The Miami Valley School Library

A new history of immigration /

Backhaus, Jaclyn,

A new history of immigration / by Jaclyn Backhaus. - 160 pages, 8 unumbered pages of plates ; illustrations ; 22 cm - True history .

Includes bibliographical references (page 160).

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.

"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 alternative histories of immigration beyond Ellis Island and amplifies the voices of marginalized immigrants and their stories of success"--

Ages 10 and up Penguin Workshop

9780593386125

2022019476

JV6450 / .B33 2022

304.8 BAC