The problem and the challenge: How did the city change the American character? Why and how did immigrants come to the city? Why did immigrants settle in cities? How did Puerto Ricans come to the city? How did the Negro come to the city? How did the cities receive the newcomers? How did the newcomers fare in the cities? How do immigrant and migrant experiences as newcomers compare? What did newcomers contribute to our cities and our country? Is the city a melting pot?
Selected readings: The Protestant establishment, by E. D. Baltzell. Wee pals, by M. Turner. The notorious steerage, by E. J. Anderson. The "sloopfolk" arrive, by T. C. Blegen. The Forty-Eighters, by T. Huebener. Urban Irish, by B. Considine. Leonardo, by A. M. Pellegrini. The promised land, by M. Antin. Chinatown, West, by C. Lee. Nisei daughter, by M. Sone. Only in America, by H. Golden. Movin' on up, by M. Jackson with E. M. Wylie. Coming of age in Nueva York, by P. Hamill. The man with the guitar, by S. Steiner. The immigrant contribution, by J. F. Kennedy. Urban faces, a photographic essay, by S. Bernstein. Bibliography (p. 186)
