Journal of American Ethnic History articles from January 1999

Journal of American Ethnic History archives from January 1999

Them Dark Days: Slavery in the American Rice Swamps.(Review)
January 1, 1999... By William Dusinberre. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. xiv + 556 pp. Appendices, notes, and index. $55.00. American slavery is once again a hot topic. Aside from the three volumes under review, at least eight books and four...

Discovering the Women in Slavery: Emancipating Perspectives on the American Past.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Edited by Patricia Morton. Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 1996. x + 320 pp. Introduction, notes, selected bibliography, and index. $40.00 (cloth); $20.00 (paper). American slavery is once again a hot topic. Aside from the three...

Southern Slavery and the Law: 1619-1860.(Review)
January 1, 1999... By Thomas D. Morris. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1996. x + 575 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $49.95. American slavery is once again a hot topic. Aside from the three volumes under review, at least eight...

A New Significance: Re-envisioning the History of the American West.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Edited by Clyde A. Milner II. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. xiii + 318 pp. Illustrations, notes and index. $49.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper). In the last ten years the meaning of the American West has been actively contested....

Building and Breaking Families in the American West.(Review)
January 1, 1999... By Glenda Riley. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1996. 216 pp. Illustrations, notes and index. $35.00 (cloth); $17.95 (paper). In the last ten years the meaning of the American West has been actively contested. Consequently,...

Rachel Calof's Story: Jewish Homesteader on the Northern Plains.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Edited by J. Sanford Rikoon. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995. xiii + 153 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. $20.00 (cloth); $12.95 (paper). Early in the twentieth century scholars organized discussions of the American West...

Tante Johanne: Letters of a Danish Immigrant Family, 1887-1910.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Edited by John W. Nielsen. Blair, Nebraska: Lur Publications and Danish Immigrant Archive. 1996. xiv + 118 pp. Maps, illustrations, bibliography, and index. $12.95. Early in the twentieth century scholars organized discussions of the...

"And Prairie Dogs Weren't Kosher": Jewish Women in the Upper Midwest Since 1855.(Review)
January 1, 1999... By Linda Mack Schloff. St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press. 1996. x + 243 pp. Map, illustrations, and index. $29.95 (cloth); $14.95 (paper). Early in the twentieth century scholars organized discussions of the American West...

Telling Identities: The Californio Testimonios.(Review)
January 1, 1999... By Rosaura Sanchez. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1995. xiv + 337 pp. Notes, testimonial references, and index. $19.95. Both works under review provide new insights into the lost world of the Californios, the...

The History of Alta California: A Memoir of Mexican California.(Review)
January 1, 1999... By Antonio Maria Osio. Translated, edited, and annotated by Rose Marie Beebe and Robert M. Senkewicz. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1996. xii + 388 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, biographical sketches, glossary, bibliography, and...

Refugees in America in the 1990s: A Reference Handbook.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Edited by David W. Haines. Westport, Connecticut Greenwood Press, 1996. 480 pp. Tables, notes, and index. $79.50. In the preface to this work, editor David W. Haines writes that the original purpose of the volume was to update the...

Reluctant Host: Canada's Response to Immigrant Workers, 1896-1994.(Review)
January 1, 1999... By Donald H. Avery. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1995. 342 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, and index. $24.95 (paper). During the past century, Canada has been one of the world's major immigrant and refugee receiving countries. Indeed,...

Culture and Democracy in the United States.(Review)
January 1, 1999... By Horace M. Kallen, with a new introduction by Stephen J. Whitfield. New Brunswick and London: Transaction Publishers, 1998. xix + 339 pp. $29.95. Considering the multitude of works already reprinted in the field of...

Building Little Italy: Philadelphia's Italians Before Mass Migration.(Review)
January 1, 1999... By Richard N. Juliani. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998. xxi + 383 pp. Maps, photographs, tables, appendix, essay on sources, and index. $50.00 (cloth); $19.95 (paper). In Building Little Italy, Richard...

