| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.1

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Book Review

In a New Land: A Comparative View of Immigration. By Nancy Foner. (New York: New York University Press, 2005. viii, 325 pp. Cloth, $65.00, ISBN 0-8147-2745-X. Paper, $22.00, ISBN 0-8147-2746-8.)
The history of settlement of America has been one of successive waves of immigrants coming from different places at different times. Nancy Foner's most recent book, In a New Land, focuses on immigration to New York and London during two periods: from 1880 to 1920 and from 1970 to the present. She draws on her own research done for the most part in the 1970s and 1980s as well as secondary sources. The approach is comparative, across time and over space, focusing on questions of race/ethnicity, class, gender, and transnational connections.	1
Initially, Foner examines the question of race: what it meant for Italians and Jews when they came over one hundred years ago and what it means for more recent immigrants. Today in America race is a color word, but it was not that way at the turn of the twentieth century when Italians and Jews were seen as having ambiguous racial status. Foner assesses how time of immigration, source areas of newcomers, patterns of intermarriage, jobs, social class, and the size of the African American population all have had some role in determining how race is defined.	. . .

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