Journal of American Ethnic History articles from January 1 2001

Journal of American Ethnic History archives from January 1 2001

The Performance of Jewish Ethnicity in Anne Nichols' Abie's Irish Rose.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2001... WHAT HUMORIST H. L. Mencken in the 1920s called "America's third-largest industry" [1] was a Broadway play about Jewish-Irish inter marriage called Abie's Irish Rose which ran for 2,327 performances, opening on 23 May 1922 at the Fulton...

Blacks, Jews and the Struggle to Integrate Brooklyn's Junior High School 258: A Cold War Story.
January 1, 2001... IF YOU MENTION BROOKLYN, schools, blacks and Jews in one breath, the image that surfaces in the minds of many is the 1968 struggle for community control in the Ocean Hill-Brownsville school district. [1] Like many highly publicized events, the...

"More Than Ever, We Feel Proud to Be Italians": World War I and the New Haven Colonia, 1917-1918.
January 1, 2001... ON THE EVE of America's entry into the First World War in March 1917, a young man from New Haven was arrested on charges of espionage. The police of Bristol, Connecticut linked Leopoldo Cobianchi to several pieces of incriminating evidence. In...

THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING HARLEM: THE RENAISSANCE AND THE POLITICS OF MODERNISM.(Review)
January 1, 2001... New Negro, Old Left: African-American Writing and Communism Between the Wars. By William J. Maxwell. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999. xi + 254 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $49.50 (cloth); $17.50 (paper). ...

CITY, SOUL, AND THE NEW IMMIGRATION.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Gods of the City: Religion and the American Urban Landscape. Edited by Robert A. Orsi. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1999. xi + 402 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, and index. $39.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper). ...

Unwelcome Strangers: American Identity and the Turn Against Immigration.(Review)
January 1, 2001... By David M. Reimers. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999. 218 pp. $27.50 (cloth); $17.50 (paper). This book documents the basic arguments articulated by contemporary advocates of a more restrictive immigration policy in the United...

The Handbook of International Migration: The American Experience.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Edited by Charles Hirshman, Philip Kasinitz, and Josh DeWind. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1999. xiv + 502 pp. $65.00. The Handbook of International Migration is a product of the conference "Becoming American/America Becoming:...

U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Laws and Issues: A Documentary History.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Edited by Michael LeMay and Elliott Robert Barkan. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1999. xlvi + 336 pp. Glossary, bibliography, and index. $49.95. The United States Immigration and Naturalization Service has consistently argued...

Legal U.S. Immigration: Influences on Gender, Age, and Skill Composition.(Review)
January 1, 2001... By Michael J. Greenwood and John M. McDowell. Kalamazoo, Michigan: W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 1999. xii + 295 pp. Figures, tables, notes, references, and index. $21.00. This publication by two well-known economists, each...

Multilingual America: Transnationalism, Ethnicity, and the Languages of American Literature.
January 1, 2001... Edited by Werner Sollors. New York and London, New York University Press, 1998, ix + 409 pp. Notes and index. $65.00 (cloth); $25.00 (paper). Large-scale immigration to the United States from Asian and Latin American countries has...

Diversity and Its Discontents: Cultural Conflict and Common Ground in Contemporary American Society.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Edited by Neil J. Smelser and Jeffrey C. Alexander. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1999. viii + 320 pp. Tables, notes, and index. $55.00 (cloth); $18.95 (paper). Is United States society disintegrating? Have our...

Immigrants in the Lands of Promise: Italians in Buenos Aires and New York City 1870-1914.(Review)
January 1, 2001... By Samuel L. Baily. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1999. xvii + 308 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, appendix, notes, bibliography, and index. $45.00. The Italian immigrants to the Americas used utopian terms to describe what...

The Israel Connection and American Jews.(Review)
January 1, 2001... By David Mittelberg. Westport, Connecticut: Praeger Publishers, 1999. xvii + 192 pp. Tables, bibliography and index. $55.00. The object of David Mittleberg's study is, first, to systematically analyze the anecdotal and subjective...

Britain to America: Mid-Nineteenth-Century Immigrants to the United States.(Review)
January 1, 2001... By William E. Van Vugt. Champagne: University of Illinois Press, 1999. xi + 241 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, appendices, notes, bibliography and index. $49.95 (cloth); $18.95 (paper). This is a very welcome book both for its quality and...

