Journal of American Ethnic History articles from June 1998

Journal of American Ethnic History archives from June 1998

Hardliners v. "dialogueros": Cuban exile political groups and United States-Cuba policy.
June 22, 1998... Throughout United States history various immigrant groups have tried to influence the politics of their countries of origin either by trying to shape United States foreign policy, or by recruiting men or money to aid political movements in...

From 'Acadien' to 'Cajun' to 'Cadien': ethnic labelization and construction of identity.
June 22, 1998... Observation of everyday life in Southwest Louisiana clearly attests to the existence of a French-based ethnic phenomenon: French is spoken, Cajun identity is claimed on signs and in publications, in-group solidarity is practiced in kin groups...

African Americans and the Mau Mau rebellion: militancy, violence, and the struggle for freedom.
June 22, 1998... Let me preface what I am going to say with this: I hate violence and injustice to any people, regardless of color or religion. I love peace, harmony and brotherhood so much that I don't even like the use of angry words. But what to do when...

The voices of Jewish immigrant mothers in the Yivo American Jewish autobiography collection.
June 22, 1998... Scholars writing on Jewish immigrant women have generally distinguished between the experiences of young unmarried women, often termed "daughters," and older married women, referred to as "mothers." For the most part, immigrant daughters have...

Ethnicity in Louisiana: Cajuns and free people of color.
June 22, 1998... Two books - one new, the other not so new but recently reissued in paperback - advance immeasurably our understanding of Louisiana's best known but often misunderstood ethnic peoples: the Acadian ancestors of today's Cajuns and the antebellum...

The Founding of New Acadia: The Beginnings of Acadian Life in Louisiana, 1765-1803.
June 22, 1998... By Carl A. Brasseaux. Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press, 1987. xv + 229 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, appendices, bibliography, and index. $12.95. Two books - one new, the other not so new but recently reissued in...

Revolution, Romanticism, and the Afro-Creole Protest Tradition in Louisiana: 1718-1868.
June 22, 1998... By Caryn Cosse Bell. Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press, 1997. xv + 325 pp. Maps, illustrations, appendices, bibliography, and index. $35.00. Two books - one new, the other not so new but recently reissued in paperback...

The radical novel reconsidered.
June 22, 1998... Sonya and Manning, tricked into matrimony, were the oriental and the Anglo-Saxon trying to find a common language. The overemotional Ghetto struggling for its breath in the thin air of puritan restraint. An East Side savage forced suddenly into...

Salome of the Tenements.
June 22, 1998... By Anzia Yezierska. Introduction by Gay Wilentz. Series Editor Alan Wald. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1996. xxvi + 184 pp. $14.95. Sonya and Manning, tricked into matrimony, were the oriental and the Anglo-Saxon trying...

To Make My Bread.
June 22, 1998... By Grace Lumpkin. Introduction by Suzanne Sowinska. Series Editor Alan Wald. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1995. xliii + 384 pp. $14.95. Sonya and Manning, tricked into matrimony, were the oriental and the Anglo-Saxon...

Moscow Yankee.
June 22, 1998... By Myra Page. Introduction by Barbara Foley. Series Editor Alan Wald. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1996. xxviii + 292 pp., incl. glossary of Russian terms. $14.95. Sonya and Manning, tricked into matrimony, were the...

The People from Heaven.
June 22, 1998... By John Sanford. Introduction by Alan Wald. Series Editor Alan Wald. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1996. xxxvi + 232 pp. $14.95. Sonya and Manning, tricked into matrimony, were the oriental and the Anglo-Saxon trying to...

Oral history, Japanese Americans, and World War II.
June 22, 1998... These two books demonstrate how oral history sources can enrich the historiography on Japanese Americans during World War II. Only in the last two decades have many Japanese Americans, especially former internees, been willing to share their...

Whispered Silences: Japanese Americans and World War II.
June 22, 1998... Essay by Gary Y. Okihiro. Photographs by Joan Myers. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 1996. 256 pp. Photographs, notes and bibliography. $60.00 (cloth), $29.95 (paper). These two books demonstrate how oral history sources...

"I Can Never Forget": Men of the 100th/442nd.
June 22, 1998... By Thelma Chang. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1996. First published Honolulu: SIGI Productions, 1991. 208 pp. Maps, photographs, illustrations, bibliography and index. $34.95. These two books demonstrate how oral history sources can...

