Journal of American Ethnic History articles from June 1994

Journal of American Ethnic History archives from June 1994

The comparative method and poststructural structuralism - new perspectives for migration studies.
June 22, 1994... "I WAS CONSTANTLY referring my new world to the old for comparison, and the old to the new for elucidation. I became a student and philosopher by force of circumstances."(1) Mary Antin, a young Russian Jewish girl who arrived in Boston at the...

The cultural changes of Polish-American parochial schools in Milwaukee, 1866-1988.
June 22, 1994... Milwaukee's Polonia--Toward an Institutional Completeness(1) OVER THE YEARS the Polish-American community in Milwaukee (Milwaukee's Polonia) became the second largest ethnic group in the city, after the Germans.(2) The first Polish...

A Century of European Migrations: 1830-1930.
June 22, 1994... Edited by Rudolph J. Vecoli and Suzanne M. Sinke. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, Statute of Liberty-Ellis Island Centennial Series, 1991. 395 pp. Maps, tables, and index. $44.95. British historian Frank Thistlethwaite has not published...

A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America.
June 22, 1994... By Ronald Takaki. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1993. ix + 508 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. $27.95, (cloth); $12.75, (paper). With this book, Ronald Takaki takes on a sweeping task: nothing less than what he describes as a...

From 'Melting Pot' to Multiculturalism: The Evolution of Ethnic Relations in the United States and Canada.
June 22, 1994... Edited by Valeria Gennaro Lerda. Rome: Bulzoni Editore, 1990. xi + 283 pp. Notes. Like other collections from conferences, this one is a mixed bag, but a valuable one for historians of immigration and ethnicity. The conference in question...

Shoulder to Shoulder: Polish Americans in Rochester, New York, 1890-1990.
June 22, 1994... By Kathleen Urbanic. Rochester: Monroe Reprographics, Inc., 1991. xvii + 259 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, bibliography and index. $17.00. This is a carefully constructed narrative history of an important Polish community. Urbanic utilizes...

From Workshop to Office: Two Generations of Italian Women in New York City, 1900-1950.
June 22, 1994... By Miriam Cohen. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1992. 231 pp. Illustrations, tables, bibliography, and index. $39.95 (cloth); $14.95 (paper). In this study of two generations of Italian working women in New York City, Miriam...

La Storia: Five Centuries of the Italian American Experience.
June 22, 1994... By Jerre Mangione and Ben Morreale. New York. Harper Collins Publishers. 1992. xx + 508 pp. Illustrations, bibliography and index. $30.00. La Storia is a very important contribution to the Italian American storia (the word means both "story"...

Sacco and Vanzetti: The Anarchist Background.
June 22, 1994... By Paul Avrich. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991. x +265 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography and index. $24.95. Most of the historians who dealt with the Italian anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti focussed on the...

The Spirit of 1848: German Immigrants, Labor Conflict, and the Coming of the Civil War.
June 22, 1994... By Bruce Levine. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1992. xiv + 378 pp. Map, tables, appendices, notes, selected bibliography, and index. $34.95. In this ambitious book, Bruce Levine locates himself within what he deems an...

Bridging Three Worlds: Hungarian-Jewish Americans, 1848-1914.
June 22, 1994... By Robert Perlman. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1991. xii + 302 pp. Maps, tables, appendices, notes, bibliography and index. $39.95. Between 1848 and 1914 more than 100,000 Hungarian Jews, approximately 5 percent of the...

Promises to Keep: African-Americans and the Constitutional Order, 1776 to the Present.
June 22, 1994... By Donald G. Nieman. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. xiii + 227 pp. Notes, bibliographic essay and index. $29.95, (cloth); $9.95, (paper). This book is part of a series celebrating the Bicentennial of the Bill of Rights, sponsored...

Caribbean New York: Black Immigrants and the Politics of Race.
June 22, 1994... By Philip Kasinitz. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1992. xv + 281 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $42.95, (cloth); $13.95, (paper). Considering the growing recent literature on the topic of...

Gender, Class, Race, and Reform in the Progressive Era.
June 22, 1994... Edited by Noralee Frankel and Nancy S. Dye, Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1991. vi + 202 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $24.00. The essays in this book were originally presented at a conference on Women in the Progressive...

North Pole Legacy: Black, White and Eskimo.
June 22, 1994... By S. Allen Counter. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1991. xiii + 222 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, and glossary. $24.95. This warm, gracious and uplifting book deserves to be read by anyone interested in exploration and...

The Slum and the Ghetto: Immigrants, Blacks, and Reformers in Chicago, 1880-1930.
June 22, 1994... By Thomas Lee Philpott. Belmont, California: Wadsworth Publishing Co, 1991 [1978]. xxiv + 437 pp. Maps, tables, appendices, notes and index. This is a book for which we have waited too long. First published in 1978 by Oxford University...

Swedish Life in American Cities.
June 22, 1994... Edited by Dag Blanck and Harald Runblom. Uppsala, Sweden: Centre for Multiethnic Research, 1991. Uppsala Multiethnic Papers 21. 131 pp. Map, illustrations, tables, notes. Swedish Life in American Cities extends an already distinguished...

