Journal of American Ethnic History articles from June 1997

Journal of American Ethnic History archives from June 1997

The immigrant letter between positivism and populism: the uses of immigrant personal correspondence in twentieth-century American scholarship.
June 22, 1997... To justify leaving home, to establish migration chains and teach those about to join them about the experience of emigration, to ask for or to provide economic resources, to attain intimacy, and to maintain emotional bonds, immigrants before the...

Internationalizing "the American dilemma": the Civil Rights Congress and the 1951 Genocide Petition to the United Nations.
June 22, 1997... In the years immediately following World War II, race relations in the United States began to undergo significant change. During the presidency of Harry S. Truman, the federal government belatedly acknowledged its responsibility in the area of...

Between alienation and ethnicity: the evolution of Mexican-American Catholicism in San Antonio, 1910-1940.
June 22, 1997... Catholicism continues to be a vital part of the lives of Mexican Americans, yet its evolution has only recently been traced in specific communities. San Antonio, the hub of Catholic Texas since its founding as a frontier town in the early...

My Music is My Flag: Puerto Rican Musicians and Their New York Communities.
June 22, 1997... JAEH readers well know that over the last generation social history has grown in popularity in the study of American history and culture, aiming at a better understanding of ordinary citizens and their role in our national development. Hence the...

Barrio Rhythm: Mexican American Music in Los Angeles.
June 22, 1997... JAEH readers well know that over the last generation social history has grown in popularity in the study of American history and culture, aiming at a better understanding of ordinary citizens and their role in our national development. Hence the...

Northward Bound: The Mexican Immigrant Experience in Ballad and Song.
June 22, 1997... JAEH readers well know that over the last generation social history has grown in popularity in the study of American history and culture, aiming at a better understanding of ordinary citizens and their role in our national development. Hence the...

Three views of popular music in Hispanic America.
June 22, 1997... JAEH readers well know that over the last generation social history has grown in popularity in the study of American history and culture, aiming at a better understanding of ordinary citizens and their role in our national development. Hence the...

Native American and European encounters in North America.
June 22, 1997... For the past several years, and particularly in response to the Columbus quincentenary that witnessed intense debate on whether he was the "discoverer" or the "destroyer" of America, recent studies have been published that provide new insights on...

Warpaths: Invasions of North America.
June 22, 1997... For the past several years, and particularly in response to the Columbus quincentenary that witnessed intense debate on whether he was the "discoverer" or the "destroyer" of America, recent studies have been published that provide new insights on...

Powhatan Foreign Relations: 1500-1722.
June 22, 1997... For the past several years, and particularly in response to the Columbus quincentenary that witnessed intense debate on whether he was the "discoverer" or the "destroyer" of America, recent studies have been published that provide new insights on...

Native Land: Mississippi, 1540-1798.
June 22, 1997... For the past several years, and particularly in response to the Columbus quincentenary that witnessed intense debate on whether he was the "discoverer" or the "destroyer" of America, recent studies have been published that provide new insights on...

Threatened Peoples, Threatened Borders: World Migration and U.S. Policy.
June 22, 1997... This edited volume was commissioned by the American Assembly at Columbia University to provide information and make policy recommendations in the area of international migration and United States foreign policy. The eleven contributors were drawn...

And Still They Come: Immigrants and American Society, 1920-1990s.
June 22, 1997... In And Still They Come: Immigrants and American Society, 1920-1990s, Elliott Barkan, professor of history and ethnic studies at California State University, San Bernardino, continues the story begun in a previous volume in Harlan Davidson's...

The Coming of Arabic-Speaking People to the United States.
June 22, 1997... In The Coming of the Arabic-Speaking People to the United States, Adele Younis deftly describes how the American Protestant missionaries in Syria at the turn of the century spurred Syrian immigration to the United States. Younis unravels the...

Between Justice and Beauty: Race, Planning, and the Failure of Urban Policy in Washington, D.C.
June 22, 1997... This book traces the story of federal control in Washington, D.C.'s urban development. It is the story of a conflict between creating an aesthetically pleasing international city and making the urban environment a just place, of providing social...

Caught in the Middle: Korean Communities in New York and Los Angeles.
June 22, 1997... Caught in the Middle: Korean Communities in New York and Los Angeles offers both empirical and analytical contributions to the growing literature on Korean-American entrepreneurship and inter-(ethnic)group conflict. The attribution of Korean...

Asian Americans and Congress: A Documentary History.
June 22, 1997... Listening to the immigrant-bashing in the 104th Congress and the nativist fear-mongering on the 1996 presidential campaign trail, one is reminded of Hegel's famous words from his "Philosophy of History," written over 160 years ago: "What...

The New York Irish.
June 22, 1997... During the last fifteen years or so we have seen a considerable number of books on the Irish in Eastern, Mid-western and Western cities as well as in rural communities. All the more remarkable by its absence has been a comprehensive history of...

Swedish Exodus.
June 22, 1997... Nineteen ninety-six was the 150th anniversary of the beginning of the great Scandinavian migration to North America; in 1846 Erik Jansson and four hundred of his followers fled religious persecution in Sweden to begin their experiment in communal...

Scandinavian Immigrants and Education in North America.
June 22, 1997... Nineteen ninety-six was the 150th anniversary of the beginning of the great Scandinavian migration to North America; in 1846 Erik Jansson and four hundred of his followers fled religious persecution in Sweden to begin their experiment in communal...

The Civil War Diary of Clara Solomon: Growing Up in New Orleans, 1861-1862.
June 22, 1997... This volume records the daily activities and private thoughts of a lively, articulate young Jewish woman during a short but eventful period of the Civil War, from 15 June 1861 to 11 July 1862. Like many other adolescent girls in the past, Clara...