Melting-Pot Modernism

by Sarah Wilson and Sarah Wilson

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Between 1891 and 1920 more than 18 million immigrants entered the United States. While many Americans responded to this influx by proposing immigration restriction or large-scale "Americanization" campaigns, a few others, figures such as Jane Addams and John Dewey, adopted the image of the melting pot to oppose such measures. These Progressives imagined assimilation as a multidirectional process, in which both native-born and immigrants contributed...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0801448166

ISBN13:9780801448164

Release Date:August 2010

Publisher:Cornell University Press

Length:264 Pages

Weight:1.18 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.4" x 9.2"

Age Range:18 years and up

Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher

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History Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Social Science Social Sciences

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