A nation of nations : a great American immigration story

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The work A nation of nations : a great American immigration story represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Waubonsee Community College. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

A nation of nations : a great American immigration story

Title remainder

a great American immigration story

Statement of responsibility

Tom Gjelten

Creator

• Gjelten, Tom

Subject

• County Fairfax
• Demographie
• Developing countries -- Emigration and immigration
• Einwanderung
• Ethnische Beziehungen
• Fairfax County (Va.) -- Biography
• Fairfax County (Va.) -- Emigration and immigration
• Fairfax County (Va.) -- Ethnic relations
• HISTORY -- United States -- 20th Century
• HISTORY -- United States -- General
• Immigrants -- Virginia | Fairfax County -- Biography
• Immigrants -- Virginia | Fairfax County -- Social conditions
• Biographies
• Minorities -- Virginia | Fairfax County -- Social conditions
• Multikulturelle Gesellschaft
• SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Emigration & Immigration
• Social change -- Virginia | Fairfax County
• Sozialer Wandel
• USA
• United States
• United States -- Emigration and immigration
• United States.
• Längsschnittuntersuchung

Genre

• Biography
• Biographies

Language

eng

Summary

"The dramatic and compelling story of the transformation of America during the last fifty years, told through a handful of families in one suburban county in Virginia that has been utterly changed by recent immigration. In the fifty years since the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act, the foreign-born population of the United States has tripled. Significantly, these immigrants are not coming from Europe, as was the case before 1965, but from all corners of the globe. Today non-European immigration is ninety percent of the total immigration to the US. Americans today are vastly more diverse than ever. They look different, speak different languages, practice different religions, eat different foods, and enjoy different cultures. In 1950, Fairfax County, Virginia, was ninety percent white, ten percent African-American, with a little more than one hundred families who were 'other.' Currently the African-American percentage of the population is about the same, but the Anglo white population is less than fifty percent, and there are families of Asian, African, Middle Eastern, and Latin American origin living all over the county. A Nation of Nations follows the lives of a few immigrants to Fairfax County over recent decades as they gradually 'Americanize.' Hailing from Korea, Bolivia, and Libya, these families have stories that illustrate common immigrant themes: friction between minorities, economic competition and entrepreneurship, and racial and cultural stereotyping. It's been half a century since the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act changed the landscape of America, and no book has assessed the impact or importance of this law as this one does, with its brilliant combination of personal stories and larger demographic and political issues."--Publisher information

Biography type

contains biographical information

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

305.8009755/291

Illustrations

• illustrations
• plates

Index

index present

LC call number

F232.F2

LC item number

G57 2015

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography