The growing number of immigrants living and working in America has become a
controversial topic from classrooms to corporations and from kitchen tables to Capitol Hill.
Many native-born Americans fear that competition from new arrivals will undermine the
economic standing of low-skilled American workers, and that immigrants may not
successfully integrate into the US economy. In Color Lines, Country Lines, sociologist
Lingxin Hao argues that the current influx of immigrants is changing America's class …

Nobody's Burden: Lessons on Old Age from the Great Depression is the first book-length
study of the experience of old-age during the Great Depression. Part history, part social
critique, the contributors rely on archival research, social history, narrative study and
theoretical analysis to argue that Americans today, as in the past, need to rethink old-age
policy and accept their shared responsibility for elder care. The Great Depression serves as
the cultural backdrop to this argument, illustrating that during times of social and economic …