Videos

Panelists spoke on the topic “What Makes an American? Historical Perspectives on Immigration.” They addressed issues such as repeating patterns of immigration to the U.S., perceptions of im…

Panelists talked about Reinventing the Melting Pot: The New Immigrants and What It Means to Be American, published by Basic Books. The book, edited by Ms. Jacoby, is a collection of twenty-t…

Participants talked about the demographics of immigration from countries in the Middle East to the U.S. Among the issues they addressed were the number and influence of Muslim immigrants, th…

Peter Skerry, author of Counting on the Census? Race, Group Identity and the Evasion of Politics, talked about the importance and weight that is attached to the census. He said the U.S. pla…