Immigrant Voices

Thomas Dublin is a Bartle Distinguished Professor of history at the State University of New York at Binghamton and codirector of the Center for the Historical Study of Women and Gender. He is coeditor of the websites Women and Social Movements in the United States and Women and Social Movements, International.

"Clearly aimed at the undergraduate student and the general reader, Immigrant Voices provides immigrant accounts of their experiences. . . . The selections, which vary in form from letters, to memoirs, to diary entries, to oral histories, illustrate both the push factors of native lands as well as the pull factors of the United States. A reader vicariously feels the emotional cost of leaving home, the trials of steerage passage, the draw of American jobs and freedom, the sting of nativism, the clash between vision and reality, in short, the immigrant experience."--Labor Studies Journal     "This volume will continue to provide students of American immigration with a rich repository of testimonies that reflect both of the commonalities among immigrant experiences, and the particularities produced by differences of race, class, gender, legal status, and historical context."--Journal of American Ethnic History

• CoverTitle PageCopyrightContentsAcknowledgmentsEditorial MethodIntroduction1. The John Harrower Diary, 1773–17762. Irish Immigrant Letters, 1847–18483. The William and Sophie Frank Seyffardt Letters, 1851–18634. Rosa Cassettari: From Northern Italy to Chicago, 1884–19265. Rose Gollup: From Russia to the Lower East Side in the 1890s6. The Childhood of Mary Paik, 1905–19177. Kazuko Itoi: A Nisei Daughter's Story, 1925–19428. The Nguyen Family: From Vietnam to Chicago, 1975–19869. Helene Cooper: A Liberian Immigrant's Story, 198010. The California-Mexico Letters of Angela Gomez, 1988–1990Selected Bibliography of First-Person Immigrant AccountsIndex