David M Reimers
Biographic Data
| ID | 274420 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David M Reimers |
| GIVEN NAMES | David M |
| FAMILY NAME | Reimers |
| SIGNATURE | REIMERS D M |
| AFFILIATIONS | New York University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 57 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 41 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 57 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1962 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
More Liberal Than We Thought: A Note on Immediate Family Member Immigrants of U.S. Citizens
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A Nation of Immigrants
Drawing on considerable research and many years of working with and leading immigration policy agencies, Susan F. Martin has written an informative and engaging book. The reader should be aware that this is a book primarily about the formation of immigration policy along the lines of Aristide R. Zolberg’s A Nation by Design: Immigration in the Fashioning of America (2006) and does not offer extensive information on immigrants themselves. Describi…
Graham Russel Gao Hodges, "Taxi! A Social History of the New York City Cabdriver" (Baltimore: (The John Hopkins University Press, 2007)
Left History features articles from a variety of theoretical approaches; these include feminist, marxist, and postmodernist deliberations on topics such as race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, culture, the state, labour, the environment, theory, and method
The Liberty of Strangers: Making the American Nation
Journal Article The Liberty of Strangers: Making the American Nation Get access The Liberty of Strangers: Making the American Nation. By King Desmond. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. x, 229 pp. $29.95, isbn0-19-514638-7.) David M. Reimers David M. Reimers Emeritus New York UniversityNew York, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 92, Issue 4, March 2006, Pag…
John Higham and Immigration History
Research Article| October 01 2004 John Higham and Immigration History Leonard Dinnerstein; Leonard Dinnerstein Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google David M. Reimers David M. Reimers Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2004) 24 (1): 3–25. https://doi.org/10.2307/27501529 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation …
New Immigrants in New York
Book Review| October 01 2002 New Immigrants in New York New Immigrants in New York, Nancy Foner. David M. Reimers David M. Reimers Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2002) 22 (1): 76–78. https://doi.org/10.2307/27501250 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation David M. Reimers; New Immigrants in New York. Journal of American Ethnic…
Unwelcome Strangers: American Identity and the Turn against Immigration
African American Views of the Japanese: Solidarity or Sedition?
Unwelcome Strangers: American Identity and the Turn against Immigration
All the Nations under Heaven: An Ethnic and Racial History of New York City.
In All the Nations Under Heaven, Frederick Binder and David Reimers trace the shifting tides of New York's ethnic past, from its beginnings as a Dutch trading outpost to the present age where Third World immigration has given the population a truly global character. All the Nations Under Heaven explores the processes of cultural adaptation to life in New York, giving a lively account of immigrants new and old, and of the streets and neighborhoods…
Hooded Knights on the Niagara: The Ku Klux Klan in Buffalo, New York
The Temple Bombing
United States
Flore Zèphir, Haitian Immigrants in Black America: A Sociological and Sociolinguistic Portrait
The Coming of the Arabic-Speaking People to the United States
This study concerns the causes conditions and nature of the long-term interaction between Arabic-speaking peoples and North America. The focus is both on the impact of the American presence in Syria in the late nineteenth century and on migration from Syria and Lebanon to the New World. The primary authors approach is to place the contact points settlement patterns and problems of these immigrants and sojourners in a sociohistorical context. By s…
Gateway to the Promised Land: Ethnic Cultures in New York's Lower East Side
All the Nations under Heaven: An Ethnic and Racial History of New York City
All the Nations under Heaven: An Ethnic and Racial History of New York City
Journal Article All the Nations under Heaven: An Ethnic and Racial History of New York City. By Frederick M. Binder and David M. Reimers. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1995. xiv, 353 pp. $27.50, ISBN 0-231-07878-1.) Get access John Buenker John Buenker University of Wisconsin-Parkside, Kenosha, Wisconsin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 4, March 1996, Pa…
Immigrant Life in New York City, 1825-1863
This is a historical study of acculturation in New York City. It documents the Americanisation of foreign enclaves within the city, showing the effects produced by church, school, foreign-language press and libraries - the methods by which the Democratic Party enlisted the immigrant vote
Postwar Immigrant America: A Social History
Journal Article Postwar Immigrant America: A Social History. By Reed Ueda. (Boston: Bedford, 1994. x, 182 pp. Cloth, $35.00, ISBN 0-312-10279-8. Paper, $6.50, ISBN 0-312-07526-X.) Get access David M. Reimers David M. Reimers New York University, New York, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 1, June 1995, Pages 342–343, https://doi.org/10.2307/2082129 Publi…
Still the Golden Door: The Third World Comes to America
A study of immigration policies in the United States from before World War II through the Immigration Act of 1990
