Journal of American Ethnic History articles from January 1995

Journal of American Ethnic History archives from January 1995

Black and Jewish responses to Japanese internment.
January 1, 1995... of world democracy." By 1946 Adam Clayton Powell Jr., Chicago UL's Earl Dickerson, and Carey McWilliams (who was still using the word "Jap" in 1944) served on its advisory board. Chiye Mori, JACD, to NAACP, 5 January 1946, NAACP, II, A 325....

Race, religion, and nationality in American society: a model of ethnicity - from contact to assimilation.
January 1, 1995... of Latinos, by Earl Shorris, New York Times Book Review, 13 December 1992. 3. His recent collection of essays is an excellent starting point, in particular chapter 3, "The Odd Couple: Pluralism and Assimilation," in Speaking of Diversity:...

Comment. (comment on article by E. Barkan, in this issue, p. 38)
January 1, 1995... We are indebted to Elliott Barkan for this courageous attempt to bring greater precision and rigor to our discussion of changes which are attendant to encounters of migrants and indigenous peoples with the dominant ethnoculture. As he...

Comment. (comment on article by E. Barkan, in this issue, p. 38)
January 1, 1995... Elliott Barkan's article offers a welcome change from much recent discussion of ethnicity in the United States, which rejects in a priori fashion assimilation as a major pattern (and the predominant one for many groups). I share with Barkan the...

Comment. (comment on article by E. Barkan, in this issue, p. 38)
January 1, 1995... Elliott Barkan's paper is an important sign of a renewed interest among immigration and ethnic historians in the process of assimilation. Although assimilation was once one of the central concepts of American history, it has suffered much neglect...

Response. (response to R. Vecoli, in this issue, p.76, R. Alba, in this issue, p. 82, O. Zunz, in this issue, p. 91)
January 1, 1995... Few who have lived in America have long remained indifferent to the appeal of the new culture. With the advent of the mass culture and mass media by the 1920s, it was even more difficult to do so. A people either had to be relatively isolated and...

American Immigration, 2d ed.
January 1, 1995... Readers of this journal are familiar with the first (1960) edition of Maldwyn Jones' one-volume survey of American immigration history. It has benefited many students and other readers who are not specialists in the field. For some, however, it...

Nations of Immigrants: Australia, the United States, and International Migration.
January 1, 1995... The comparative method is a useful tool which enables social scientists to distinguish universals from particulars and to hypothesize causal relations in complex multivariate systems. However, to be effective it involves more than the...

Silent Travelers: Germs, Genes, and the "Immigrant Menace."
January 1, 1995... In ten informative chapters Alan Kraut traces what he calls "the double helix of health and fear" that has accompanied American immigration from colonial times to the present (p. 9). Ironically and inextricably, the strands of fear of foreign...

The Little Slaves of the Harp: Italian Child Street Musicians in Nineteenth-Century Paris, London and New York.
January 1, 1995... The Little Slaves of the Harp is a narrative history which traces the migrations of children and their padroni from three rural areas in Italy to Paris, London and New York City during the mid- and late-nineteenth century. The children worked in...

Polish Immigrants and Industrial Chicago: Workers on the South Side, 1880-1922.
January 1, 1995... Dominic Pacyga focuses on the Polish working-class communities in South Chicago to explain immigrant reactions to the conditions they faced in the American urban industrial environment. Beginning with a detailed analysis of the migration...

Hasidic People: A Place in the New World.
January 1, 1995... Even before the novels of Chaim Potok and the disturbances at the headquarters of the Lubavitcher Hasidim in Brooklyn's Crown Heights there was curiosity about the strangely garbed Hasidim. Were they a sect or a cult, or simply a separatist...

Mission to America: Five Islamic Sectarian Communities in North America.
January 1, 1995... Yvonne Hazbeck Haddad and Jane Idleman Smith's Mission to America illustrates the diversity found in American Islam. The five sectarian Muslim groups portrayed in the book are the Druze, who originate in Lebanon, Syria and Palestine; the...

Women, Family, and Utopia: Communal Experiments of the Shakers, the Oneida Community, and the Mormons.
January 1, 1995... Lawrence Foster has once again settled on a study of the nineteenth-century Shakers, Mormons, and Oneida Community to examine the past - but this time for what they might say to the goals of modern feminist theology. The 1981 book, Religion and...

A Hawaiian Nation, vol. 2, A Call for Hawaiian Sovereignty.
January 1, 1995... In 1993 the Hawaii State Legislature created a Hawaiian Sovereignty Advisory Commission, composed of nineteen members, to advise the legislature on the convening of a convention that would create the government for a Hawaiian nation. It should be...

In Search of Equality: The Chinese Struggle against Discrimination in Nineteenth-Century America.
January 1, 1995... Despite being the targets of prejudice and discrimination, the Chinese in nineteenth-century America were not passive victims. Charles McClain documents how they actively sought the protection of United States law in state and federal courts....

The Vietnamese Experience in America.
January 1, 1995... Rutledge's The Vietnamese Experience in America provides the best that anthropological research can offer to the study of the adjustment of forced migrants to a new culture. He shows how the, cultural traits of the Vietnamese people - resilience,...

From Shore to Shore: Irish Traditional Music in New York City.
January 1, 1995... This video traces Irish traditional music from the Sunday night crossroads dances in rural Ireland to the homes and dance halls of the South Bronx. It shows how music was woven into the sociocultural fabric of the Irish-American community with...