TY - JOUR
AU - Barkan, Elliott Robert
AB - 546 The Journal of American History September 2013 low-paying jobs such as track layers on the North- the linkage of race and immigration policies. ern Pacificand Canadian PacificRailroads.Much However, Spickard saved for last David G. Gutiér- too often in the past these key actors have rated rez’s outstanding analysis of the two-nation, bi- little more than a line or two. cultural expanding border zone stitched together Historians, and not just specialists in border- and secured by an arrangement of institutions, lands, will profit greatly from reading Chang’s organizations, transnational activities across the thought-inspiring account. Moreover, even as zone that were continually redefined in terms of his text adds depth to previous histories of the communal activities. They represented, as Gu- Pacific portions of United States and Canada, tiérrez puts it, a “third space,” one neither wholly he provides, as a welcome bonus, an excellent American nor wholly Mexican—but part of and bibliography that will certainly encourage fur- yet apart from the two nation-states that consti- ther research. tute the foundations of this novel situation. While this reviewer in his own work has described such Carlos A. Schwantes transnational bonds, Gutiérrez goes one step fur- University of Missouri–St. Louis ther 
TI - Race and Immigration in the United States: New Histories
JO - The Journal of American History
DO - 10.1093/jahist/jat248
DA - 2013-09-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/race-and-immigration-in-the-united-states-new-histories-5er5WugnE3
SP - 546
EP - 547
VL - 100
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -