Journal of American Ethnic History articles from January 1998

Journal of American Ethnic History archives from January 1998

I don't do windows: gender roles in international perspective, a turn-of-the-century Dutch example.
January 1, 1998... If a historian set out to find an immigrant group in which men and women had similar experiences of migration, then that historian might easily choose the turn-of-the-century Protestant Dutch. As one of the most family-oriented groups in terms of...

Fighting for a new life: social and patriotic activism of Chinese American women in New York City, 1900 to 1945.
January 1, 1998... The first Chinese female immigrant in New York City arrived in 1879.(1) A New York Times reporter tried but failed to obtain her name due to the reluctance of the Chinese American community to share that information. The only historical record...

White nativism and urban politics: the 1920s Ku Klux Klan in Oakland, California.
January 1, 1998... On 5 May 1922, a horde of 1,500 men in white robes and masks gathered in silence at night in a valley in the hills above Oakland, California. Two searchlights beamed across the sky, as a fiery cross burned behind an altar draped with the American...

Perspectives on American Jewry.
January 1, 1998... The three books under review offer differing perspectives on the American Jewish experience. The Jews of Chicago and Insecure Prosperity delineate the history of Jewish communities in a large and a small urban setting. Jews and the New American...

The Jews of Chicago: From Shtetl to Suburb.
January 1, 1998... The three books under review offer differing perspectives on the American Jewish experience. The Jews of Chicago and Insecure Prosperity delineate the history of Jewish communities in a large and a small urban setting. Jews and the New American...

Insecure Prosperity: Small Town Jews in Industrial America, 1890-1940.
January 1, 1998... The three books under review offer differing perspectives on the American Jewish experience. The Jews of Chicago and Insecure Prosperity delineate the history of Jewish communities in a large and a small urban setting. Jews and the New American...

Jews and the New American Scene.
January 1, 1998... The three books under review offer differing perspectives on the American Jewish experience. The Jews of Chicago and Insecure Prosperity delineate the history of Jewish communities in a large and a small urban setting. Jews and the New American...

The work that never ends: new literature on paid domestic work and women of color.
January 1, 1998... In a historiographic landscape thickly populated by specialized community studies, the comparative study of race and ethnicity has remained relatively open territory. The very proliferation of specialized studies has made the task of integrating...

Maid in the U.S.A.
January 1, 1998... In a historiographic landscape thickly populated by specialized community studies, the comparative study of race and ethnicity has remained relatively open territory. The very proliferation of specialized studies has made the task of integrating...

Across the Boundaries of Race and Class: An Exploration of Work and Family Among Black Female Domestic Servants.
January 1, 1998... In a historiographic landscape thickly populated by specialized community studies, the comparative study of race and ethnicity has remained relatively open territory. The very proliferation of specialized studies has made the task of integrating...

Gendered Transitions: Mexican Experiences of Immigration.
January 1, 1998... In a historiographic landscape thickly populated by specialized community studies, the comparative study of race and ethnicity has remained relatively open territory. The very proliferation of specialized studies has made the task of integrating...

Living in, Living Out: African-American Domestics in Washington, D.C., 1900-1940.
January 1, 1998... In a historiographic landscape thickly populated by specialized community studies, the comparative study of race and ethnicity has remained relatively open territory. The very proliferation of specialized studies has made the task of integrating...

Indian lives and history.
January 1, 1998... Scholarship about Native Americans continues to move in several directions at the same time, and these three books illustrate that fact. They include essays on women in tribal affairs across four centuries, a detailed autobiography of a...

Negotiators of Change: Historical Perspectives on Native American Women.
January 1, 1998... Scholarship about Native Americans continues to move in several directions at the same time, and these three books illustrate that fact. They include essays on women in tribal affairs across four centuries, a detailed autobiography of a...

An Indian in White America.
January 1, 1998... Scholarship about Native Americans continues to move in several directions at the same time, and these three books illustrate that fact. They include essays on women in tribal affairs across four centuries, a detailed autobiography of a...

To Be an Indian: An Oral History.
January 1, 1998... Scholarship about Native Americans continues to move in several directions at the same time, and these three books illustrate that fact. They include essays on women in tribal affairs across four centuries, a detailed autobiography of a...

Global History and Migrations.
January 1, 1998... The study of migrations is a productive way to approach global and world history. People in all parts of the world have moved since the beginnings of human life on earth and especially so during the past 500 years. Why and how they moved, how far...

All the Nations Under Heaven: An Ethnic and Racial History of New York City.
January 1, 1998... Frederick M. Binder and David M. Reimers have written a synthesis worthy of New York's ethnic and racial history. At a time when anti-immigrant sentiment is on the rise from California to Washington, D.C., it is a welcome reminder of who...

Morning Glory, Evening Shadow: Yamato Ichihashi and His Internment Writings, 1942-1945.
January 1, 1998... "It ought to be the doll festival day, today, and this is the flower festival month; it sounds all very gay. The people in California have beautiful flowers, hyacinth, tulips, irises and many other flowers in their gardens, and pretty soon...

