American Identity and Immigrant Resentment: A Data-Driven Learning Guide

Data-Driven Learning Guides are a collection of instructional exercises that can be used to enhance teaching of core concepts in the social sciences. This learning guide investigates the relationship between social identity and attitudes toward out-group members. Specifically, it explores the relationship between American identity and immigrant resentment, and examines how this resentment in turn may influence atttitudes about immigration policies. Frequency distributions, crosstabulations, corr... (more info)

Data-Driven Learning Guides are a collection of instructional exercises that can be used to enhance teaching of core concepts in the social sciences. This learning guide investigates the relationship between social identity and attitudes toward out-group members. Specifically, it explores the relationship between American identity and immigrant resentment, and examines how this resentment in turn may influence atttitudes about immigration policies. Frequency distributions, crosstabulations, correlations, and multiple regression are used for the analyses.

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2011
Schildkraut, Deborah J. Americanism in the Twenty-First century: Public Opinion in the Age of Immigration. New York: Cambridge University Press.
2009
Berg, Justin Allen . Core networks and whites' attitudes toward immigrants and immigration policy. Public Opinion Quarterly. 73, (1), 7-31.
2009
Citrin, Jack,  Wright, Matthew . Defining the circle of we: American identity and immigration policy. The Forum: A Journal of Applied Research in Contemporary Politics. 7, (3), article 6
2008
Barboza, Gia E.,  Hero, Rodney . Ethnic racial change and evolving perceptions of Americanism. Annual Meeting of the Southern Political Science Association. .
2008
Schildkraut, Deborah . Immigrant resentment: When the work ethic backfires. Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association. Boston, MA.
2008
Sobczak, Michael J. Attitudes Toward Immigrants and Immigration Policy in the United States: A Structural Approach. Dissertation, University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign.
2007
Schildkraut, Deborah J. Defining American identity in the Twenty-First Century: How much 'there' is there?. Journal of Politics. 69, (3), 597-615.
2006
Cox, Lauren A. Factors that Predict Attitudes toward Immigration: Income and Socioeconomic Status. Southern Sociological Society. New Orleans, LA.
2005
Schildkraut, Deborah . 21st Century Americanism: What it is and where it comes from. Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association. Washington, DC.
2005
Schildkraut, Deborah J. Press 'ONE' for English : Language Policy, Public Opinion, and American Identity. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.