http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/24/us/mexican-immigration-to-united-states-slows.html?hp

Children and Race

Here are some posts on children and race/ethnicity by the authors of Nurture Shock. You might find them surprising and interesting:

• See Baby Discriminate: Kids as young as 6 months judge others based on skin color. What's a parent to do?
• Is Discussing Race With a 3-Year-Old Too Young?
• By Third Grade, Black Students Who Self Segregate Are More Popular
• Tell Them, 'You're Acting Obama'

And one from CNN

http://www.cnn.com/2011/11/25/opinion/wilkinson-jobs-immigration/index.html?hpt=hp_t3

NY Times on Immigrants & Ethnicity

Articles in the NY times today:

• http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/25/nyregion/mexicans-in-new-york-city-lag-in-education.html?hpw
• http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/26/bachmann-renews-attack-of-gingrich-over-immigration/?scp=2&sq=immigration&st=cse
• http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/26/business/jeno-paulucci-a-pioneer-of-ready-made-ethnic-foods-dies-at-93.html?scp=1&sq=ethnic&st=cse
• and an on-going series: http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/us/series/race_remixed/index.html?scp=2&sq=race&st=cse

Research Project Reminder

This is a reminder the the second research project is due next Monday. The project is to mine the library's ProQuest databases for information about an immigrant or immigrant family and write a report on what you find and how it compares to what you have learned from the textbook. The report should be roughly 2,000 words and should include full citations of the records you use from the databases (census, passenger list, death index, etc.). It would be best to print out copies of the documents and include them with your report. Remember that the library's subscription to the databases ends on Wednesday.

Immigration in the Age of Globalization, part 1

1870 Census Taker

For Monday's class, please read Chapter 17 through page 422 and be prepared to answer the following questions:

• What has changed and what has stayed the same in American immigration since 1986?
• In the 2000 census, what percentage of the population was foreign born? How does that compare to the historical numbers? (Hint: check the tables in this chapter and in chapter 6.)
• According to the 2000 census, the largest numbers of immigrants came from what regions of the world? Where did most settle? What were their education achievements and income?
• Why is the data so misleading when the census data on immigrants is lumped together?
• What does Daniels say the responsible historian must try to do?
• Who are "nonimmigrant" immigrants?
• Who do experts think comprise the major portion of the illegal immigrants?
• What is the longstanding discrimination against Mexican as opposed to Canadian border crossers?
• Why are the government's estimates of the number of illegal immigrants so unreliable?
• If we accept the government's numbers, what, in Daniel's opinion, are the vast majority of the 1.8% of the U.S. population that is undocumented?

Check out this website: http://immigration-online.org/

Chapter 16

While reading Chapter 16, please highlight at least one sentence, phrase or statement per page. Be sure to bring your book to class on Monday as participation points will, in part, be based on completion of this task. You should be prepared to discuss all highlighted passages.