• Those big agribusiness plantations worked by "illegal immigrants" in California were previously haciendas seized by white magnates who colonized Mexican California, taking over the former patrons' role of relying on peon labor. (c4ss.org)
  • However, one day its carrying capacity will be reached, and if at that point part of the country is filled with the descendants of today's immigrants, natives will have no room into which they can expand. (amren.com)
  • The natives of North America often felt a deep connection to the land. (themeanderer.ca)
  • Invading Europeans justifies their conquests by denying the evidence of American Indian civilisations. (google.tn)
  • This book presents an enthralling look at the depth and diversity of American history - before the Europeans and the deadly epidemics they brought with them decimated whole nations. (google.tn)
  • And here I include our neighbors to the north, who were part of, and are today, like us, a product of the invasion of White Europeans, who stole, plundered, and installed a system that we are now learning to see as "systemic racism. (josephy.org)
  • In the fall of 2021, Pew Research Center undertook the largest focus group study it had ever conducted - 66 focus groups with 264 total participants - to hear Asian Americans talk about their lived experiences in America. (pewresearch.org)
  • He also argued that it's entirely reasonable for nations to discriminate between would-be immigrants based on whether they want to "embrace their culture," or "establish a separate culture within. (c4ss.org)
  • Beginning with the immigrants from Asia, through inventions of agriculture, cities and kingdoms, American First Nations are integral to the history of the United States. (google.tn)
  • To many of the First Nations of North America, they saw themselves as a part of their world. (themeanderer.ca)
  • Even when the kids of Hispanic immigrants - who speak fluent English - speak Spanish to each other, it's a Spanglish that would make their grandmothers throw up their hands in horror. (c4ss.org)
  • The terms "Asian," "Asians living in the United States" and "Asian American" are used interchangeably throughout this essay to refer to U.S. adults who self-identify as Asian, either alone or in combination with other races or Hispanic identity. (pewresearch.org)
  • It was one of the most eloquent statements I have ever heard about a genuine approach to nature that was, to some extent, the position of many North American indigenous people. (themeanderer.ca)
  • In the 20th century, colonial Europe and America imposed the Westphalian nation-state as the official model for international law on a global level. (c4ss.org)
  • As its title suggests, From British Peasants to Colonial American Farmers is a developmental study. (commonplace.online)
  • Widespread landownership, in Kulikoff's opinion, negates the argument, espoused by historians ranging from Louis Hartz in the 1950s to Jon Butler in 2000, that colonial America was born capitalistic. (commonplace.online)
  • Allan Kulikoff, From British Peasants to Colonial American Farmers. (commonplace.online)
  • In other words, even if the carrying capacity of the United States is as high as 600 million or more, if that population figure is ever reached, some portion will be the descendants of genetically alien immigrants. (amren.com)
  • The digression on race is because one cannot read Indian Horse without wondering at the viciousness, cruelty, and disdain of Whites towards Indians. (josephy.org)
  • Wrested from the American Indians who were its original inhabitants, Quebec became first a French, then a British colony, and finally a part of the Canadian confederation. (icomos.org)
  • The dominant culture of America descends from people who came to this continent adamantly set on remaining, not English-Americans, but English. (c4ss.org)
  • As for older first generation immigrants who have trouble learning English, they're no different from the Polish and Italian-speaking grandparents many people fondly remember in Chicago, or the Norsk and German speakers Sinclair Lewis portrayed in Minnesota. (c4ss.org)
  • BlackPast is dedicated to providing a global audience with reliable and accurate information on the history of African America and of people of African ancestry around the world. (blackpast.org)
  • The first fact of the history of American immigration is genocide: the displacement and destruction of the Native people of North America. (sustainlv.org)
  • Altogether, nearly one million people emigrated to North America during the second half of the century. (sustainlv.org)
  • Immigrant refers to people who were not U.S. citizens at birth - in other words, those born outside the U.S., Puerto Rico or other U.S. territories to parents who were not U.S. citizens. (pewresearch.org)
  • Second generation refers to people born in the 50 states or the District of Columbia with at least one first-generation, or immigrant, parent. (pewresearch.org)
  • The pan-ethnic term "Asian American" describes the population of about 22 million people living in the United States who trace their roots to more than 20 countries in East and Southeast Asia and the Indian subcontinent. (pewresearch.org)
  • At the same time, there is a fast growing, U.S.-born generation of Asian Americans who are navigating their own connections to familial heritage and their own experiences growing up in the U.S. (pewresearch.org)
  • The story spans two continents and more than two centuries. (commonplace.online)
  • Through the centuries, the Republic that eventuated in North America has maintained a maximum of chutzpah and a minimum of awareness in forging a creation myth that sees slavery and dispossession not as foundational but as inimical to the founding of the nation now known as the United States. (sustainlv.org)
  • However, the "Asian" label masks the diverse demographics and wide economic disparities across the largest national origin groups (such as Chinese, Indian, Filipino) and the less populous ones (such as Bhutanese, Hmong and Nepalese) living in America. (pewresearch.org)
