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LITR 43
40 American Immigrant Literature

Research 

Links

 

 

Government, legal, & advocacy webpages regarding immigration

American Immigration Center

American Immigration Law Foundation (includes "Teacher's Corner" with lesson plans for secondary grades)

FAIR: the Federation for American Immigration Reform (for limits on immigration)

ImmigrationRoad.com (immigration resources website offering practical solutions and information contributed directly by immigrants--not a lawfirm site)

Project USA for an Immigration Time-Out

National Immigration Forum (pro-immigration)

American Family Immigration Center (genealogical records)

White House Conference on Minority Homeownership: Blueprint for the American Dream

Angel Island (Chinese Immigrant History)

 

 

Courses & educational resources on immigration

The American Immigration Home Page (10th grade history class project)

Chinese Immigrant Literature & Film (UCLA)

LITR 265: Themes in Literature: The American Immigrant Experience (Bucks County Community College, Newtown PA)

The American Dream & Experience in Literature (Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute)

Coming to America in search of the American Dream: Immigrant Voices (oral history project includes interviews with immigrants)

Cambridge History of English and American Literature: The Literature of the Immigrant

The Jewish Virtual Library (home page)

The Jewish Virtual Library (biographies)

Ancestors from Norway (mostly genealogical, but some history of Norwegian-American immigration)

Internet Modern History Sourcebook: US Immigration

Landmarks in American Immigration History

New York Public Library bibliography of immigrant literature

The Archive of Jewish Immigrant Culture

Filipino American Literature

Immigrant Literature lesson plan

Discussing Immigration through Literature (multi-disciplinary lesson plan)

Swedish Immigration to America

The Ethnic Literature of New York City

 

 

 

Sources on "The American Dream"

The American Dream & Experience in Literature (Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute)

Coming to America in search of the American Dream: Immigrant Voices (oral history project includes interviews with immigrants)

"Living the American Immigrant Dream" (article from Business Journal of Greater Milwaukee)

"Volunteers help make Immigrant's American Dream Come True" (article from North County Times of California)

The American Dream: Immigration to America (a "webquest" for constructing a history project)

Literary Origins of "the American Dream" phrase

American Dream Pizza

The American Dream: Our Heritage of Hope (mostly about business success)

Customs and Culture in the US (U. of Arizona)

 

Miscellaneous

Review of book describing North American wildlife as immigrants

Article on political issues involved in immigration

NumbersUSA: site on U. S. overpopulation, especially immigration's threat to the environment

 

Websites of literary terms

A Glossary of Rhetorical Terms with Examples (University of Kentucky Classics)

All-American: Glossary of Literary Terms (U of North Carolina-Pembroke)

The Virtual Classroom Glossary of Literary Terms

Literary Terms

Glossary of Poetic Terms

The Literary Encyclopedia

Literary Encyclopedia Glossary of Terms

Virtual Salt Glossary of Literary Terms

Glossary of Theological Terms

Glossary of Grammatical Terms

Glossaries, Concordances, Quotations on the Web

 

MLA style sheet

 

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