The Crusade for Justice: Chicano Militancy and the Government's War on Dissent.(Review)
January 1, 2001... By Ernesto B. Vigil. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1999. xii + 487 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. $60.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper). The brutal and suspicious deaths of Eddie Romero in the summer of 1962 and Alfred Salazar in...

Viva Kennedy: Mexican Americans in Search of Camelot.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Ignacio M. Garcia. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2000. xi + 227 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. $29.95. In 1960, Mexican American votes may have won John Kennedy the presidency. Their importance was the result of a close...

The Dominican Americans.(Review)
January 1, 2001... By Silvio Torres-Saillant and Ramona Hernandez. The New Americans Series. Series Editor, Ronald H. Bayor. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1998. xxi + 184 pp. Illustrations, tables, bibliography and index. $39.95. Persons from the...

The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction.(Review)
January 1, 2001... By Linda Gordon. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1999. xii + 318 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, and index. $29.95. Exposure has dual meanings that encompass the essence of Linda Gordon's book. The first denotes...

Holding Aloft the Banner of Ethiopia: Caribbean Radicalism in Early Twentieth Century America.(Review)
January 1, 2001... By Winston James. New York: Verso, 1998. x + 406 pp. Maps, illustrations, appendices, notes, bibliography, and index. $22.00. During the first three decades of the twentieth century, the United States witnessed the establishment of several...

The Filipino Americans.(Review)
January 1, 2001... By Barbara Posadas. The New Americans Series. Series Editor, Ronald H. Bayor. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1999. xvi + 190 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, appendices, glossary, notes, and index. $39.95. The people known to the...

Arabs in America: Building a New Future.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Edited by Michael W. Suleiman. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1999. xii + 355 pp. Bibliographical references and index. $69.50 (cloth); $29.95 (paper). Even a moderate familiarity with immigrants from Arabic-speaking nations...

The Franco-Americans of New England: A History.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Armand Chartier. Manchester, New Hampshire and Worcester, Maine: ACA Assurance and Institute Francais of Assumption College, 1999. vii + 537 pp. Illustrations, appendices, bibliography, and index. n.p. The Franco-Americans of New England is...

La Gente: Hispanic History and Life in Colorado.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Vincent C. de Baca. Denver: Colorado Historical Society, 1999. x + 294 pp. Map, illustrations, tables, appendices, notes, bibliography and index. $21.95. Vicente C. de Baca's collection of historical essays covers the history of...

Portraits of Basques in the New World.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Richard W. Etulain Jeronima Echeverria. Reno & Las Vegas: University of Nevada Press, 1999. xvi + 305 pp. Illustrations, appendix, notes, selected readings, contributor information and index. $31.95. Historians Etulain and Echeverria have...

Home Away from Home: A History of Basque Boardinghouses.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Jeronima Echeverria. Reno & Las Vegas: University of Nevada Press, 1999. xv + 359 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, notes, glossary, bibliography and index. $44.95. I have had the pleasure of hearing Dr. Echeverria lecture on this topic,...

Stories Grandma Never Told: Portuguese Women in California.(Review)
January 1, 2001... By Sue Fagalde Lick. Berkeley, California: Heyday Books, 1998. 256 pp. $17.50. Stories Grandma Never Told is the intriguing title of Sue Fagalde Lick's book about Portuguese women in California. After reading this book, one is left with...

Tribes, Treaties, and Constitutional Tribulations.(Review)
January 1, 2001... By Vine Deloria Jr. and David E. Wilkins. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1999. xi + 209 pp. Notes, bibliography and index. $30.00 (cloth); $16.95 (paper). The sophistries through which the federal judiciary has attempted over the years...

Indian Reservations in the United States.(Review)
January 1, 2001... By Klaus Franz. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1999. xxvi + 370 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, figures, bibliography, and index. $25.00. Indian Reservations in the United States presents a geographer's view of Native America....

The Making of Milwaukee.(Review)
January 1, 2001... By John Gurda. Milwaukee: Milwaukee County Historical Society, 1999. ix + 458 pp. Maps, bibliography, and index. $24.95. Milwaukee residents often describe their metropolis as a highly "livable" city where they enjoy competent government,...