ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on one of the most striking peculiarities of the United States – its emergence from small and distant settlements, small “islands” in the huge vastness of the American continent, to a superpower. It describes the growing together of various groups of immigrants, with numerous conflicts and struggles, to a nation with its inclusion and
Figure 3.1 Tenement houses (Curtis 2006 [1915], 5)
exclusion processes, its power struggles and its hierarchies, based among other things on the ethnic origins.
