Course name:

Dr. Hector Calleros

E-mail: [email protected]
Office Hours: Fridays 11:00-12:00 (Room 3.034)

The course aims to address some of the most important and intensely debated social issues in the
contemporary American polity, namely immigration, race and ethnicity. The study of these
phenomena is carried out from an interdisciplinary perspective. Attention is paid to processes of
ethno-racial and cultural differentiation and to processes of assimilation and exclusion. These
phenomena are analyzed in relation to the public policies that, in different historical periods, have
been implemented for their attention.

LECTURE: czwartek, 9:45 - 11:15

Room 1.008 | Budynek Dydaktyczny - Dobra 55

2. KAMPUS (COME). All course readings and handouts are posted in this platform.

Lesson Date Topic

1 Feb 20 Course Introduction
2 Feb 27 Framing the Topic: Peoplehood
3 Mar 06 Creating America 1607-1783. European Emigrations
4 Mar 13 Redefining the Nation 1850-1900
Short Essay Submission
5 Mar 20 Immigrants’ Clash with Indian Nations and Mexico
6 Mar 27 Early Nativism
7 April 03 [Pseudo]Scientific Racism and Immigration policy (1900-1945)
8 April 10 African American Migration from the Colonial Era to the Present
Mid Term Exam
9 April 24 A Global Perspective on Immigration
10 May 08 Immigration: Public Policy and Data
11 May 15 Multi- and Inter-culturalism
12 May 22 Mexican and Latin American Migrations to the U.S.
13 May 29 Asian-Americans
14 June 05 Conclusion: Today’s Immigrants; Tomorrow’s Nation
June 12 Final Exam

Key Texts
Donna R. Gabaccia. 2002. Immigration and American Diversity: A Social and Cultural History. UK:
Wiley-Blackwell.

Ronald H. Bayor (2004) The Columbia Documentary History of Race and Ethnicity in America. New
York: Columbia University Press.

Bond, J.R., & Smith, K.B. (2019). Analyzing American Democracy: Politics and Political Science
(3rd ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429438035

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Complementary Texts
Ronald H. Bayor. The Oxford Handbook of American Immigration and Ethnicity. New York, NY:
Oxford University Press, 2016.

David Scott FitzGerald. 2014. Culling the Masses. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University
Press. https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=771950&lang=pl&site=eds-live

Tichenor, Daniel J., and Kathryn Miller, 'Immigration Policy: Restrictive and Expansive Traditions',
in Paula Baker, and Donald T. Critchlow (eds), The Oxford Handbook of American Political History,
Oxford Handbooks (2020; online edn, Oxford Academic, 2 Apr. 2020),
https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199341788.013.27,

Lesson 1 Course Introduction

Lesson 2 Framing the Topic: Peoplehood.

How to understand social formation, continuity and change in the United States of America?

Required Reading: Ch. Introduction: on studying stories of peoplehood

Smith, Rogers M. Stories of Peoplehood : The Politics and Morals of Political Membership.
Contemporary Political Theory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003, pp.1-16.

Additional Reading: Morning, A. Ethnic Classification in Global Perspective: A Cross-National

Survey of the 2000 Census Round. Popul Res Policy Rev 27, 239–272 (2008).
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11113-007-9062-5

Lesson 3 Creating America 1607-1783. European Emigrations.

Independent of Britain and different from Europeans, how the first ‘Americans’ saw themselves in
relation to Indians and Africans?

Required Reading: Ch. 1 Creating America; Creating Americans, pp. 18-46

Ch. 2 Americans and Aliens, 1750-1835, pp. 47-72
Donna R. Gabaccia. 2002. Immigration and American Diversity: A Social and Cultural History. UK:
Wiley-Blackwell.

Lesson 4 Redefining the Nation, 1850-1900

Why is citizenship important? What is the relationship between 'citizenship' and 'freedom'?

