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Tyler Anbinder is Professor of History at George Washington University. He received his PhD from Columbia University in 1990. His first book, Nativism and slavery(1992), won the Avery Craven Prize from the Organization of American Historians. In 2001, he published Five Point the history of a nineteenth-century immigrant enclave in New York City. Irene Bloemraad is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of California Berkeley. Recent articles on naturalization, dual citizenship, and stste funding of ethnic organizations have appeared in International Migration Review and the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. She is currently finishing her first book, Assimilatory Multiculturalism, an examination of citizenship, advocacy, and elecoral success among Vietnamese and Portuguese migrants in Boston and Toronto. Nancy C. Carnevale is Assistant Professor of History at Montclair State University. Her publications include No Italian Spoken for the Duration of the War: Language, Italian-American Identity, and cultural pluralism in the World War II Years, Which appeared in the Journal of American Ethnic History (Spring 2003). Her forthcoming book entitled Living in translation: Language and Italian Immigrants in the U.S., 1890-1945, will be published by the University of Illinois Press. Her work has been supported by the International Migration ... log in or subscribe to read full text