The Oxford History of the American West.
June 22, 1998... Edited by Clyde A. Milner II, Carol A. O'Connor, and Martha A. Sandweiss. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. xiii + 872 pp. Maps, illustrations, color plates, tables, bibliographical notes, and index. $25.00 (paper). This superb...

Ethnic Los Angeles.
June 22, 1998... Edited by Roger Waldinger and Mehdi Bozorgmehr. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1996. xiv + 497 pp. Maps, illustrations, figures, tables, notes, appendix, and index. $45.00 (cloth), $24.95 (paper). Since the late 1960s, rapid-paced...

Working People of California.
June 22, 1998... Edited by Daniel Cornford. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995. x + 493 pp. Tables and notes. $18.00. Until quite recently, California has not been fertile ground for the "new" labor history. Daniel Cornford, editor of this...

Urban Odyssey: A Multicultural History of Washington, D.C.
June 22, 1998... Edited by Francine Curro Cary. Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1996. 320 pp. $34.95. When one thinks of multi-ethnic cities in the United States, Washington, D.C., does not come first to mind. The city's social and...

Steeples and Smokestacks. A Collection of Essays on the Franco-American Experience in New England.
June 22, 1998... Edited by Claire Quintal. Worcester, Massachusetts: Editions de l'Institut francais, 1996. 683 pp. Maps, tables, appendices, notes, and bibliographic essay. $24.95. This is a selection of essays that was first disseminated at the colloquia...

Immigrants Out! The New Nativism and the Anti-Immigrant Impulse in the United States.
June 22, 1998... Edited by Juan Perea. New York: New York: University Press, 1997.xvi + 342 pp. $19.95. When one picks up a book entitled Immigrants Out with the word "Out" highlighted in three-inch bold print followed by an equally large exclamation mark,...

"Be an American!" Amerikanisierungsbewegung und Theorien zur Einwandererintegration.
June 22, 1998... By Dietrich Herrmann. Frankfurt am Main and New York: Campus Verlag, 1996. 388 pp. Bibliography, index. DM 88. This well-written Free University of Berlin dissertation argues that the Americanization movement of the first two decades of the...

Puerto Rican Women and Work: Bridges in Transnational Labor.
June 22, 1998... Edited by Altagracia Ortiz. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1996. ix + 249 pp. Tables, notes, and index. $19.95. This exceptional volume examines how the evolving forces of colonialism and capitalism have contoured the economic,...

Caribbean Circuits: New Directions in the Study of Caribbean Migration.
June 22, 1998... Edited by Patricia R. Pessar. Staten Island: Center for Migration Studies, 1997.231 pp. Figures, tables, bibliography, and index. $19.95. Both books reviewed here are concerned with the increasingly complex processes involved in Caribbean...

Pilgrims in the Sun: West Indian Migration to America.
June 22, 1998... By Ransford W. Palmer. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1995. vii + 101 pp. Map, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. Both books reviewed here are concerned with the increasingly complex processes involved in Caribbean population movements....

Blood Relations: Caribbean Immigrants and the Harlem Community, 1900-1930.
June 22, 1998... By Irma Watkins-Owens. Bloomington and Indianapolis: University of Indiana Press, 1996. 238 pp. $39.95 (cloth); $17.50 (paper). During the first third of this century, 40,000 Afro-Caribbean immigrants settled in New York City, mostly in...

Fighting on Two Fronts: African Americans and the Vietnam War.
June 22, 1998... By James E. Westheider. New York: New York University Press, 1997. ix + 238 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, and index. $24.95. The Vietnam War, the first United States conflict fought with fully integrated troops, offered the hope of...

Black Valor: Buffalo Soldiers and the Medal of Honor, 1870-1898.
June 22, 1998... By Frank N. Schubert. Wilmington, Delaware: Scholarly Resources, Inc., 1997. ix + 231 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, and index. $22.95. The Vietnam War, the first United States conflict fought with fully integrated troops, offered...

Civil Rights and the Idea of Freedom.
June 22, 1998... By Richard H. King. Athens and London: The University of Georgia Press, 1996. xxii + 269 pp. Notes and index. $19.95. Richard H. King's Civil Rights and the Idea of Freedom is a fine piece of intellectual history. The depth of the author's...

America Reality and Dream: The Freeman Letters from America and Sweden, 1841-1862.
June 22, 1998... Edited by Axel Friman, George M. Stephenson, and H. Arnold Barton. Rock Island, Illinois: The Augustana Historical Society, 1996. vii + 108 pp. Photographs, notes. $15.00. The history of the publication of this collection of letters,...

