Inventing the Immigration Problem : : The Dillingham Commission and Its Legacy / / Katherine Benton-Cohen.
In 1907 the U.S. Congress created a joint commission to investigate what many Americans saw as a national crisis: an unprecedented number of immigrants flowing into the United States. Experts—women and men trained in the new field of social science—fanned out across the country to collect data on th...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2018] ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (330 p.) :; 17 halftones |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. The Professor and the Commission
- 2. The Gentlemen’s Agreement
- 3. Hebrew or Jewish Is Simply a Religion
- 4. The Vanishing American Wage Earner
- 5. Women’s Power and Knowledge
- 6. The American Type
- 7. Not a Question of Too Many Immigrants
- Epilogue
- Dillingham Commission Members and Selected Staff
- Dillingham Commission Reports
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Illustration Credits
- Index