Beyond "The Godfather": Italian American Writers on the Real Italian American Experience.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Edited by A. Kenneth Ciongoli and Jay Parini. Hanover and London: University Press of New England, 1997. vii + 320 pp. $26.00. Writing in the New York Times Book Review some time ago, Gay Talese asked: "Where are the Italian American...

The Irish Catholic Diaspora in America.(Review)
January 1, 1999... By Lawrence J. McCaffrey. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 1998. 253 pp. $24.95. This is an immensely readable book which charts the experiences of Irish Catholics in America. Acknowledging his critics and in...

Staging the Jew: The Performance of an American Ethnicity, 1860-1920.(Review)
January 1, 1999... By Harley Erdman. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1997. xiv + 221 pp. Illustrations, appendices, notes, select bibliography, and index. $50.00 (cloth); $19.95 (paper). Staging the Jew provides a fascinating example of...

Rethinking American Indian History.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Edited by Donald L. Fixico. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1997. x + 139 pp. Notes, bibliographic notes, and index $35.00 (cloth); $16.95(paper). Donald Fixico's collection of essays presents the central issues in...

Inequality by Design: Cracking the Myth of the Bell Curve.(Review)
January 1, 1999... By Claude A. Fischer, Michael Hout, Martin Sanchez Jankowski, Samuel R. Lucas, Ann Swidler, and Kim Vose. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1996. xii + 216 pp. Appendices, references, and index. $35.00 (cloth); $14.95 (paper). ...

Homicide, Race, and Justice in the American West: 1880-1920.(Review)
January 1, 1999... By Clare V. McKanna, Jr. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 1997. xiv + 206 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, notes, and index. $40.00. Homicide, Race, and Justice is a cliometric account of homicides from three diverse Western...

African American in Pennsylvania: Shifting Historical Perspectives.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Edited by Joe William Trotter and Eric Ledell Smith. Harrisburg: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, and University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997 (jointly published). xv + 519 pp. Notes, index. $45.00 (cloth);...

The New African-American Urban History.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Edited by Kenneth Goings and Raymond A. Mohl. Thousand Oaks, California: Sage Publications, 1996. ii + 381 pp. Maps, photos, illustrations, tables, footnotes, and index. $54.00 (cloth); $25.95 (paper). Readers of the The New...

The Ironies of Affirmative Action: Politics, Culture, and Justice in America.(Review)
January 1, 1999... By John David Skrentny. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1996. 312 pp. Bibliographical references and index. $48.00 (cloth); $16.95 (paper). John David Skrentny, an assistant professor of sociology at the University...

We Won't Go Back: Making the Case for Affirmative Action.(Review)
January 1, 1999... By Charles R. Lawrence III and Marl J. Matsuda. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1997. 314 pp. Bibliographical references and index. $25.00. John David Skrentny, an assistant professor of sociology at the University of...

Neither Black Nor White Yet Both: Thematic Explorations of Interracial Literature.(Review)
January 1, 1999... By Werner Sollors. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. xvii + 574 pp. Illustrations, appendices, notes, bibliography, and index. $39.95. If there is a current hot topic in ethnic studies it is multiraciality. In 1997 the United...

The New Colored People: The Mixed-Race Movement in America.(Review)
January 1, 1999... By Jon Michael Spencer. New York: New York University Press, 1997. xvi + 214 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $24.95. If there is a current hot topic in ethnic studies it is multiraciality. In 1997 the United States Office of...

The Coming White Minority: California's Eruptions and America's Future.(Review)
January 1, 1999... By Dale Maharidge. New York: Times Books, 1996. 331 pp. $25.00. "Can't we all get along?" The question asked by Rodney King in the heat of the 1992 Los Angeles riots remains urgent today as California moves inevitably toward a...

