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Explore the complex history of immigration in America during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, examining assimilation, nativism, and pluralism within Italian, Jewish, and Polish immigrant communities and their contributions to American society.
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The Immigration Question: How should American respond to immigration in late 19th/early 20th century? US History: Spiconardi
Starter What is your single favorite thing to eat? Be specific. Don’t just say candy or Italian food. Name a specific dish.
Contributions • Italians • Culinary (pasta, pizza, etc.) • Masonry • Stonework on many of New York’s buildings & The Kensico Dam.
Contributions • Jews • Yiddish Theater • Bagels • Seamstresses & tailors in NYC’s Garment District
Contributions • Poles • Polka music • Along with Italians, Slavs, Hungarians, and Mexicans, Poles increased America’s Catholic population • Worked the coal mines of Pennsylvania
Assimilation Who do you think had the hardest and easiest time assimilating? • Assimilation the process in which a minority culture becomes part of the dominant culture • How did immigrants assimilate? • Citizenship classes • Dressed American • Changed Diet/cook ethnic food with American ingredients • Attempted to speak English • Fourth of July = Il Forte Gelato
Nativism • Nativism Belief that immigration was soiling the superior native-born American Protestant values and culture • Nativists tried to lobby for legislation to restrict immigration • Oddly, it was the descendants of old immigrants that were often among the nativists protesting the arrival of new immigrants
Pluralism • Pluralism When a smaller cultural group within a larger culturally dominant group society maintains unique cultural traits and those cultural traits are considered worth having in the dominant cultural group. • Sometimes referred to as the salad bowl theory • Each part of the salad is identifiable, but creates a new, larger whole.