The New Chosen People: Immigrants in the United States
Journal Article The New Chosen People: Immigrants in the United States. By Guillermina Jasso and Mark R. Rosenzweig. (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1990. xxxvi + 460 pp. $49.95.) Get access David M. Reimers David M. Reimers New York University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 78, Issue 3, December 1991, Pages 1149–1150, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078945 Published: 01 D…
Natives and Strangers: Blacks, Indians, and Immigrants in America
Brought completely up to date to reflect recent scholarship and the new wave of immigration to the United States in the last decade, the second edition of this immensely popular book highlights a much-neglected dimension of the American past by giving a unique focus to the history of the nation's minority groups. Within the context of the country's economic development, the authors show how blacks, Indians, and immigrant minorities helped transfo…
Historiography of American Immigration
Journal Article Historiography of American Immigration Get access David M. Reimers David M. Reimers David M. Reimers is professor of history at New York University. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar OAH Magazine of History, Volume 4, Issue 4, Spring 1990, Pages 10–13, https://doi.org/10.1093/maghis/4.4.10 Published: 01 March 1990
Forgotten Doors: The Other Ports of Entry to the United States
Passage from India: Asian Indian Immigrants in North America
that Melanesian Pidgin is exceptional in its degree of syntactical and morphological complexity. The richest chapters, understandably, are those dealing with Solomons Pidgin, particularly as spoken in central Malaita, where Keesing has carried out extensive ethnographic research for several decades. A significant result is the demonstration that the grammaticalization of bambae (bye and bye) to mark future and/or irrealist verbs can be dated prio…
Still the Golden Door: The Third World Comes to America
A study of immigration policies in the United States from before World War II through the Immigration Act of 1990
Post-World War II Immigration to the United States: America's Latest Newcomers
During the 1920s, Congress drastically curtailed immigration from Europe and barred Asians. The Johnson- Reed Act of 1924 completed the restictions and established the national origins system. After World War II, Congress reaffirmed that system with the enactment of the McCarran- Walter Act in 1952. But Congress also began to liberalize im migration policy, largely on a piecemeal basis. In 1965, Con gress repealed the national origins quotas and …
Poverty, Ethnicity and the American City
The Negro in Virginia Politics, 1902-1965
Journal Article The Negro in Virginia Politics, 1902–1965. By Andrew Buni. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1967. ix + 296 pp. Tables, notes, appendixes, bibliography, and index. $6.00.) Get access David M. Reimers David M. Reimers New York University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 54, Issue 4, March 1968, Pages 917–918, https://doi.org/10.2307/1918126 Pu…
More Liberal Than We Thought: A Note on Immediate Family Member Immigrants of U.S. Citizens
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John Higham and Immigration History
Research Article| October 01 2004 John Higham and Immigration History Leonard Dinnerstein; Leonard Dinnerstein Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google David M. Reimers David M. Reimers Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2004) 24 (1): 3–25. https://doi.org/10.2307/27501529 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation …
New Immigrants in New York
Book Review| October 01 2002 New Immigrants in New York New Immigrants in New York, Nancy Foner. David M. Reimers David M. Reimers Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2002) 22 (1): 76–78. https://doi.org/10.2307/27501250 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation David M. Reimers; New Immigrants in New York. Journal of American Ethnic…
Natives and Strangers: Ethnic Groups and the Building of America
Journal Article Natives and Strangers: Ethnic Groups and the Building of America. By Leonard Dinnerstein, Roger L. Nichols, and David M. Reimers. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1979. xiv + 333 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, selected bibliography, and index. Cloth, $13.95; paper, $4.00.) Get access Roger Daniels Roger Daniels University of Cincinnati Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of America…
The Race Problem and Presbyterian Union
After nearly a century of division the Presbyterian Church in the United States (the southern church) and the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America (the northern church) attempted to unite in 1954. The southern Presbyterians voted against the merger and kept America's two largest Presbyterian bodies divided. Although little was said concerning race relations during the debates on unification, there is reason to believe that the race…
The Race Problem and Presbyterian Union
After nearly a century of division the Presbyterian Church in the United States (the southern church) and the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America (the northern church) attempted to unite in 1954. The southern Presbyterians voted against the merger and kept America's two largest Presbyterian bodies divided. Although little was said concerning race relations during the debates on unification, there is reason to believe that the race…
White Protestantism and the Negro
The Churches and the Negro
White Protestantism and the Negro
White Protestantism and the Negro
The Negro in Virginia Politics, 1902-1965
