Journal of American Ethnic History articles from January 2000

Journal of American Ethnic History archives from January 2000

Jewish College Fraternities in the United States, 1895--1968: An Overview.
January 1, 2000... IN CONFRONTING THE novel theme of Jewish college fraternities and sororities, which may at first glance seem a somewhat more light-hearted topic than is usually found in the annals of Jewish historical investigation, one may be reminded of...

Family and Marriage of Late-Nineteenth and Early-Twentieth Century Chinese Immigrant Women.
January 1, 2000... This is terrible ghost country, where a hu- man being works her life away.... I have not stopped working since the day the ship landed.... In China I never even had to hang up my own clothes. I shouldn't have left, but ...

The Quest for American Kinship: Liberty, Ethnicity, and Ecumenism among Pennsylvania German Lutherans, 1817--1842.
January 1, 2000... "I AM PERSUADED," Pastor David F. Schaeffer (1787--1837) declared on 31 October 1817, that "were Christians more anxious to inform themselves as to past events, the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ would be more generally experienced,...

AMERICA'S EQUALITY PROMISE: WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?
January 1, 2000... America in Black and White: One Nation, Indivisible. By Stephan and Abigail Thernstrom. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997. 704 pp. Tables, notes, and index. $32.50. Late in the summer of 1937, Frederick P. Keppel, on behalf of the...

ETHNICITY AND THE POLITICAL STRUGGLE OF PUERTO RICANS IN THE UNITED STATES.
January 1, 2000... The Puerto Rican Movement: Voices from the Diaspora. Edited by Andres Torres and Jose E. Velazduez. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1998. xvi + 381 pp. Illustrations, notes and index. $24.95. Identity and Power: Puerto Rican...

Jews Against Prejudice: American Jews and the Fight for Civil Liberties.
January 1, 2000... Jews Against Prejudice: American Jews and the Fight for Civil Liberties. By Stuart Svonkin. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997. xi + 364 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $32.50. A People Divided: Judaism in Contemporary America....

The Journey Home: Jewish Women and the American Century.
January 1, 2000... The Journey Home: Jewish Women and the American Century. By Joyce Antler. New York: The Free Press, 1997. xviii + 410 pp. Photographs, bibliographic references, and index. $27.50 In The Journey Home, Joyce Antler tells vivid and moving...

From Immigrant to Ethnic Culture: American Yiddish in South Philadelphia.
January 1, 2000... From Immigrant to Ethnic Culture: American Yiddish in South Philadelphia. By Rakhmiel Peltz. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1997. xix + 269 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, appendices, bibliography, and index. $49.50...

Religion and State in the American Jewish Experience.
January 1, 2000... Religion and State in the American Jewish Experience. Edited by Jonathan D. Sarna and David G. Dalin. Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 1997. xiii + 331 pp. Notes, suggestions for further reading. $40.00. From their...

Middletown Jews: The Tenuous Survival of an American Jewish Community.
January 1, 2000... Middletown Jews: The Tenuous Survival of an American Jewish Community. Edited by Dan Rothenberg, with an Introduction by Dwight W. Hoover. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1997. 180 pp. Photos, bibliography. $14.95. ...

Judaism Since Gender.
January 1, 2000... Judaism Since Gender. Edited by Miriam Peskowitz and Laura Levitt. New York and London: Routledge, 1997. xii + 229 pp. Notes. $17.95. Judaism Since Gender contains very little history. The first part, "Knowledges," includes twenty very...

Opposite Poles: Immigrants and Ethnics in Polish Chicago.
January 1, 2000... Opposite Poles: Immigrants and Ethnics in Polish Chicago, 1976-1990. By Mary Patrice Erdmans. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998. xi + 267 pp. Tables, appendices, notes, bibliography, and index. $19.95. Not many...

Memento of Finland: A Musical Legacy.
January 1, 2000... Memento of Finland: A Musical Legacy. By Joyce E. Hakala. St. Paul, Minnesota: Pikebone Press, 1997. xviii + 437 pp. Maps, illustrations, musical transcriptions, appendices, glossary, notes, bibliography, and index. $28.00. In 1904 John...

Becoming Swedish-American: The Construction of an Ethnic Identity in the Augustana Synod, 1860-1917.
January 1, 2000... Becoming Swedish-American: The Construction of an Ethnic Identity in the Augustana Synod, 1860-1917. By Dag Blanck. Studia Historica Upsaliensia 182. Uppsala S: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 1997. 240 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, and...

Randolph Bourne and the Politics of Cultural Radicalism.
January 1, 2000... Randolph Bourne and the Politics of Cultural Radicalism. By Leslie J. Vaughan. Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 1997. xii + 266 pp. Notes, index and bibliography. $35.00. "If any man has a ghost," John Dos Passos wrote, "Bourne...