  • The main features of this environment are a harsh climate, a vast territory, the relatively recent establishment of a North American civilization that is European in origin, the French fact, Catholicism and a particular pattern of human settlement. (icomos.org)
  • Quebec's political history has been marked by the struggle to preserve its French and Catholic roots on a North American continent where the majority of the population is and has been English-speaking. (icomos.org)
  • More than 24 million Americans in the U.S. trace their roots to more than 20 countries in East and Southeast Asia and the Indian subcontinent. (pewresearch.org)
  • By aiming at "a big history of small farmers" (xi), Kulikoff is undoubtedly tackling a vital subject, of critical significance for much of American history. (commonplace.online)
  • At a time when small farms had disappeared from large parts of Europe, they were ubiquitous in America. (commonplace.online)
  • It traces the origins of American small farmers to medieval Europe and tracks their growth down to the American Revolution. (commonplace.online)
  • At the time of his death in 1934, the African Orthodox church claimed over 30,000 members, fifty clergy and thirty churches located on three continents: North America, South America and Africa. (blackpast.org)
  • In a world of genetically modified crops, Bovine Spongiform Encaphalopathy, and agribusiness, it is hard to imagine a time when small-scale family farming dominated in North America. (commonplace.online)
  • He's a Canadian Ojibwa, so there are two counts against him in the American (read US) book world. (josephy.org)
  • Because they lived on the periphery of the capitalist world, American farmers sold their crops to English capitalists, bought goods made by wage workers, and sought overseas capital. (commonplace.online)
  • The United States is dominated by a range of old mountains and plateaus-the Appalachians-that runs north and south on the east side of the North American continent and young ranges of lofty mountains-the Rockies, Cascades, and Sierra Nevada-that run north and south in the western quarter of the continent. (britannica.com)
  • The terms "immigrant," "first generation" and "foreign born" are used interchangeably in this report. (pewresearch.org)
  • The mainland is located between Mexico on the south and Canada on the north and between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. (britannica.com)
  • In reality, Chavez had African, Indian, and European heritage, was elected 8 times by Venezuela's poor, and was a practicante de la religion Yoruba. (afrocubaweb.com)
  • Most respondents were either Black/African American (26), White (25) or MENA (23). (cdc.gov)
  • And that language, in the most extreme forms, was the official dialect (BBC Standard or American Network Standard English, Standard High German, Ile-de-France French, Standard Castilian, etc. (c4ss.org)
  • Exactly a century ago in 1908, determined pioneers from Punjab, India came together against many odds to build one of the first Sikh gurdwaras in North America - the Khalsa Diwan Society Gur Sikh Temple - in the small rural community of Abbotsford, BC. (sikhphilosophy.net)
  • In North America, the 20th century has been literally the "best of times and the worst of times" for Punjabis. (sikhphilosophy.net)
  • But from the early seventeenth century to the end of the nineteenth, most Americans lived on small farms. (commonplace.online)
  • Little by little, the immigrant phenomenon has altered the physiognomy and mentality of Quebec's population. (icomos.org)
  • The discovery of gold and silver in America, the extirpation, enslavement and entombment in mines of the aboriginal population, the beginning of the conquest and looting of the East Indies, the turning of Africa into a warren for the hunting of black skins, signaled the rosy dawn of the era of capitalist production. (sustainlv.org)
  • The irony gets pretty thick if you remember - unlike Jindal - that English is the native language not of America, but of England. (c4ss.org)
  • The American landscape has evolved over millions of years. (britannica.com)
  • US funds political groups in Venezuela despite ban 7/28/2014 AP: "Almost four years after Venezuela enacted a law to bar the U.S. from funding groups frequently critical of the socialist government, millions of the American dollars the administration tried to ban still flow to these organizations, an analysis by The Associated Press shows. (afrocubaweb.com)
  • The approach also allowed us to explore the reasons behind people's opinions and choices about what it means to belong in America, beyond the preset response options of a traditional survey. (pewresearch.org)
  • Conventional survey methods typically reflect the voices of larger groups without fully capturing the broad range of views, attitudes, life starting points and perspectives experienced by Asian Americans. (pewresearch.org)
  • And, psst - I hear there are some American occupation troops, and corporate personnel extracting other countries' resources, who don't learn the local languages either! (c4ss.org)
  • The year 1492 marked the beginning of the bloody conquest of America by Spain and Portugal with the blessing of the Roman Catholic Church - a church in power, which had the shift towards human rights and democracy, catholic social teaching and cooperativism yet ahead of it. (zeit-fragen.ch)
  • The immigrants to North America sought to recreate what they had lost, and they found more opportunities than they could ever have imagined. (commonplace.online)
  • As late as the American Revolution, Kulikoff states, capitalism had not yet reached America, primarily because freehold farmers worked their own land, largely with the assistance of their families, rather than by employing rural wage laborers. (commonplace.online)
  • On April 21, 1885, a steamship left Christiana (now, Oslo) Norway for Liverpool, England and then on to a 9-day voyage for North America. (sustainlv.org)
  • What Euro-Canada did give to Indians was hockey (as we have given them basketball). (josephy.org)
  • Elizabeth's decision to emigrate was an act of awe-inspiring courage and resolve even though she had more than ample reason to fear for her family's future if she remained in Norway and realized that the American frontier was her only option. (sustainlv.org)