Research Catalog

Title

Multicultural America : an encyclopedia of the newest Americans / Ronald H. Bayor, editor.

Publication

Santa Barbara, Calif. : Greenwood, ©2011.

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Details

Additional Authors

Bayor, Ronald H., 1944-

Description

4 volumes (xxviii, 2334 pages) : illustrations, maps; 26 cm

Summary

Profiles fifty of the most numerous immigrant groups in the United States, providing information on the history of their immigration to the U.S., how well they have adapted to life in America, and their impact on American society.

Subjects

• United States
• Minorities
• Ethnology
• Immigrants
• Multiculturalism
• Cultural pluralism
• Encyclopédies
• Encyclopedias
• encyclopedias
• United States > Race relations > Encyclopedias
• United States > Ethnic relations > Encyclopedias
• Minorities > United States > Encyclopedias
• Ethnology > United States > Encyclopedias
• Immigrants > United States > Encyclopedias
• Multiculturalism > United States > Encyclopedias
• Race relations
• Ethnic relations
• Cultural pluralism > United States > Encyclopedias

Genre/Form

• encyclopedias.
• Encyclopedias.
• Encyclopédies.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Preface (starting p. ix) -- Introduction (starting p. xiii) -- Chronology (starting p. xxvii) -- Afghan Immigrants (starting p. 1) / Ceri Oeppen -- Argentinian Immigrants (starting p. 39) / Judith Ann Warner -- Bahamian Immigrants (starting p. 79) / Kathryn Beard -- Bangladeshi Immigrants (starting p. 109) / Ahrar Ahmad -- Brazilian Immigrants (starting p. 149) / Franklin Goza -- Cambodian Immigrants (starting p. 205) / Justin Corfield -- Chilean Immigrants (starting p. 237) / Cristian Dona-Reveco -- Chinese Immigrants (starting p. 277) / Jonathan H. X. Lee -- Colombian Immigrants (starting p. 353) / Enrique S. Pumar -- Costa Rican Immigrants (starting p. 381) / Thea S. Alvarado -- Cuban Immigrants (starting p. 413) / Guillermo J. Grenier -- Dominican Immigrants (starting p. 471) / Anthony Stevens-Acevedo -- Ecuadorian Immigrants (starting p. 533) / Kenneth Kincaid -- Egyptian Immigrants (starting p. 577) / Caroline Nagel -- Eritrean Immigrants (starting p. 617) / Tricia Redeker Hepner -- Ethiopian Immigrants (starting p. 657) / Solomon Addis Getahun -- Filipino Immigrants (starting p. 701) / Maria Paz Gutierrez Esguerra -- Ghanaian Immigrants (starting p. 753) / Baffour K. Takyi -- Guatemalan Immigrants (starting p. 799) / Sandra Lazo de la Vega -- Guyanese (Indo-Guyanese) Immigrants (starting p. 845) / Natassaja Chowthi -- Haitian Immigrants (starting p. 887) / Bertin M. Louis Jr. -- Honduran Immigrants (starting p. 933) / Suyapa G. Portillo Villeda -- Indian (Asian Indian) Immigrants (starting p. 969) / Karen Isaksen Leonard -- Indonesian Immigrants (starting p. 1027) / Jennifer Cho -- Iranian Immigrants (starting p. 1069) / Maboud Ansari -- Iraqi Immigrants (starting p. 1111) / Mary C. Sengstock -- Israeli Jewish Immigrants (starting p. 1149) / Steven J. Gold -- Jamaican Immigrants (starting p. 1189) / Alwyn D. Gilkes -- Japanese Immigrants (starting p. 1247) / Eiichiro Azuma -- Kenyan Immigrants (starting p. 1287) / Scott G. Feinstein -- Korean Immigrants (starting p. 1329) / Won Moo Hurh -- Laotian Immigrants (starting p. 1397) / Helen K. Kim -- Lebanese Immigrants (starting p. 1427) / Stephen J. Sills -- Liberian Immigrants (starting p. 1459) / Hana Brown -- Mexican Immigrants (starting p. 1493) / Alma M. Garcia -- Nicaraguan Immigrants (starting p. 1557) / Lisa Konczal -- Nigerian Immigrants (starting p. 1595) / Mojubaolu Olufunke Okome -- Pakistani Immigrants (starting p. 1655) / Kathleen M. Moore -- Palestinian and Jordanian Immigrants (starting p. 1695) / Randa Bassem Serhan -- Panamanian Immigrants (starting p. 1731) / Anulkah Thomas -- Peruvian Immigrants (starting p. 1777) / Rodrigo Lovaton Davila -- Puerto Ricans (starting p. 1843) / Maria E. Perez y Gonzalez -- Salvadoran Immigrants (starting p. 1903) / Carlos B. Cordova -- Somalian Immigrants (starting p. 1965) / Franklin Goza -- Sudanese Immigrants (starting p. 2013) / Deidre Ann Tyler -- Taiwanese Immigrants (starting p. 2043) / Franklin Ng -- Thai Immigrants (starting p. 2097) / Jenjira Yahirun -- Trinidadian and Tobagonian Immigrants (starting p. 2135) / Teruyuki Tsuji -- Venezuelan Immigrants (starting p. 2191) / Sanchez-R. Magaly -- Vietnamese Immigrants (starting p. 2229) / Hien Duc Do -- Selected Bibliography (starting p. 2277) -- About the Editor and Contributors (starting p. 2279) -- Index (starting p. 2287)

ISBN

• 9780313357862
• 0313357862
• 9780313357879
• 0313357870
• 9780313357886
• 0313357889

LCCN

2011004677

OCLC

• ocn702357644
• 702357644
• SCSB-1614985

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library