Journal of American Ethnic History articles from January 1996

Journal of American Ethnic History archives from January 1996

Irish-American Catholics and the quest for respectability in the coming of the Great War, 1900-1917.
January 1, 1996... The outbreak of war in 1914 found Irish-American Catholics moving toward a pivotal point of transition in their progressive assimilation into American society. In the nineteenth century, Irish Catholic immigrants had been greeted with contempt...

Machine politics and the consolidation of the Roosevelt majority: the case of Italian Americans in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia. (Pennsylvania)
January 1, 1996... Scholars have long dismissed the so-called "last hurrah" thesis of Edwin O'Connor's best-selling novel. They do not accept the idea that the nationalization of assistance was responsible for the vanishing of machines in the United States because...

City on the Edge: The Transformation of Miami.
January 1, 1996... By Alejandro Portes and Alex Stepick. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993. xiv + 281 pp. Maps, tables, figures, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $25.00 (cloth); $15.00 (paper). For most of the twentieth century,...

Miami Now! Immigration, Ethnicity and Social Change.
January 1, 1996... Edited by Guillermo J. Grenier and Alex Stepick. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1991. xvi + 219 pp. Tables, figures, illustrations, notes, references, and index. $34.95 (cloth); $16.95 (paper). For most of the twentieth century,...

The Exile: Cuba in the Heart of Miami.
January 1, 1996... By David Rieff. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1993. 220 pp. Index. $21.00 (cloth); $11.00 (paper). For most of the twentieth century, Florida has been buffetted by powerful forces of transforming change, especially the change produced by...

Maya in Exile: Guatamalans in Florida.
January 1, 1996... For most of the twentieth century, Florida has been buffetted by powerful forces of transforming change, especially the change produced by migration and immigration. Indeed, much of Florida's modern history can be read as a dizzying set of...

Ethnic transformations in late-twentieth-century Florida.
January 1, 1996... By Allan F. Burns. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1993. xlvii + 208 pp. Tables, illustrations, bibliography, and index. $39.95 (cloth); $14.95 (paper). For most of the twentieth century, Florida has been buffetted by powerful forces...

Righteous Discontent: The Women's Movement in the Black Baptist Church, 1880-1929.
January 1, 1996... By Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1993. xii + 306 pp. Notes and index. $14.95 (paper). The 1990s have been a golden age for literature on black churches and African-American religion. Numerous works have...

Sparks from the Anvil of Oppression: Philadelphia's African Methodists and Southern Migrants, 1890-1940.
January 1, 1996... By Robert Gregg. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1993. xiii + 272 pp. Maps, tables, notes and index. $39.95. The 1990s have been a golden age for literature on black churches and African-American religion. Numerous works have been...

Under Their Own Vine and Fig Tree: The African-American Church in the South, 1865-1900.
January 1, 1996... By William E. Montgomery. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1993. xiii + 358 pp. Illustrations and index. $29.95. The 1990s have been a golden age for literature on black churches and African-American religion. Numerous works...

Old Ship of Zion: The Afro-Baptist Ritual in the African Diaspora.
January 1, 1996... By Walter F. Pitts, Jr. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. viii + 199 pp. Tables, references and index. $29.95. The 1990s have been a golden age for literature on black churches and African-American religion. Numerous works have been...

Church People in the Struggle: The National Council of Churches and the Black Freedom Movement, 1950-1970.
January 1, 1996... By James F. Findlay, Jr. New York: Oxford university Press, 1993. xix + 255 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $35.00. The 1990s have been a golden age for literature on black churches and African-American religion. Numerous works have been...

The Afro-American Jeremiad: Appeals for Justice in America.
January 1, 1996... The 1990s have been a golden age for literature on black churches and African-American religion. Numerous works have been written by scholars who examine the various roles that religious institutions play in the black community. Many of these...

A glorious age for African-American religion.
January 1, 1996... Righteous Discontent: The Women's Movement in the Black Baptist Church, 1880-1929. By Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1993. xii + 306 pp. Notes and index. $14.95 (paper). Spartks From the Anvil of Opression:...