Required Reading: Ch. 4. Redefining the Nation, 1850-1900, pp. 106-135

Donna R. Gabaccia. 2002. Immigration and American Diversity: A Social and Cultural History. UK:
Wiley-Blackwell

Additional Reading: Molefi Kete Asante, The Afrocentric Idea, 1987, in Ronald H. Bayor (2004)
The Columbia Documentary History of Race and Ethnicity in America. New York: Columbia
University Press, pp.749-752.

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Lesson 5 Immigrants’ Clash with Indian Nations and Mexico
How important were European migrations in the westward expansion of the United States?

Required Reading: Ch. 3. Emigrants and Regional Strife, 1820-1860, pp. 73-101
Donna R. Gabaccia. 2002. Immigration and American Diversity: A Social and Cultural History. UK:
Wiley-Blackwell.

Required Reading: Vine Deloria Jr., “This Country Was a Lot Better Off When the Indians Were
Running It,” March 1970, in Ronald H. Bayor (2004) The Columbia Documentary History of Race
and Ethnicity in America. New York: Columbia University Press, pp.752-760.

Additional Reading: Powhatan [Wahunsonacock] to John Smith, 1609, in Ronald H. Bayor (2004)
The Columbia Documentary History of Race and Ethnicity in America. New York: Columbia
University Press, pp.50-51.

Lesson 6 Early Nativism

On what grounds were some immigrant groups deemed ineligible for US citizenship?

Required Reading: Ch. 5. Immigrants in a Nativist America, 1890-1920, pp. 136-167

Donna R. Gabaccia. 2002. Immigration and American Diversity: A Social and Cultural History. UK:
Wiley-Blackwell.

Additional Reading: W. I. Thomas and Florian Znaniecki, The Polish Peasant in Europe and
America, 1927, in Ronald H. Bayor (2004) The Columbia Documentary History of Race and
Ethnicity in America. New York: Columbia University Press, pp.524-543.

Lesson 7 [Pseudo]Scientific Racism and Immigration policy, 1900-1945

In terms of the history of public policy, how was 'scientific racism' linked to immigration policy?

Required Reading: Ch. 6. Migrants, Immigrants and Scientific Racism, pp. 168-199.
Donna R. Gabaccia. 2002. Immigration and American Diversity: A Social and Cultural History. UK:
Wiley-Blackwell.

Additional Reading: Franz Boas, “The Question of Racial Purity,” 1924, in Ronald H. Bayor (2004)
The Columbia Documentary History of Race and Ethnicity in America. New York: Columbia
University Press, pp. 573-577.

Lesson 8. African American Migration from the Colonial Era to the Present.
How to understand the presence of people of African origin in the United States?

Required Reading: Trotter, Joe. 2016. African American Migration from the Colonial Era to the
Present. In Ronald H. Bayor (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of American Immigration and Ethnicity.
Oxford University Press.

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Lesson 9 A Global Perspective on Immigration
Regarding the United Nations’ 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, how is the international
community addressing the challenges posed by immigration?

Required Reading: United Nations. 2015. Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable
Development. Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 25 September 2015, A/RES/70/1, 21
October. www.un.org/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=A/RES/70/1&Lang=E [Accessed 23.2.2021]

Additional Reading: Michele Klein Solomon, Suzanne Sheldon, The Global Compact for Migration:
From the Sustainable Development Goals to a Comprehensive Agreement on Safe, Orderly and
Regular Migration, International Journal of Refugee Law, 30(4), 2018: 584–590
https://doi.org/10.1093/ijrl/eey065

Lesson 10 Immigration: Public Policy and Data.

In what terms is the issue of migration currently being discussed in the United States?

