Journal of American Ethnic History articles from June 1995

Journal of American Ethnic History archives from June 1995

Out of the carnage and into the crucible: Southeast Asian refugees' journey from old worlds to a new one. (review essay)
June 22, 1995... Beyond the Killing Fields: Voices of Nine Cambodian Survivors in America. By Usha Welaratna. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1993; xxi + 285 pp. Map, illustrations, and bibliography. $40.00 (cloth); $29.95 (paper). Family Tightrope: The...

The Dynamics of Ethnic Competition and Conflict.
June 22, 1995... By Susan Olzak. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1992. ix + 271 pp. Tables, figures, appendices, notes and index. $32.50. These two excellent works are both in their different ways timely, if not likely to be controversial....

Ethnic Minorities and Industrial Change in Europe and North America.
June 22, 1995... Edited by Malcom Cross. Cambridge: At the University Press, 1992. xvii + 341 pp. Maps, figures, tables, references and index. $64.95. These two excellent works are both in their different ways timely, if not likely to be controversial. They...

First Generation: In the Words of Twentieth-Century American Immigrants.
June 22, 1995... (Revised Edition). By June Namias. Foreword by Robert Coles. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1992. xxiv + 278 pp. Illustrations, notes, and bibliography. $17.95. In this new edition of First Generation: In the Words of...

The New Chosen People: Immigrants in the United States.
June 22, 1995... By Guillermina Jasso and Mark Rosenzweig. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1990. 460 pp. $49.95. This book serves as the one of the last in a series supported by the Social Science Research Council and the Russell Sage Foundation to...

Changing New York City Politics.
June 22, 1995... By Asher Arian, Arthur S. Goldberg, John H. Mollenkope, and Edward T. Rogowsky. New York: Routledge, 1991. xiii + 247 pp. Maps, figures, tables, appendices, bibliography, and index. $14.95. If there is one fundamental fact about American...

New York at Mid-Century: The Impellitteri Years.
June 22, 1995... By Salvatore J. LaGumina. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1992. xii + 256 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $47.95. This book seeks to rehabilitate the memory of Vincent Impellitteri, the man who served for three rather...

To Be Mayor of New York: Ethnic Politics in the City.
June 22, 1995... By Chris McNickle. New York: Columbia University Press, 1993. xiv + 416 pp. Photographs, appendix, notes and index. $29.95. The racially polarized 1993 mayoral race was not one of New York City's finer hours. Trading barbs on television but...

Memories of Chicano History: The Life and Narrative of Bert Corona.
June 22, 1995... By Mario Garcia. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1994. xviii + 369 pp. Photographs, notes and index. $30.00. If the criterion for a good oral history is the selection of a good protagonist, University of California...

The Hispano Homeland.
June 22, 1995... By Richard L. Nostrand. Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992. xvi + 281 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, appendix, notes, bibliography, and index. $29.95. In The Hispano Homeland, Richard L. Nostrand posits that an...

Leaving England: Essays on British Emigration in the Nineteenth Century.
June 22, 1995... By Charlotte Erickson. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press. 1994. xv + 272 pp. Index. $38.50. This is a welcome collection of seven essays, five of them previously published between 1960 and 1990. The volume takes up themes the...

Irish Illegals: Transients Between Two Societies.
June 22, 1995... By Mary P. Corcoran. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1993. xvii + 224 pp. Index. $49.95. The stagnation of the Irish economy in the 1980s reduced opportunities for young, single, ambitious Irish who were frustrated by the lack of...

A Dutch Family in the Middle Colonies: 1600-1800.
June 22, 1995... By Firth Haring Fabend. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1991. xviii + 326 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, appendices, notes, bibliography, and index. $49.00. Fabend's objective in this study is to take her readers in...

Island: Poetry and History of Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island: 1910-1940.
June 22, 1995... By Him Mark Lai, Genny Lim, and Judy Yung. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1991. 174 pp. Poems in Chinese and English. Photographs, notes, and Chinese/English bibliography. $14.95. Island, by Him Mark Lai, Genny Lim, and Judy Yung,...

Wounded Knee 1973, A Personal Account.
June 22, 1995... By Stanley David Lyman. Edited by Floyd A. O'Neil, June K. Lyman, and Susan McKay. Lincoln & London: University of Nebraska Press, 1991. 180 pp. Map, illustrations. $33.00 (cloth); $9.95 (paper). Diaries are meant to bare one's inner...

The Color Complex: The Politics of Skin Color Among African Americans.
June 22, 1995... By Kathy Russell, Midge Wilson, and Ronald Hall. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Publishers, 1992. 200 pp. Bibliography and index. $21.95. The two works, while addressing the conundrum of racism and racial categorization in the United...

Race and Mixed Race.
June 22, 1995... By Naoami Zack. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1993. xv + 215 pp. Notes, bibliography and index. $39.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper) The two works, while addressing the conundrum of racism and racial categorization in the United States,...

Creole New Orleans: Race and Americanization.
June 22, 1995... Edited by Arnold R. Hirsch and Joseph Logsdon. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1992. xiii + 334 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, notes, and index. $42.50 (cloth); $16.95 (paper). This superb collection of six original essays,...

Gender, schooling and teaching, and the Nisei in Hawai'i: an episode in American immigration history, 1900-1940.
June 22, 1995... DURING THE LATE nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, thousands of immigrants arrived in Hawai'i to work in the rapidly expanding sugar cane industry.(1) They came from all parts of the world, especially from Asia, and among the Asians the...

The Molly Maguires in popular culture. (Molly Maguire terrorist group)
June 22, 1995... IN THE 1860s and 1870s, the anthracite region of Pennsylvania drew national attention for its violence. After a series of assaults and assassinations, deep-rooted fears of a secret, Irish terrorist organization hardened into certainty. A total...

Interdisciplinary perspectives on rural immigration and ethnicity. (review essay)
June 22, 1995... To Build in a New Land: Ethnic Landscapes in North America. Edited by Allen G. Noble. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992. x + 455 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, glossary, bibliography, and index. $65.00 (cloth); 29.95...