Immigration places America at the centre of a web of global networks — so why not make it easier? America’s Chinese restaurants represent the cultural divide of the East and West as Chinese immigrants struggle for survival. Mark Engler on the immigrant rights movement after Arizona. A review of Everything You Know About Indians Is Wrong by Paul Chaat Smith. Doris Meissner on five myths about immigration. Since the last push for reform in 2006, America has become a much harder place to be an immigrant. Days after the US elected the first president of color, seven high school boys set out looking for Hispanics to beat up in a Long Island village; spotting Marcelo, they surrounded him, punching and kicking, then stabbed him. A review of Mixing Cultural Identities Through Transracial Adoption by Susan Harness. Why so few blacks join immigration rallies: African immigrants don’t see the plight of Latinos and others as their struggle. The introduction to New Faces, New Voices: The Hispanic Electorate in America by Marisa Abrajano and R. Michael Alvarez. An interview with David Levering Lewis on how black historians need to seize control of our history. A review of Searching for Whitopia: An Improbable Journey to the Heart of White America by Rich Benjamin. Kevin Sieff on the profitable game of including immigrants in the census, then deporting them. A review of Homeland Insecurity: The Arab American and Muslim American Experience After 9/11 by Louise Cainkar. Will Julian Castro, the 35-year-old mayor of San Antonio, be the next great Latino hope on the national stage? Boca Raton is quintessentially American today, but 100 years ago it was a hotbed of Japanese know-how. In 1892, Annie Moore was the first foreigner to arrive at Ellis Island; by 1893, she was an American mystery.
