Journal of American Ethnic History articles from June 1996

Journal of American Ethnic History archives from June 1996

Ethnic identity among the Czechs and Moravians of Texas.
June 22, 1996... Though they have defined their identity in different ways, the Czechs and Moravians of Texas comprise a single ethnic community which up until the end of the Second World War was insular and largely self-contained.(1) The population of "Czech...

Unmasking the Ku Klux Klan: the Northern movement against the KKK, 1920-1925.
June 22, 1996... In recent years, a number of excellent studies including those by Robert Goldberg, William Jenkins, Leonard Moore and Kathleen Blee have been published that offer a major reinterpretation of the Northern Ku Klux Klan.(1) These historians have...

Mexican Americans and the Catholic Church: 1900-1965, vol. 1.
June 22, 1996... We are in the midst of a demographic and denominational revolution in this country, a revolution that will change both the face and the faith of the United States over the next fifteen years. Current rates of birth and migration indicate that...

Puerto Rican and Cuban Catholics in the U.S.:1900-1965, vol. 1.
June 22, 1996... We are in the midst of a demographic and denominational revolution in this country, a revolution that will change both the face and the faith of the United States over the next fifteen years. Current rates of birth and migration indicate that...

Hispanic Catholic Culture in the U.S.: Issues and Concerns, vol. 3.
June 22, 1996... We are in the midst of a demographic and denominational revolution in this country, a revolution that will change both the face and the faith of the United States over the next fifteen years. Current rates of birth and migration indicate that...

The Ordeal of the Longhouse: The Peoples of the Iroquois League in the Era of European Colonization.
June 22, 1996... Frequently, discussions of issues related to American ethnicity, racial matters, and immigration underutilize Native American experiences when analyzing the national story. Many reasons exist for this. The hundreds of Indian tribes with a...

A Country Between: The Upper Ohio Valley and its Peoples, 1724-1774.
June 22, 1996... Frequently, discussions of issues related to American ethnicity, racial matters, and immigration underutilize Native American experiences when analyzing the national story. Many reasons exist for this. The hundreds of Indian tribes with a...

The Dividing Paths: Cherokees and South Carolinians through the Era of Revolution.
June 22, 1996... Frequently, discussions of issues related to American ethnicity, racial matters, and immigration underutilize Native American experiences when analyzing the national story. Many reasons exist for this. The hundreds of Indian tribes with a...

The Founders of America: How Indians Discovered the Land, Pioneered in it, and Created Great Classical Civilizations; How They Were Plunged into a Dark Age by Invasion and Conquest; and How They are Reviving.
June 22, 1996... Frequently, discussions of issues related to American ethnicity, racial matters, and immigration underutilize Native American experiences when analyzing the national story. Many reasons exist for this. The hundreds of Indian tribes with a...

Anatomy of a Public Policy: The Reform of Contemporary Immigration Law.
June 22, 1996... Michael LeMay approaches passage and implementation of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (IRCA) essentially as an exercise in public policy analysis. Utilizing a conceptual framework described by James Anderson, LeMay structures...

U.S. Immigration Policy: Restoring Credibility.
June 22, 1996... U.S. Immigration Policy: Restoring Credibility is the 1994 Report to Congress of the U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform, headed by Barbara Jordan, with the commission staff under the executive director, Susan Martin. The distinguished panel...

Ethnic Chicago: A Multicultural Portrait.
June 22, 1996... This is the fourth edition of one of most durable series on ethnic groups in an American city. In keeping with its new subtitle, the collection has sixteen of the pieces on the impressive ethnic variety of the midwestern metropolis. Most of the...

Reshaping Ethnic and Racial Relations in Philadelphia: Immigrants in a Divided City.
June 22, 1996... This urban ethnography, part of a national study of ethnic relations funded by the Ford Foundation, examines interactions among whites, African Americans, Puerto Ricans, Koreans, and Poles in three Philadelphia neighborhoods in the late 1980s....

Race, Ethnicity, and Entrepreneurship in Urban America.
June 22, 1996... Many articles and several monographs focusing on immigrant and ethnic entrepreneurship have been published over the last two decades. However, almost all previous studies on this topic are case studies of a particular immigrant or ethnic group...

Newcomers in the Workplace: Immigrants and the Restructuring of the U.S. Economy.
June 22, 1996... The "new immigration" to the United States is now thirty years old, and while the newest Americans have rapidly found a place in the nation's labor market, they have arrived just when rapid shifts in corporate structure, technology, and plant...