The Golden Mountain: The Autobiography of a Korean Immigrant, 1895-1960.
January 1, 1998... In the last two to three years there have appeared a number of new publication describing the diaspora of Koreans in the United States. Some of the recent ones are: Native Speaker, by Chang-Rae Lee (1996); East to America, by Elaine Kim and Eui...

A Folk Divided: Homeland Swedes and Swedish Americans, 1840-1940.
January 1, 1998... H. Arnold Barton has spent a lifetime as a professional historian studying Sweden and Swedish-America. In this volume, he looks in both directions, examining attitudes in Sweden toward Swedish Americans and attitudes among Swedish Americans...

Polish Americans and Their History: Community, Culture, and Politics.
January 1, 1998... This collection of eight original essays assesses scholarship on Polish immigrants and Polish-American life. The contributors include historians from North America and Poland. Published to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the Polish...

Jewish Farmers of the Catskills: A Century of Survival.
January 1, 1998... Jewish Farmers in the Catskills provides additional insights into the evolving history of American Jewish farmers. With the exception of the failed communal experiments at the turn of the century, Jewish farmers and their communities have been...

In the Almost Promised Land: American Jews and Blacks, 1915-1935.
January 1, 1998... In 1977 Hasia Diner published the pathbreaking study of the relationship between African Americans and American Jews in the years between 1915 and 1935. Her book, In the Almost Promised Land, was significant for a number of reasons. It was one of...

Parish Boundaries: The Catholic Encounter with Race in the Twentieth-Century Urban North.
January 1, 1998... This is a splendid book. It is particularly successful in connecting Catholic history with larger movements in American society. After finishing it, readers are apt to think they always knew that Catholics played a pivotal role in the way race...

Racialised Barriers: The Black Experience in the United States and England in the 1980s.
January 1, 1998... Racialised Barriers presents a well-organized comparison of the experiences of black peoples in the United States and England in the 1980s. This outstanding book outlines a methodological model for cross-national work and critically addresses...

Haitian Immigrants in Black America: A Sociological and Sociolinguistic Portrait.
January 1, 1998... For decades the Haitian experience in the United States has called out for scholarly treatment. Flore Zephir's Haitian Immigrants in Black America, a well-done study that skillfully blends history, sociology, and anthropological linguistics,...

Women of Color in U.S. Society.
January 1, 1998... The contributors to Women of Color apply emancipatory social theory to the life experiences of American black, Asian, Hispanic, and Indian women. In the foreword, Patricia Hill Collins cautions feminists against gender essentialism, both as a...

Workfare or Fair Work: Women, Welfare, and Government Work Programs.
January 1, 1998... In this encyclopedic account, Nancy Rose unravels in systematic detail the maze of policies requiring work as a condition of welfare benefits (workfare) and federal job programs (fair work), from the Depression to the present. She advocates...

Writing the Range: Race, Class, and Culture in the Women's West.
January 1, 1998... Long in the making but well worth the wait, this collection brings together twenty-nine essays about women of varied racial, ethnic, and social class backgrounds who lived in the American West. The articles, which begin with early Native...

Border Visions: Mexican Cultures of the Southwest United States.
January 1, 1998... In this ambitious work, anthropologist Carlos Velez-Ibanez attempts, in a methodology that he calls ethnobiography, to trace both the history of his family and the history of the Spanish borderlands of the United States from the pre-Columbian...

"America for the Americans": The Nativist Movement in the United States.
January 1, 1998... Dale Knobel's "America for the Americans" covers much the same ground of Tyler Anbinder's excellent Nativism and Slavery and John Higham's classic Strangers in the Land. Knobel begins with the American Revolution and ends with the restrictions of...

Poverty and Place: Ghettos, Barrios, and the American City.
January 1, 1998... Poverty and Place is an important book that sets out new work on the nature and causes of urban poverty. In a nutshell, Jargowsky argues that changes in poverty are closely intertwined with macro economic processes. When cities are doing well and...

Pluralism and Inequality in Quebec.
January 1, 1998... While virtually all contemporary nation states are culturally plural, many have come to a realization of their situation with hesitation, and with fear for their future. Case studies of how societies come to grips with their pluralism, and...

Beyond the Mafia, Italian Americans and the Development of Las Vegas.
January 1, 1998... The subject matter of this short book (134 pages of text) is the contribution made by Italian Americans to the growth of Las Vegas since its establishment in 1905. More specifically, the author wants to record the little-known story of Italian...

Strangers and Sojourners: A History of Michigan's Keweenaw Peninsula.
January 1, 1998... Students of Michigan's Keweenaw Peninsula will welcome this detailed narrative of the region's history. Arthur W. Thurner, professor emeritus from Depaul University, describes the rise and fall of the copper industry in this small corner of...

California's Immigrant Children: Theory, Research and Implications for Education Policy.
January 1, 1998... This book is based on a workshop organized by multidisciplinary scholars working under the auspices of the Center for United States-Mexican Studies at the University of California at San Diego. The essays address the problems faced by the...