Journal Article The Negro in Virginia Politics, 1902–1965. By Andrew Buni. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1967. ix + 296 pp. Tables, notes, appendixes, bibliography, and index. $6.00.) Get access David M. Reimers David M. Reimers New York University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 54, Issue 4, March 1968, Pages 917–918, https://doi.org/10.2307/1918126 Pu…
The Negro in Maryland Politics, 1870-1912
Journal Article The Negro in Maryland Politics, 1870–1912. By Margaret Law Callcott. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1969. xv + 199 pp. Maps, charts, tables, notes, appendixes, bibliographical note, and index. $7.95.) Get access David M. Reimers David M. Reimers New York University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 56, Issue 3, December 1969, Pages 686–687, https://doi.or…
The Collapse of Orthodoxy: The Intellectual Ordeal of George Frederick Holmes
Ethnic Americans: A History of Immigration and Assimilation
Ethnic Americans: A History of Immigration and Assimilation
Books reviewed
Serfs, Peasants, and Socialists. By William Derman. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1973. x, 282 pp. $15.00. The Glassworkers of Carmaux: French Craftsmen and Political Action in a Nineteenth‐Century City. By Joan Wallach Scott. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1974. xiv, 239 pp. $10.00 The Anzin Company, 1800–1833: Big Business in the Early Stages of the French Industrial Revolution. By Reed G. Geiger. Philadelphia, Universi…
Ethnic Americans: A History of Immigration and Assimilation
Journal Article Ethnic Americans: A History of Immigration and Assimilation. By Leonard Dinnerstein and David M. Reimers. (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1975. XV + 184 pp. Tables, appendixes, bibliographical essay, and index. Paper, $4.75.) Get access A. William Hoglund A. William Hoglund University of Connecticut Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 63, Issue 1, June 1976, Pages 174…
The Ethnic Frontier: Essays in the History of Group Survival in Chicago and the Midwest
Books reviewed
Unemployment In History: Economic Thought and Public Policy. By John A. Garraty, New York: Harper & Row, 1978. xii, 273 pp. $15.00. We Were There: The Story of Working Women In America. By Barbara Mayer Wertheimer. New York: Pantheon Books, 1977. xx, 427 pp. $15.95. Labor and The American Revolution. By Philip S. Foner. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1976. xi, 256 pp. $14.95. The Factory Girls: A Collection of Writings on Life and Struggles in th…
A History of the Churches in the United States and Canada
The religious histories of both the USA and Canada contain many dramatic themes, such as the Great Awakenings, the triumph of religious freedom, the clashes between Catholics and Protestants, the tensions of racial and ethnic differences, the forming of church unions, and the contentions between Christians who seek to express their faith in the thought patterns of their time and those who cling to traditional formulations. The way the churches fa…
Major Black Religious Leaders: 1755-1940
Journal Article Major Black Religious Leaders: 1755–1940. By Henry J. Young. (Nashville: Abingdon, 1977. 173 pp. Notes. Paper, $5.95.) Get access David M. Reimers David M. Reimers New York University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 65, Issue 1, June 1978, Pages 148–149, https://doi.org/10.2307/1888179 Published: 01 June 1978
On the History of Youth
Natives and Strangers: Ethnic Groups and the Building of America
Natives and Strangers: Ethnic Groups and the Building of America
Journal Article Natives and Strangers: Ethnic Groups and the Building of America. By Leonard Dinnerstein, Roger L. Nichols, and David M. Reimers. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1979. xiv + 333 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, selected bibliography, and index. Cloth, $13.95; paper, $4.00.) Get access Roger Daniels Roger Daniels University of Cincinnati Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of America…
Wrestlin' Jacob: A Portrait of Religion in the Old South
Books reviewed
Workers Control in America: Studies in the History of Work, Technology, and Labor Struggles. By David Montgomery. Cambridge, UK; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1979. viii, 189 pp. $14.95. Essays in Southern Labor History: Selected Papers, Southern Labor History Conference, 1976. Edited by Gary M. Fink and Merl E. Reed, Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1977. xv 275 pp. $19.95. Industrial Relations in the Coal Industry. By Brian J. McCormick. …
Post-World War II Immigration to the United States: America's Latest Newcomers
During the 1920s, Congress drastically curtailed immigration from Europe and barred Asians. The Johnson- Reed Act of 1924 completed the restictions and established the national origins system. After World War II, Congress reaffirmed that system with the enactment of the McCarran- Walter Act in 1952. But Congress also began to liberalize im migration policy, largely on a piecemeal basis. In 1965, Con gress repealed the national origins quotas and …
Today's Immigrants, Their Stories
Ambivalent Friends: Afro-Americans View the Immigrant
Journal Article Ambivalent Friends: Afro-Americans View the Immigrant. By Arnold Shankman. (Westport: Greenwood, 1982. xiv + 198 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $25.00.) Get access David M. Reimers David M. Reimers New York University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 69, Issue 4, March 1983, Pages 992–993, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901244 Published: 01 March 19…
Still the Golden Door: The Third World Comes to America
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