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A new history of immigration /

"The United States has long been touted as a place where anyone with a little grit and determination could come to pursue the American Dream. But as more walls are erected and borders are closed, is that dream still alive today? A New History of Immigration introduces young readers to alternati...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Backhaus, Jaclyn (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2022.
Series:True history (Penguin Workshop (Firm))
Subjects:
United States > Emigration and immigration > History > Juvenile literature.
Immigrants > United States > History > Juvenile literature.
United States > Emigration and immigration > History.
Emigration and immigration.
Immigrants.
United States.
Immigrants > United States > Juvenile literature.
Immigrants > United States.
United States > Immigration and emigration > Juvenile literature.
United States > Immigration and emigration.
History.
Juvenile works.
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue: "The Conversation"
  • America: A Nation of Immigrants?
  • The Power of Words
  • Our Borderlands
  • Early Waves of Immigration
  • The Statue of Liberty, the Golden Door
  • Asian Immigration and the Civil Rights Movement
  • Moving Forward from Going Back
  • America's Future.