Anarchist Voices: An Oral History of Anarchism in America.
June 22, 1996... With a half-dozen books on anarchism, including The Haymarket Tragedy (1984), Anarchist Portraits (1988) and Sacco and Vanzetti: The Anarchist Background (1991), Paul Avrich has established himself as the preeminent American historian of a...

Forging New Freedoms: Nativism, Education, and the Constitution, 1917-1927.
June 22, 1996... During World War I, zealous patriots suspected the loyalty of Lutherans and Roman Catholics who continued to use the German language in worship in their churches and instruction in their schools. Hostility to those judged by their language and...

The Caribbean Diaspora in Toronto: Learning to Live with Racism.
June 22, 1996... In 1967 Canada finally removed the last of a long list of racially based criteria used to restrict immigration into Canada. Prior to that date and, indeed, going back well before the turn of the century, race was a determining factor in...

Little Brazil: An Ethnography of Brazilian Immigrants in New York City.
June 22, 1996... Maxine Margolis has written an engaging book about Brazilian immigrants to New York, a silent minority. They are often confused with Hispanics, do not occupy well-known niches in the labor market, rarely own ethnic businesses, and are not...

The First Suburban Chinatown: The Remaking of Monterey Park, California.
June 22, 1996... What happens when a minority group, such as the Chinese, becomes the majority (in terms of both population and economic wealth) in an American city like Monterey Park, California? Will they be accepted by the white community that preceded them?...

New Visions: Diversity, Community, Power.
June 22, 1996... New Visions: Diversity, Community, Power is an anthology that attempts to understand diversity within the Asian American community and to broaden the scope of Asian American Studies. Papers for the anthology were selected from the Association...

Black Africans and Native Americans: Color, Race, and Caste in the Evolution of Red-Black Peoples.
June 22, 1996... Anthropologist Jack D. Forbes examines the relationship between Native Americans (that is, American Indians) and black Africans. Critical to this relationship, according to the author, is the unraveling of the meaning of racial terms such as...

Deciding to be Legal: A Maya Community in Houston.
June 22, 1996... This study of the small but growing Maya Indian population of Houston, Texas, aims to develop four themes: (1) how social networks have facilitated migration; (2) gender differences in immigrant experiences; (3) the complexity of issues...

Labor and Community: Mexican Citrus Worker Villages in a Southern California County, 1900-1950.
June 22, 1996... Gilbert Gonzalez has produced a solidly researched monograph on farm labor camps in northern Orange County in the first half of the twentieth century. Better written than his first book, Chicano Education in the Era of Segregation (1990), Labor...

Triumphs and Tragedys: A History of the Mexican People.
June 22, 1996... Writing a sweeping survey of the history of Mexico from pre-Columbian times to the present must be a difficult endeavor. You see, as anyone who has ever taught a course on the History of Mexico knows, the story of that country over a period of...

European Immigrant Women in the United States.
June 22, 1996... European Immigrant Women's editors and publisher have set forth standards for judging their biographical dictionary in the introduction: "there are some that we excluded, . . . because it was impossible to include them all"(p. xiii). Such a...

Danskere i midtvesten. Elk Horn-Kimballton bosoettelsen: 1870-1925.
June 22, 1996... During the century before World War I, more than 300,000 Danes emigrated to the United States, the majority departing between 1870 and 1895. In recent years several Danish scholars have turned their attention-to these emigrants, who represented...

A New Life: Danish Emigration to North America as Described by the Emigrants Themselves in Letters, 1842-1946.
June 22, 1996... During the century before World War I, more than 300,000 Danes emigrated to the United States, the majority departing between 1870 and 1895. In recent years several Danish scholars have turned their attention-to these emigrants, who represented...

Alternatives to Assimilation: The Response of Reform Judaism to American Culture, 1840-1950.
June 22, 1996... Jewish history has long been dominated by the study of ideas. Jewish historians have traditionally been preoccupied with examining intellectual and political movements and assessing the careers of prominent leaders. These two very different...

The Wonders of America: Reinventing Jewish Culture, 1880-1950.
June 22, 1996... Jewish history has long been dominated by the study of ideas. Jewish historians have traditionally been preoccupied with examining intellectual and political movements and assessing the careers of prominent leaders. These two very different...

Comrades and Chicken Ranchers: The Story of a California Jewish Community.
June 22, 1996... During the last decade, scholars of American Jewish history have begun to shed their urban blinders and study those who went back to the soil and fanned their adopted land. Kenneth Kann's Comrades and Chicken Ranchers is an excellent addition...