An Immigrant Neighborhood: Interethnic and Interracial Encounters in New York before 1930

Examining race and ethnic relations through an intersectional lens, Shirley J. Yee's An Immigrant Neighborhood investigates the ways that race, class, and gender together shaped concepts of integration and assimilation as well as concepts of whiteness and citizenship in lower Manhattan during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

In contrast to accounts of insulated neighborhoods and ethnic enclaves, Yee's study unearths the story of working-class urban dwellers of various ethni...