Voluntary Agencies Responsible for Refugees, 620
Voting Rights Act of 1965, 401
Voting Rights Act of 1975, 501
Walcott, Derek, 691
Wales, J. A., 135
Wallach, John, 457
Walter, Francis, 359
War brides, 681-688
War Brides Act of 1945, 355, 435, 614, 683, 685-688, 697
War Measures Act of 1942 (Canada), 435
War Relocation Authority, 426
Washington, Booker T., 668
Washington, D.C.; Chinatown, 131; and Ku Klux Klan, 479; Maronite immigrants, 48; police brutality in, 183; terrorist attack on, 327, 637-643
Washington, George, 505, 570
Washington State; alien land laws, 21; Chinatowns, 131; Chinese immigrants, 136; Gypsy immigrants, 296; Hmong immigrants, 324; Japanese immigrants, 425; Korean immigrants, 467; Vietnamese immigrants, 672
West, Thomas, 422
West Indian immigrants, 551, 553, 689-693; and education, 689; Jamaicans, 415-419; stereotypes, 691
“Wetbacks,” 572-576, 665-666
Wheatley, Phillis, 7, 507
Whig Party, 29, 237, 283
White, Byron R., 372
White, John, 507
White ethnics, 693-694
Whom Shall We Welcome?, 361
Williams, Walter E., 552
WILPF. See Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom
Wilson, Pete, 598, 601
Wilson, Woodrow, 20, 341, 345-346, 350, 727
Wingfield, Edward Maria, 420
Wisconsin; German immigrants, 287; Hmong immigrants, 324; refugee detention camps, 526
Wobblies. See Industrial Workers of the World
Women immigrants, 694-699; Arabs, 36, 44, 46; Asian, 59, 63-67, 579-583; and Cable Act, 113-115; and California gold rush, 117; Chinese, 355; Filipino, 260, 262; and garment industry, 213, 270-272, 657-659, 661-663, 697; Hmong, 326; and indentured servitude, 387-390; Irish, 282, 398; Israeli, 408; Japanese, 435, 441; Korean, 475; mail-order brides, 521-524; Middle Eastern, 538; Muslim, 556; and Page law, 579-583; picture brides, 589-590; Polish, 595; and settlement houses, 643-647; Southeast Asian, 650; Vietnamese, 671; war brides, 681-688
Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, 646
Wong, Kent, 77
Wong Kim Ark, 699-702
Wong Kim Ark case, 699-702
Wong Quan v. United States, 144-146
World Trade Center, 639
World War I; and Arab immigrants, 42; Jewish refugees, 26; and Ku Klux Klan, 51; and nativism, 91; and war brides, 682
World War II; and agricultural labor, 103-107; and bracero program, 103-107; and Japan, 437; Japanese American internment, 62, 321, 424, 426-432, 434, 437-438, 710; and Japanese immigrants, 62; and Japanese Peruvians, 437-438; in literature, 57; and Little Tokyos, 517; and Mexican Americans, 129; occupation of Japan, 22; and war brides, 681-688
WRA. See War Relocation Authority
Wright, Luke E., 278-280
Wright, Richard, 510
Wyoming, 61, 131, 136
Xenophobia, 226, 320, 702-707; and culutral pluralism, 188; and English-only movement, 218; and Federalists, 16; and nativists, 81; and Sacco and Vanzetti trial,

413
Yamauchi, Wakako, 59
Yarborough, Ralph Webster, 92-93
Yasui v. United States, 430
“Yellow peril,” 61, 432, 438-443, 576; campaign, 707-711
Yerby, Frank, 510
Yezierska, Anzia, 229
Yick Wo v. Hopkins, 162, 564
Yiddish, 50, 285, 444, 637
Yon Yonson (play), 633
Yoshikawa, Iwao, 577
Young, Brigham, 221
Young Women’s Christian Association, 695
Zadvydas, Kestutis, 711-712
Zadvydas v. Davis, 711-712
Zangwill, Israel, 226, 530



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