This collection of essays expands upon the themes developed by Bodnar and the current generation of immigration historians and much of their work is listed in the guide to further reading at the end of the volume. In many ways, this book mirrors the state of ethnic and immigration scholarship today.

A Clash of Cultures * Beyond 'America for Americanism:' Inside the Movement Culture of Antebellum Nativism, Dale T. Knobel * Becoming American: Assimilation, Pluralism, and Ethnic Identity, David L. Salvaterra * Us and Them: Reflections on Ethnic Literature, Betty Ann Burch * Haven in a Strange New Land * Home is Where the Heart Is: Immigrant Mobility and Home Ownership, Gordon W. Kirk, Jr. and Carolyn Tyirin Kirk * Parents and Children: Fundamental Questions About Immigrant Family Life, Mary Elizabeth Brown * Mothers and Daughters: Nassau County Italian American Women, Mary Jane Capozzoli Ingui * Agents of Acculturation * The Religious Factor in Immigration: The Dutch Experience, Robert P. Swierenga * The Ethnic Dimension of American Catholic Parochial Education, Timothy Walch * The World of Work: The Croatians of Whiting, Indiana, Edward A. Zivich * The Contours of Ethnic Community * The Changing Face of Ethnic Politics: From Political Machine to Community Organization, Edward R. Kantowicz * The Ethnic Frontier: Rural Germans and the Settlement of America, LaVern J. Rippley * Ethnic Elites and Their Organizations: The St. Louis Experience, 1900-1925, Margaret Lo Piccolo Sullivan * Guide to Further Readings * Index