Ethnicity, Race, and American Foreign Policy: A History.
January 1, 1996... In a sweeping synthesis based almost exclusively on secondary sources and written thirty-five years after the publication of his first book, Entangling Alliance: Politics and Diplomacy under George Washington (1958), Alexander DeConde examines...

Divided We Fall: A History of Ethnic, Religious, and Racial Prejudice in America.
January 1, 1996... One hesitates to write a negative review, particularly of a book by someone whose major life work has been admirable. Philip Perlmutter is an admirable person. He was executive director of the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Boston...

Structuring Diversity: Ethnographic Perspectives on the New Immigration.
January 1, 1996... Louise Lamphere has assembled a collection of essays that is at once theoretically sophisticated and empirically rich. Informed by her introduction, which addresses theoretical and methodological issues concerned with ethnographic research, the...

Making America: The Society and Culture of the United States.
January 1, 1996... In this volume of essays, impressive in scope and size, twenty-eight leading scholars and critics present an interdisciplinary approach to understanding American history and culture. Editor Luther Luedtke writes that the contributors "represent a...

From the Other Side: Women, Gender, and Immigrant Life in the U.S., 1820-1990.
January 1, 1996... This book is a timely and much needed synthesis of the findings of hundreds of studies that have accumulated since the 1970s, based on various aspects of the experiences in the United States of immigrant women who are from different ethnic groups...

Women's Voices in Hawaii.
January 1, 1996... Scholars in recent years have looked to Hawaii for clues to the direction American ethnicity and ethnic relations may take in the coming decades. Hawaii in the nineteenth century - very much like the mainland United States since 1965 - attracted...

Separatism and Subculture: Boston Catholicism, 1900-1920.
January 1, 1996... Separatism and Subculture examines the emergence early in this century of an Irish Catholic, middle-class subculture in Boston. The creation of the subculture was a complex and contradictory undertaking. The Catholic hierarchy and their lay...

Between Melting Pot and Mosaic: African Americans and Puerto Ricans in the New York Political Economy.
January 1, 1996... This stimulating new book is an attempt both to understand the economic and demographic shifts that have transformed the fabric of ethnic life in New York in the years since World War II and to develop a progressive strategy for policies that...

The "Underclass" Debate: Views From History.
January 1, 1996... Edited by Michael B. Katz. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993. viii + 507 pp. Figures, tables, notes, and indices. $59.50 (cloth); $16.95 (paper). Since the appearance of the term "underclass" almost ten years ago, historians and...

In the Barrios: Latinos and the Underclass Debate.
January 1, 1996... Since the appearance of the term "underclass" almost ten years ago, historians and social scientists have sought to determine both the utility of this label and the nature and extent of this phenomenon. Scholars can sharpen our perceptions of...

No Crooked Death: Coatesville, Pennsylvania and the Lynching of Zachariah Walker.
January 1, 1996... Between 1890 and 1910 foreign immigrants and southern blacks flooded into Coatesville, Pennsylvania, to labor at one of the village's two steel mills. The number of whites in Coatesville swelled from 3,679 to 11,082. Coatesville's black...

Antisemitism in America.
January 1, 1996... Popular wisdom within the contemporary Jewish community holds that challenges to the sustained vitality of Jewish group identity are now fundamentally internal, i.e., strengthening the ties and loyalties of Jews to other Jews and to Judaism,...

Observing America's Jews.
January 1, 1996... Until his death in March 1992, Marshall Sklare was the foremost observer of contemporary Jewish life. Almost single-handedly he had transformed the sociology of American Jewry from the plaything of dabblers and special pleaders into a serious...

Rain of Gold.
January 1, 1996... A Chicano Roots is what Villasenor calls Rain of Gold, a non-fiction, historical narrative that took him ten years to write. Villasenor recounts the struggles and adventures of three generations of his family as they migrated from revolutionary...

Asian Americans and the Supreme Court: A Documentary History.
January 1, 1996... While those of African descent often seem to be the ultimate "outsiders" in terms of minority groups in the United States, an examination of Supreme Court cases dealing with questions of race tells a different and surprising story. Indeed,...