Required Reading: Ch. 16. Core Democratic Principles and Public Policy, pp. 608-632.
Bond, J.R., & Smith, K.B. (2019). Analyzing American Democracy: Politics and Political Science
(3rd ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429438035

Additional Reading: Sara A. Quandt, Natalie J. LaMonto, Dana C. Mora, Jennifer W. Talton, Paul
J. Laurienti, Thomas A. Arcury. (2021) COVID-19 Pandemic Among Immigrant Latinx Farmworker
and Non-farmworker Families: A Rural–Urban Comparison of Economic, Educational, Healthcare,
and Immigration Concerns. NEW SOLUTIONS: A Journal of Environmental and Occupational
Health Policy 20, 104829112199246.

Lesson 11 Multi and Inter-culturalism

To what extent is ethno-racial diversity a challenge for the United States of America?

Required Reading: Ch. 7 The Postwar USA:Nation of Immigrants or Multicultural Nation? 200-231
Donna R. Gabaccia. 2002. Immigration and American Diversity: A Social and Cultural History. UK:
Wiley-Blackwell.

Required Reading: Citrin, J., & Sears, D. (2014). The Challenge of E Pluribus Unum. In American
Identity and the Politics of Multiculturalism (Cambridge Studies in Public Opinion and Political
Psychology, pp. 1-29). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 1-29.

Additional Reading: Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., and Multiculturalism, 1992, in Ronald H. Bayor (2004)
The Columbia Documentary History of Race and Ethnicity in America. New York: Columbia
University Press, pp. 898-902.

Lesson 12 Mexican and Latin American Migrations to the U.S.

What is the place of Mexican immigrants in the past and present of the United States?

Required Reading: Alarcón, Rafael. 2011. U.S. Immigration Policy and the Mobility of Mexicans
(1882-2005). Migraciones Internacionales, 6(1): 185-218. El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, México.

Additional Reading: Obinna, Denise 2019 Transiciones e Incertidumbres: Migration from El

Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala. Latino Studies 17, 484–504 https://doi.org/10.1057/s41276-019-
00209-8

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Lesson 13 Asian-Americans
What is the history of Asian Immigrants in the U.S.?

Required Reading: Ch. Introduction, pp. 1-13 and Ch. One. The History of Asian Immigration and
Assimilation, pp.15-28.
Le, C. N. Asian American Assimilation : Ethnicity, Immigration, and Socioeconomic Attainment.
The New Americans. New York: LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC, 2007

Additional Reading: Asian American Political Alliance, 1969, in Ronald H. Bayor (2004) The
Columbia Documentary History of Race and Ethnicity in America. New York: Columbia University
Press, pp.768-775.

Lesson 14 Conclusion: Today’s Immigrants; Tomorrow’s Nation

Required Reading: Ch. 8. Today’s Immigrants; Tomorrow’s Nation, pp. 233-263
Donna R. Gabaccia. 2002. Immigration and American Diversity: A Social and Cultural History. UK:
Wiley-Blackwell.

Additional Reading: Ch. 4 A pioneering people

Smith, Rogers M. Stories of Peoplehood : The Politics and Morals of Political Membership.
Contemporary Political Theory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003, pp.175-212.

COURSE ASSESSMENT
Short Essay (20 points)
Submission date: Week 4. March 13th via KAMPUS.
Essay Question: Is the term ‘Peoplehood’ helpful to understand the United States of America?
Explain.
Write a short essay relying on the texts examined in the lecture; include specific and relevant
examples to illustrate your argument.

Required Reading: Ch. Introduction: on studying stories of peoplehood

Smith, Rogers M. Stories of Peoplehood : The Politics and Morals of Political Membership.
Contemporary Political Theory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003, pp.1-16.

Essay Guidelines:
Format: The font is Times New Roman 12; line spacing 1.5.
Note: The objective of this assignment is to encourage students to develop critical reading, thinking
and writing skills. Students are expected to use their own words rather than paraphrasing the texts.
Additional research is strongly encouraged: students can references all the sources they read in the
bibliography section, at the end of the essay. Finally, long quotations are strongly discouraged;
quotations should be short and no more than two.

2. Mid-term exam (30 points)

Date: Week 8. April 10th

3. Final exam (50 points)

June 12th

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