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48 pages : color illustrations, charts ; 24 cm.
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English
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"There are almost 8 billion people in the world and over 300 million people in the US! What do you know about who we are and what has shaped our communities? This book explains that we can use data to learn about the diversity in the US and how our communities have been shaped by our past." -- From back cover
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342 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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English
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In 1907 the U.S. Congress created a joint commission to investigate what many Americans saw as a national crisis: an unprecedented number of immigrants flowing into the United States. Experts--women and men trained in the new field of social science--fanned out across the country to collect data on these fresh arrivals. The trove of information they amassed shaped how Americans thought about immigrants, themselves, and the nation's place in the world....
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