The White Scourge: Mexicans, Blacks, and Poor Whites in Texas Cotton Culture.
January 1, 2000... The White Scourge: Mexicans, Blacks, and Poor Whites in Texas Cotton Culture. By Neil Foley. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. xv + 326 pp. Maps, photos, tables, bibliography, and index. $29.95. Few academic books master a...

Latin Looks--Images of Latinas and Latinos in the U.S. Media.
January 1, 2000... Latin Looks--Images of Latinas and Latinos in the U.S. Media. Edited by Clara E. Rodriguez. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1997. viii + 288 p. Illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $69.00 (cloth); $22.00 (paper). ...

The Ethnic Quilt: Population Diversity in Southern California.
January 1, 2000... The Ethnic Quilt: Population Diversity in Southern California. By James P. Allen and Eugene Turner. Northridge, California: The Center for Geographical Studies, California State University, Northridge, 1997. 282 pp. Maps, figures, tables,...

Undocumented in L.A.: An Immigrant's Story.
January 1, 2000... Undocumented in L.A.: An Immigrant's Story. By Diane Walta Hart. Wilmington, Delaware: Scholarly Resources, 1997. xxix + 136 PP. $45.00 (cloth); $16.95 (paper). In light of the contradictory claims and emotionally charged nature of...

Race and Polities: Asian Americans, Latinos, and Whites in a Los Angeles Suburb.
January 1, 2000... Race and Polities: Asian Americans, Latinos, and Whites in a Los Angeles Suburb. By Leland T Saito. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998. Xiii + 250 PP. Tables, appendix, bibliography, and index. $49.95 (cloth); $21.95 (paper). ...

Reconstructing Chinatown: Ethnic Enclave, Global Change.
January 1, 2000... Reconstructing Chinatown: Ethnic Enclave, Global Change. By Jan Lin. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1998. xv + 248 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $19.95. Ever since sweeping changes in...

Forbidden Workers: illegal Chinese Immigrants and American Labor.
January 1, 2000... Forbidden Workers: illegal Chinese Immigrants and American Labor. By Peter Kwong. New York: The New Press, 1997. xi + 239 pp. Endnotes, bibliography, and index. $24.00. Peter Kwong's monograph is a hard-hitting expose of the smuggling of...

Sold American: The Story of Alaska Natives and Their Land, 1867-1959.
January 1, 2000... Sold American: The Story of Alaska Natives and Their Land, 1867-1959. By Donald Craig Mitchell. Hanover, New Hampshire: Dartmouth College/University Press of New England, 1997. xi + 476 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index....

American Indian Activism: Alcatraz to the Longest Walk.
January 1, 2000... American Indian Activism: Alcatraz to the Longest Walk. Edited by Troy Johnson, Joane Nagel and Duane Champagne. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1997. 297 pp. illustrations, notes, and index. $36.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper). This...

As We Are Now: Mixblood Essays on Race and Identity.
January 1, 2000... As We Are Now: Mixblood Essays on Race and Identity. Edited by William S. Penn. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. 255 pp. Notes. $16.95. Against the construct of Native Americans as romanticized, rapidly vanishing...

Making Race and Nation: A Comparison of South Africa, the United States, and Brazil.
January 1, 2000... Making Race and Nation: A Comparison of South Africa, the United States, and Brazil. By Anthony W. Marx. New York: Cambridge: 1998. xviii + 390 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $26.95. Anthony Marx has written a sweeping and...

Boston Confronts Jim Crow, 1890-1920.
January 1, 2000... Boston Confronts Jim Crow, 1890-1920. By Mark R. Schneider. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1997. xiii + 262 pp. Illustrations, notes, selected bibliography, and index. $42.50 (cloth); $16.95 (paper). The title of this solid...

The Roots of African-American Identity: Memory and History in Antebellum Free Communities.
January 1, 2000... The Roots of African-American Identity: Memory and History in Antebellum Free Communities. By Elizabeth Rauh Bethel. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997. xiii + 242 pp. Notes and index. $39.95. Again, Elizabeth Rauh Bethel has taken on the...

Bint Arab: Arab and Arab American Women in the United States.
January 1, 2000... Bint Arab: Arab and Arab American Women in the United States. By Evelyn Shakir. Westport, Connecticut: Praeger, 1997. x + 226 PP. Illustrations, appendices, notes, bibliography, and index. $22.95. Children of the Roojme: A Family's...

Gatherings in Diaspora: Religious Communities and the New Immigration.
January 1, 2000... Gatherings in Diaspora: Religious Communities and the New Immigration. Edited by R. Stephen Warner and Judith G. Wittner. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Temple University Press, 1998. 409 pp. Notes, references, and index. $59.95 (cloth); $24.95...