San Francisco, California
San Francisco was the first great immigrant city of the American West, receiving people from around the world during the California gold rush of 1848–49.
View ArticleToronto, Ontario
Toronto, with a municipal population of 2,481,494 and a census metropolitan population of 4,647,960 (2001) is Canada’s largest and most diverse city.
View ArticleWashington, D.C.
Washington, D.C., is unlike any other city in the United States. Having been established in the 1790s specifically as a new capital city for a new republic, it had no long-standing commercial base.
View ArticleBoston
During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Irish and Italian immigrants significantly changed the political, religious, and cultural life of the predominantly Anglo-Saxon Protestant city of...
View ArticleChicago
With immigrants from Europe, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East, Chicago has become a center of multiculturalism and enriched the United States with a diverse population.
View ArticleChinatowns
American Chinatowns are viewed by some as ethnic ghettos and places of exploitation by an internal Chinese American business elite and by society as a whole.
View ArticleDallas
Although usually perceived as a hub of Texas’s staple industries of oil and cattle, Dallas has long had a wide diversity of flourishing enterprises, including those in the computer and...
View ArticleEthnic enclaves
Ethnic enclaves have long played, and continue to play, significant and normally peaceful roles in bridging the periods between the arrivals of new and culturally different immigrant groups and their...
View ArticleGraham v. Richardson
The Richardson decision was the first in a series of rulings that struck down discriminatory state laws denying public benefits to noncitizens.
View ArticleHouston
Often thought of as a “boomtown” of recent origin, Houston is actually comparatively old by American urban standards.
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