American dreaming, global realities : rethinking U.S. immigration history / edited by Donna R. Gabaccia and Vicki L. Ruiz.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The burden of their song : immigrant encounters with the republic / Jon Gjerde -- The mercurial nature and abiding power of race : a transnational family story / Martha A. Hodes -- Arriving, settling in, and surviving : German women in the midwest / Linda Schelbitzki Pickle -- Gender ideology and Black women as community-builders in Ontario, Canada, 1850-70 / Shirley J. Yee -- "A distinct and antagonistic race" : constructions of Chinese manhood in the exclusionist debates, 1869-78 / Karen J. Leong -- Enforcing the borders : Chinese exclusion along the U.S. borders with Canada and Mexico, 1882-1924 / Erika Lee -- When the migrants are men : Italy's women and transnationalism as a working-class way of life / Donna R. Gabaccia -- Boomers, Sooners, and settlers : Americanos in Mexico / John Mason Hart -- Back to the mountain : emigration, gender and the middle class in Lebanon / Akram Fouad Khater -- Reinventing free labor : immigrant padrones and contract laborers in North America, 1885-1925 / Gunther Peck -- Race, labor and citizenship in Hawaii / Evelyn Nakano Glenn -- Turning the tables on assimilation : Oglala Lakotas and the Pine Ridge day schools, 1889-1920s / Thomas G. Andrews -- Confronting "America" : Mexican women and the Rose Gregory Houchen Settlement / Vicki L. Ruiz -- Partly colored or other White : Mexican Americans and their problem with the color line / Neil Foley -- Was Mom Chung a "sister lesbian"? Asian American gender experimentation and interracial homoeroticism / Judy Tzu-Chun Wu -- Intraethnic conflict and the Bracero program during World War II / Matthew Garciá -- Across generations : Polish Americans and Polish immigrants / Mary Patrice Erdmans -- "Ser de aqui"́ : beyond the Cuban exile model / Nancy Raquel Mirabal -- Between culture and politics : the Emma Lazarus Federation of Jewish Women's Clubs, 1944-89 / Joyce Antler -- "We don't sleep around like white girls do" : family, culture, and gender in Filipina American lives / Yen Le Espiritu -- Born again in East L.A. : the congregation as border space / Luiś Leoń -- From Ellis Island to JFK : transnational ties / Nancy Foner.