... responses to immigration amid the so-called “obesity epidemic.” © 2024 The Association for Ethnic Studies 2024 Mexican Americans fatness immigration assimilation white supremacy “Read the newspaper and the world is yours.” Ellen Richards, Euthenics 1 In the summer of 2013...

...Deena Varner This essay examines how left-of-center media reporters and commentators responded to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids and Mississippi’s criminalization of migrant workers in their aftermath. These responses focused largely on the moral or ethical implications...

... Thind. © 2023 by the Association for Ethnic Studies 2023 Race Caste Bhagat Singh Thind Immigration Citizenship Asian America Bhagat Singh Thind (1892–1967) is remembered for his 1923 case before the United States Supreme Court that ruled that he and all other South Asians were...

... of “Hindu” was labeled as “non-white” following the United States v. Thind decision in 1923 and instead, highlights how the “Hindu” was always made to be “non-white.” Here, the article showcases the leading discourses in written media, labor, and immigration policies surrounding the racial classification...

..., a newly arrived Japanese immigrant to the U.S., experiments with a multitude of different identities through clothes. Both narratives appropriate (cross-) dressing as a means of overcoming gender, cultural, and class borders. Shônagon and Noguchi engage in “authorial crossdressing” to inhabit a social...

...Hong Cai This paper employs assimilation theory to examine the experiences of Chinese and Jewish immigrant women at similar stages of their encounters with America. By focusing on the letters in Dear Diane: Letters from Our Daughters (1983), and Dear Diane: Questions and Answers for Asian American...

... unflattering depictions of Italian immigrants arriving in the United States. Copyright ©ESR, The National Association for Ethnic Studies, 2011 2011 Immigration Race Ethnicity Italian Civilization Africa "FOR HEART, PATRIOTISM, AND NATIONAL DIGNITY" : THE ITALIAN LANGUAGE PRESS IN NEW YORK CITY...

... Hope for ships travelling between Europe and the Far East. 1 From that time the region has experienced several periods of deepening incorporation into the global system. Copyright ©ESR, The National Association for Ethnic Studies, 2010 2010 South Africa Immigration Race Politics Comparative...

...Matthew Miller In Chang-rae Lee's A Gesture Life, the elderly, wellrespected and fastidious Franklin “Doc” Hata begins an introspective journey toward a revitalized and reimagined identity. For Lee, this journey affords the chance to address ethnicity and immigration under a unique transnational...

...Susan Miyo Asai Growing nationalist thinking and anti-immigration legislation in American politics today calls for a critical historicizing of the continuing ambiguities of U.S. citizenry and notions of what it is to be an American. The identity crisis of Nisei-second generation Japanese...

... of history and of a solution to the problem of unwanted immigrants. A group of Chinese male laundry-workers are so taken aback by this product that their pigtails stand in erect consternation. Their reaction stems both from the realization that they must return to China because their services have become...

... that the arranged marriage is an example of “the continued impact of premigration cultural beliefs and social practices” that South Asian immigrants have transported to the United States (Foner 1997, 964). She offers an interpretive synthesis by showing that “[n]ew immigrant family patterns are shaped by cultural...

... for decades and have also received academic interest. 3 Copyright ©ESR, The National Association for Ethnic Studies, 2008 2008 Immigration Finnish Migration New York Rifton Finns Ethnicity: Questions Trends and Interpretations RIFTON FINNS: AN ETHNIC ENCLAVE IN ULSTER COUNTY, NEW YORK...

...Diane Todd Bucci In The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts, Maxine Hong Kingston tells the story of her immigrant family and their efforts to rise above their working-class status in America, which optimistic Chinese regard as the Golden Mountain. The Hongs' experience is not unlike...

...Barbara W. Kim According to the 2000 census, over 12 million Asian Americans, almost 70 percent of them either immigrants who came to the U.S. after 1970 or their children, comprised an ethnically and socioeconomically diverse population that was more regionally dispersed throughout the U.S. than...

... and again against - some other thing - me - a thing I couldn't name or inhabit, for I had no words. I remember this sensation now when I want to know what it must have been like for my immigrant mother when, as an eight-year-old Slovak peasant child, she first arrived in America in 1929. Copyright ©ESR...

..., not by assuming a "purely authentic" Creole tradition that was "exactly" as it was in Louisiana, but rather it came through the increased migration of new Creole families to areas that had been established by earlier immigrants. Many following immigrant patterns of those who migrated internationally, have sent...

...Scooter Pégram Since the early 1960s, large numbers of Haitians have emigrated from their native island nation. Changes in federal immigration legislation in the 1970s in both the United States and Canada enabled immigrants of colour a facilitated entry into the two countries, and this factor...

... Review Volume 28: 1 certainly strike the reader in a more forceful manner than in his other three titles. A Portuguese American writer and scholar, Gaspar is the grandson of immigrants who came to Provincetown, Massachusetts, from the island of Pico, in the Azores. He is the author of three award-winning...

... and later generations, Japanese American women were also participating in Pan-Asian relationships and marriages. I argued that it would be impossible to maintain our old paradigms of a homogenous Japanese American community rooted in our immigration to the United States roughly a hundred years ago during...