The Western Home: A Literary History of Norwegian America.
June 22, 1998... By Orm Overland. Northfield, Minnesota: The Norwegian American Historical Association, 1996. xiv + 442 pp. Illustrations, notes and index. $44.95. In The Western Home, Orm Overland, professor of American literature at the University of...

People in Transit: German Migrations in Comparative Perspective, 1820-1930.
June 22, 1998... Edited by Dirk Hoerder and Jorg Nagler. Cambridge: At the University Press, German Historical Institute, 1995. xi + 433 pp. Index. $79.95. "My bridegroom, shepherd Krentzke, emigrated to North America last year and has sent me a letter asking...

Frisians to America, 1880-1914: With the Baggage of the Fatherland.
June 22, 1998... By Annemieke Galema. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1997. 358 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, notes, appendices, index. $29.95. At the beginning of her study, Galema outlines the factors behind the Frisian emigration to the United...

The Polish Peasant in Europe and America: A Classic Work in Immigration History.
June 22, 1998... By William I. Thomas and Florian Znaniecki. Edited by Eli Zaretsky. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1996. xvii + 127 pp. $13.95. The newest iteration of the pioneering sociological work on the turn-of-the-century Polish...

Tokyo Life, New York Dreams: Urban Japanese Visions of America, 1890-1924.
June 22, 1998... By Mitziko Sawada. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1996. xviii+ 268 pp. Illustrations, tables, appendices, notes, bibliography and index. $40.00. Accounts of Japanese immigration to the United States usually focus...

Picture Brides: Japanese Women in Canada.
June 22, 1998... By Tomoko Makabe. North York, Ontario, Canada: Multicultural History Society of Ontario, 1995. viii + 182 pp. Illustrations and bibliography. $24.95. Accounts of Japanese immigration to the United States usually focus on those who settled in...

From Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia: A Refugee Experience in the United States.
June 22, 1998... By Jeremy Hein. Twayne's Immigrants of America Series. New York: Twayne Publications, 1995. xii+195 pp. Maps, tables, appendices, chronology, bibliographic essay and index. $26.95. In this book Jeremy Hein attempts to analyse the dynamics of...

Old Wisdom in the New World: Americanization in Two Immigrant Theravada Buddhist Temples.
June 22, 1998... By Paul David Numrich. Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press, 1996. xxiv + 181 pp. Illustrations, diagrams, tables, notes, bibliography and index. $22.50. This book breaks new ground in a number of ways. Most previous studies of the...

Jewish Immigrant Associations and American Identity: 1880-1939.
June 22, 1998... By Daniel Soyer. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1997. 291 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, and index. $39.95. Paradoxically, the only place on the historical canvas where eastern European Jewry appears collectively is in...

Against All Odds: Holocaust Survivors and the Successful Lives They Made in America, 2d ed.
June 22, 1998... By William Helmreich. 2nd ed. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Transaction Publishers, 1996. 348 pp. Methodological note, source notes, and index. $21.95. In the decade that immediately followed the Second World War, approximately 140,000 Jews...

People of the Book: Thirty Scholars Reflect on Their Jewish Identity.
June 22, 1998... Edited by Jeffrey Rubin-Dorsky and Shelley Fisher Fishkin. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1996. x+507 pp. $45.00 (cloth); $22,95 (paper). This lively collection of essays by leading Jewish scholars provides a framework and a...

Censoring Irish Nationalism: The British, Irish and American Suppression of Republican Images in Film and Television, 1905-1995.
June 22, 1998... By Louisa Burns-Bisogno. Jefferson, North Carolina, and London: McFarland & Company Inc., 1997. ix + 213 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $45.00. Louisa Burns-Bisogno argues that, starting in the early twentieth century, British, Irish,...

American Reform and Reformers. A Biographical Dictionary.
June 22, 1998... Edited by Randall M. Miller and Paul A. Cimbala. Westport, Connecticut, and London: Greenwood Press, 1996. xviii + 559 pp. Notes, bibliographies, and index. $115.00. American Reform and Reformers is a useful reference book. While its...

O Brave New People. The European Invention of the American Indian.
June 22, 1998... By John F. Moffit and Santiago Sebastian. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1996. xvi + 336 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography and index. $55.00. These two volumes, which examine European and American "inventions" or...

Dressing in Feathers: The Construction of the Indian in American Popular Culture.
June 22, 1998... Edited by S. Elizabeth Bird. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1996. xi +284 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography and index. $73.00 (cloth); $19.50 (paper). These two volumes, which examine European and American "inventions" or...