Critical White Studies: Looking Behind the Mirror.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Edited by Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1997. xviii + 680 pp. Suggested readings and index. $59.95 (cloth); $29.95 (paper). Scholars addressing the problem of race have traditionally directed...

Unconquerable Rebel: Robert W. Wilcox and Hawaiian Politics, 1880-1903.(Review)
January 1, 1999... By Ernest Andrade, Jr. Niwot, Colorado: University Press of Colorado, 1996. 299 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $34.95. In 1993 the city of Honolulu dedicated a small urban park and a statue to the memory of...

Japanese Americans: The Formation and Transformations of an Ethnic Group.(Review)
January 1, 1999... By Paul R. Spickard. New York: Twayne, 1996. xvi + 223 pp. Figures, illustrations, tables, appendices, notes, bibliographic essay, and index. $28.95 (cloth); $16.95 (paper). With the publication of this work by University of California,...

Growing Up American: How Vietnamese Children Adapt to Life in the United States.(Review)
January 1, 1999... By Min Zhou and Carl L. Bankston III. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1998, xii +241 pp. Figures, tables, notes, references, and index. $34.95. Zhou and Bankston take on one of the most vexing and controversial issues in contemporary...

The Chinaman's Chance: The Chinese on the Rocky Mountain Mining Frontier.(Review)
January 1, 1999... By Liping Zhu. Niwot, Colorado: University Press of Colorado, 1997. xi + 231 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $27.50. In the second half of the nineteenth century, Idaho had the largest Chinese population...

The Colony that Rose from the Sea: Norwegian Maritime Migration and Community in Brooklyn, 1850-1910.(Review)
January 1, 1999... By David C. Mauk. Northfield, Minnesota: The Norwegian-American Historical Association, distributed by The University of Illinois Press, 1997. xvi + 272 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, appendices, notes, and index. $44.95. This...

Studies on Greek Americans.(Review)
January 1, 1999... By George A. Kourvetaris. East European Monographs. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997. x + 282 pp. Tables, graphs, notes, and references. $42.00. In the preface of his book, the author explains that it represents "a wide spectrum...

"South of the South?": Jews, Blacks, and the civil rights movement in Miami, 1945-1960.
January 1, 1999... It was 15 April 1959. When the activists from Miami CORE - two Jews and two blacks - entered the Woolworth store on Flagler Street in downtown Miami, the lunch counter was nearly full. CORE workers Shirley Zoloth and Alice Barr took the first...

Chinese and the campaign to abolish capital punishment in Massachusetts, 1870-1914.
January 1, 1999... During the early 1900s, a group of Massachusetts activists were on the verge of achieving their goal to eliminate capital punishment. But two high-profile murder trials in which Chinese immigrants were accused of gangland-style slayings...

Transnational Chinese families and Chinese exclusion, 1875-1943.
January 1, 1999... The low proportions of women and families among Chinese residing in the United States before the 1960s are commonly explained in recent historical scholarship as a direct consequence of obstacles set up by the Chinese Exclusion laws. One...

The variable institution.(books on slavery in US history)
January 1, 1999... American slavery is once again a hot topic. Aside from the three volumes under review, at least eight books and four edited collections on the subject have appeared during 1995 and the early months of 1996. Unlike the now-classic studies of...

(Still) searching for the new west.
January 1, 1999... In the last ten years the meaning of the American West has been actively contested. Consequently, its meaning, and that in the life of the nation, has been profoundly changed. No longer is the region the domain of white men moving across...

Multiple images: immigrant women in the West.
January 1, 1999... Early in the twentieth century scholars organized discussions of the American West around somewhat limited definitions. With its early emphasis on pioneers and migrants, especially as seen through a male lens, western history appeared to be...

Looking backward: the Californios tell their own story.
January 1, 1999... Both works under review provide new insights into the lost world of the Californios, the Spanish-speaking residents of Alta California during its days as a province of the empire of Spain and the republic of Mexico. Rosaura Sanchez...