Melting-Pot Modernism

by Sarah Wilson and Sarah Wilson

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