Rockford Swedes: American Stories.
June 22, 1994... East Moline, Illinois: American Friends of the Emigrant Institute of Sweden, 1993. vi + 372 pp. Photographs. $25.00. This engaging compilation portrays the lives of fifteen immigrants and nine children of immigrants from Sweden to Rockford,...

A Passion for Polka: Old-Time Ethnic Music in America.
June 22, 1994... By Victor Greene. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992. xi + 355 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliographic essay and index. $28.00. Among historians, music has generally fallen on tin ears. Even those who focus on cultural...

The Creation of Jazz: Music, Race, and Culture in Urban America.
June 22, 1994... By Burton W. Peretti. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1992. xii + 277 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes and index. $29.95. Among historians, music has generally fallen on tin ears. Even those who focus on cultural artifacts have made...

Rise of the Mexican American Middle Class: San Antonio, 1929-1941.
June 22, 1994... By Richard A. Garcia. College Station: Texas A&M Press, 1991. ix + 398 pp. Bibliographical references and index. $39.50. Richard A. Garcia's carefully documented case study of the Mexican-American community in San Antonio is an important...

Speaking of Diversity: Language and Ethnicity in Twentieth-Century America.
June 22, 1994... By Philip Gleason. Baltimore, Maryland: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992. xiii + 314 pp. Notes, bibliography and index. $40.00. This is a history of ideas pertaining to ethnicity in America, written by an outstanding historian and...

Voices from Southeast Asia: The Refugee Experience in the United States.
June 22, 1994... By John Tenhula. New York: Holmes and Meier Publishers, Inc., 1991. xix 247 pp. Map, photographs, appendices (including historical essay, tables, chronology), and references. $29.95. Voices from Southeast Asia is an outstanding oral history...

The Asian American Movement.
June 22, 1994... By William Wei. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1993. xvi + 355 pp. Photographs, notes, and index. $34.95. Celebrated as the "model minority," Asian Americans often are depicted as non-militant individuals who conform to the...

Incident at Bitter Creek: The Story of the Rock Springs Chinese Massacre.
June 22, 1994... By Craig Storti. Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1991. 193 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $21.95. The Rock Springs Chinese Massacre on 2 September 1885, which ignited anti-Chinese riots across the Western states, is...

Western Apache Heritage: People of the Mountain Corridor.
June 22, 1994... By Richard J. Perry. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1992. xiii + 298 pp. Maps, photographs, notes, bibliography, and index. $37.50, (cloth); $17.95, (paper). In view of the extensive ethnographic literature about southwestern cultures,...

The Dispossession of the American Indians: 1887-1934.
June 22, 1994... By Janet A. McDonnell. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1991. x + 164 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, selected bibliography, and index. $20.00. Ethnohistory is a burgeoning field, stimulated by the empowerment of minority groups'...

Disputed Waters: Native Americans and the Great Lakes Fishery.
June 22, 1994... By Robert Doherty. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1990. viii + 172 pp. Map, notes, and index. $24.00. Ethnohistory is a burgeoning field, stimulated by the empowerment of minority groups' representatives in educational...

The Governance of Ethnic Communities: Political Structures and Processes in Canada.
June 22, 1994... By Raymond Breton. (Contributions in Ethnic Studies, No. 26. New York: Greenwood Press, 1991. 208 pp. Tables, references and index. $45.00. Raymond Breton's work in ethnic studies always deserves attention. From his early article on...

Immigration to New York.
June 22, 1994... Edited by William Pencak, Selma Berrol, and Randall M. Miller. Philadelphia: Balch Institute Press, 1991. xiv + 254 pp. Tables, notes, and index. $35.00. The Statue of Liberty's 1986 centenary cast its light on studies of immigration in...

Grandmothers, Mothers, and Daughters: Oral Histories of Three Generations of Ethnic Women.
June 22, 1994... By Corinne Azen Krause. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1991. xiv + 231 pp. Map, photographs, notes, bibliography, and index. $24.95. A new ethnic generation is coming of age--a fourth generation: the great-grandchildren of immigrants who were...

Ethnic Options: Choosing Identities in America.
June 22, 1994... By Mary C. Waters. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990. 197 pp. Tables, appendices, bibliography, and index. $11.95. Few would argue that the 1980s witnessed the resurgence of race as a major political and socioeconomic force in...

Rethinking Today's Minorities.
June 22, 1994... Edited by Vincent N. Parillo. Contributions in Sociology, Number 93. New York: Greenwood Press, 1991. 209 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $42.95. Few would argue that the 1980s witnessed the resurgence of race as a major...

The Nature and Context of Minority Discourse.
June 22, 1994... Edited by Abdul R. JanMohamed and David Lloyd. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990. 472 pp. Notes. $35.00, (cloth); $14.95, (paper). Few would argue that the 1980s witnessed the resurgence of race as a major political and socioeconomic...

A Life Among the Texas Flora: Ferdinand Lindheimer's Letters to George Engelmann.
June 22, 1994... By Minetta Altgelt Goyne. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1991. xvi + 236 pp. Illustrations, notes, select bibliography and index. $44.50. Given the penchant for focusing on every detail of life in nineteenth century Texas, it...