Asians and Pacific Islanders in the United States.
January 1, 1996... Stressing the heterogeneity and complexity of the Asian American and Pacific Islander population, this comprehensive and useful work examines "how some of the larger Asian American ethnic groups are faring in American society" (p. 9). It is one...

On Our Own Ground: The Complete Writings of William Apess, A Pequot.
January 1, 1996... The writings of the Pequot Indian, William Apess, have been so little known until recently that there has been no clear consensus even over how to spell his name. (He has usually appeared as Apes). Yet Apess' autobiographical and polemical books...

The Skulking Way of War: Technology and Tactics Among the Indians of New England.
January 1, 1996... Twenty years ago, Patrick Malone completed his doctoral dissertation on "Indian and English Military Systems in New England in the Seventeenth Century." On first glance, one might suspect that the publication of this slim, large format book,...

American Holocaust: Columbus and the Conquest of the New World.
January 1, 1996... One can ponder this problem of guilt and how it hangs on the national conscience of major nations, such as Germany and Japan, which have made apologies for horrific behavior during World War II. David Stannard, in his stunning book dealing with...

Acadian to Cajun: Transformation of a People.
January 1, 1996... How have the Cajuns of south Louisiana been able to fashion and maintain a distinctive culture and language for almost two centuries in Anglo-America? Any attempt to answer that question must now start with Carl Brasseaux's seminal study, which...

French America: Mobility, Identity, and Minority Experience Across the Continent.
January 1, 1996... Edited by Dean R. Louder and Eric Waddell. Translated by Franklin Philip. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1992. xviii + 371 pp. Maps, tables, notes, and index. $42.50 (cloth); $16.95 (paper). Is there a French America?...

Les Etats-Unis et leur immigrants: Des modes d'insertion varies.
January 1, 1996... Is there a French America? Certainly there are Quebecois. There are Ontarois. There are the millions in the United States who can trace their ancestry back to the banks of the Saint Lawrence, some of whom still claim French as their mother...

A Meech Lake Post-Mortem: Is Quebec Sovereignty Inevitable?
January 1, 1996... Pierre Fournier, a political science professor at l'Universite du Quebec a Montreal, was one of Canadian television's most sought after commentators on Canada's constitutional "crisis." His A Meech Lake Post-Mortem is undoubtedly the most...

Trade Unions and Community: The German Working Class in New York City, 1870-1900.
January 1, 1996... Dorothee Schneider's well researched monograph uses the cigar makers, brewers, and bakers as windows into the ethnic, working-class world of German immigrants in late nineteenth-century New York City. A German-born student of Herbert Gutman,...

Cradle to Grave: Life, Work and Death at the Lake Superior Copper Mines.
January 1, 1996... Larry Lankton notes in the first chapter of Cradle to Grave, his magisterial social history of the copper mining industry in northern Michigan's far-off Keweenaw Peninsula, that he lives and works in the university community of Houghton at the...

A Way of Work and a Way of Life: Coal Mining in Thurber, Texas, 1888-1926.
January 1, 1996... Rhinehart's narrowly defined topic is ideally suited to a case study approach. Clearly delineated geographic, industrial, and chronological boundaries afford a manageable focus that results in a carefully organized study of the town of Thurber,...

One's Own Hearth is Like Gold: A History of Helvetia, West Virginia.
January 1, 1996... In this work, David Sutton recounts the history of his birthplace. While not a trained historian, Sutton is an archivist and document curator. He has the sensibilities of the professional historian and he sets his story of Helvetia firmly in the...

Family, Church, and Market: A Mennonite Community in the Old and the New Worlds, 1850-1930.
January 1, 1996... Of the 18,000 Mennonites who left Russia for North America in the 1870s, 900 belonged to the Kleine Gemeinde group. Upon arriving, 110 families settled in Manitoba and 56 in southeastern Nebraska, reflecting the almost forgotten schism of 1866....

Racially Mixed People in America.
January 1, 1996... Despite greater scholarly and public attention on American society metamorphosing into a more culturally diverse entity, only a few observers have noted the evolving social phenomenon of biracial children/adults. When they did so in the past -...