Almost All Aliens offers a unique reinterpretation of immigration in the history of the United States. Setting aside the European migrant-centered melting-pot model of immigrant assimilation Paul Spickard Francisco Beltrán and Laura Hooton put forward a fresh and provocative reconceptualization that embraces the multicultural racialized and colonially inflected reality of immigration that has always existed in the United States. Their astute study illustrates the complex relationship between ethnic identity and race slavery and colonial expansion. Examining the lives of those who crossed the Atlantic as well as those who crossed the Pacific the Caribbean and the North American Borderlands Almost All Aliens provides a distinct inclusive and critical analysis of immigration race and identity in the United States from 1600 until the present. The second edition updates Almost All Aliens through the first two decades of the twenty-first century recounting and analyzing the massive changes in immigration policy the reception of immigrants and immigrant experiences that whipsawed back and forth throughout the era. It includes a new final chapter that brings the story up to the present day. This book will appeal to students and researchers alike studying the history of immigration race and colonialism in the United States as well as those interested in American identity especially in the context of the early twenty-first century. | Almost All Aliens Immigration Race and Colonialism in American History and Identity