title: Almost All Aliens: Immigration, Race, and Colonialism in American History and Identity
author: Paul Spickard
description: <strong>Paul Spickard </strong>is Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is co-author of <em>Revealing</em> <em>the Sacred in Asian and Pacific America</em> (Routledge 2003) and editor of <em>Race and Nation: Ethnic Systems in the</em> <em>Modern World </em>(Routledge 2004).
zlib_text:  American Immigration: A Very Short Introduction 
  
   Very Short Introductions available now: 
  ADVERTISING  Winston Fletcher 
  AFRICAN HISTORY  John Parker and 
  Richard Rathbone 
  AGNOSTICISM Robin Le Poidevin 
  AMERICAN POLITICAL 
  PARTIES AND ELECTIONS  
  L. Sandy Maisel 
  THE AMERICAN 
  PRESIDENCY  Charles O. Jones  
  ANARCHISM Colin Ward 
  ANCIENT EGYPT  Ian Shaw 
  ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY  Julia Annas 
  ANCIENT WARFARE  
  Harry Sidebottom 
  ANGLICANISM Mark Chapman 
  THE ANGLO-SAXON AGE  John Blair 
  ANIMAL RIGHTS  David DeGrazia 
  ANTISEMITISM Steven Beller 
  THE APOCRYPHAL GOSPELS  
  Paul Foster 
  ARCHAEOLOGY  Paul Bahn 
  ARCHITECTURE Andrew Ballantyne 
  ARISTOCRACY  William Doyle 
  ARISTOTLE  Jonathan Barnes 
  ART HISTORY  Dana Arnold 
  ART THEORY  Cynthia Freeland 
  ATHEISM  Julian Baggini 
  AUGUSTINE  Henry Chadwick 
  AUTISM  Uta Frith 
  BARTHES  Jonathan Culler 
  BEAUTY  Roger Scruton 
  BESTSELLERS John Sutherland 
  THE BIBLE  John Riches 
  BIBLICAL ARCHAEOLOGY  
  Eric H. Cline 
  BIOGRAPHY  Hermione Lee 
  THE BLUES  