Journal of American Ethnic History articles from June 1999

Journal of American Ethnic History archives from June 1999

"The real Indians, who constitute the real tribe": class, ethnicity, and IRA politics on the Blackfeet Reservation.
June 22, 1999... Most of the older generation full bloods are not familiar with the ways of tribal government under constitution, bylaws and charters, either by custom or through ability to read English. . . . This way of tribal government is not of their...

New growth on old vines - the state of the field: the social history of immigration to and ethnicity in the United States.(Forum: immigration history - assessing the field.)
June 22, 1999... Perhaps in no other field of history is metaphor so widely used as in the history of immigration to and ethnicity in the United States. We cite immigrants' repeated invocations of America fever, of "gold mountain," of America as a land where...

Race, nation, and culture in recent immigration studies.(Forum: immigration history - assessing the field.)
June 22, 1999... In October 1997, five of the most significant retail clothing companies in the country, including Mervyn's, Montgomery Ward and Miller's Outpost, agreed to pay more than $3.3 million to 150 women who had been kept under slave-like conditions in...

Immigrants and immigration law: a state of the field assessment.(Forum: immigration history - assessing the field.)
June 22, 1999... In 1905, Edward Steiner, an early scholar of immigration, visited Ellis Island and witnessed an appalling sight. Immigrants had numbered tickets fastened to their caps and dresses. Legions of uniformed immigration officials mechanically...

Comment: we study the present to understand the past.(Forum: immigration history - assessing the field.)
June 22, 1999... At the 1998 AHA meeting in Seattle, several well attended sessions were devoted to a consideration of the state of scholarship in immigration history. While a variety of prognoses regarding the health of the patient were offered, provocative...

Comment: searching for perspectives: race, law, and the immigrant experience.
June 22, 1999... Several years ago, while doing research at the National Archives for a history of naturalization policy in the twentieth century, I realized that a key INS figure had been Edward Rudnick. As chief naturalization examiner, he had authored the...

Response.(to articles written by Rudolp J Vecoli; Donna Gabaccia; and Elliott Robert Barkan in this issue, pp. 115, 126, 136)
June 22, 1999... As these and other recently published articles on the state of the field have made clear, the time is ripe for a reassessment of immigration history. Changes in both immigration patterns to the United States and among the scholars who study...

Response.(to articles by George Sanchez; Rudolp J Vecoli; Donna Gabaccia; and Elliott Robert Barkan in this issue, pp 66, 115, 127; 136)
June 22, 1999... In written Chinese, I am told, "opportunity" and "crisis" are the same character. This fact conforms well to the essays and comments in this forum which as a group have expressed both a concern about a crisis in the field and an appreciation of...

Civil Rigths and Social Wrongs: Black-White Relations Since World War II.(Review)
June 22, 1999... Edited by John Higham. University Park, Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997. viii + 223 pp. Notes, list of contributors, and index. $28.50. Eleven score and three years ago, the United States embarked on a new...

America's equality promise: can you tell me where it's gone?
June 22, 1999... Civil Rights and Social Wrongs: Black-White Relations Since Worm War II. Edited by John Higham. University Park, Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997. viii + 223 pp. Notes, list of contributors, and index. $28.50. ...

The Shock of Arrival: Reflections on Postcolonial Experience.(Review)
June 22, 1999... By Meena Alexander. Boston: South End Press, 1996. vii + 223 pp. Text, notes, and index. $15.00. One of the tropes that captures the thrills, traumas, and tensions of our radically dislocating times is surely the sign of migrancy. The...

From the Outer World: Perspectives on People and Places, Manners and Customs in the United States, as Reported by Travelers from Asia, Africa, Australia, and Latin America.(Review)
June 22, 1999... Edited by Oscar Handlin and Lilian Handlin. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1997. 491 pp. Notes. $55.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper). One of the tropes that captures the thrills, traumas, and tensions of our radically...

New Immigrant Literatures in the United States: A Sourcebook to Our Multicultural Literary Heritage.(Review)
June 22, 1999... Edited by Alpana Sharma Knippling. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1996. xix + 386 pp. Selected bibliography and index. $75.00. One of the tropes that captures the thrills, traumas, and tensions of our radically dislocating times is...

Migrant "markings of sense and circumstance.".
June 22, 1999... One of the tropes that captures the thrills, traumas, and tensions of our radically dislocating times is surely the sign of migrancy. The semiotics and semantics of that term evoke complex theoretical debates and, perhaps, mark the beginnings...

The New American Reality: Who We Are, How We Got Here, Where We Are Going.(Review)
June 22, 1999... By Reynolds Farley. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1996. x + 385 pp. Maps, tables, figures, references, and index. $34.95. In an effort to offer a broad coverage of publications, this journal provides reviews of varying lengths,...

American Indians in World War I: At War and at Home.(Review)
June 22, 1999... By Thomas A. Britten. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1997. x + 254 pp. Notes, bibliography, illustrations and index. $34.95. Until now early twentieth century American Indian history was often ignored by scholars. Thomas A....

American Indian Sovereignty and the U.S. Supreme Court: The Masking of Justice.(Review)
June 22, 1999... By David E. Wilkins. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1997. xv + 403 pp. Tables, appendices, notes, glossary, references, and index. $40.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper). David E. Wilkins, a Lumbee Indian teaching political science and...

The Indians' New South: Cultural Change in the Colonial Southeast.(Review)
June 22, 1999... By James Axtell. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1997. xiv + 102 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. $22.95 (cloth); $9.95 (paper). Axtell's slim volume of Walter Lynwood Fleming lectures packages a lively and intelligent...

After King Philip's War: Presence and Persistence in Indian New England.(Review)
June 22, 1999... Edited by Colin G. Callaway. Hanover, New Hampshire: University Press of New England, 1997. vii + 268 pp. Maps, tables, notes and index. $19.95. Axtell's slim volume of Walter Lynwood Fleming lectures packages a lively and intelligent...

Chinatown No More: Taiwan Immigrants in Contemporary New York.(Review)
June 22, 1999... By Hsiang-shui Chen. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press. 1992. xi + 281 pp. Photos, references, and index. $42.50 (cloth); $16.95 (paper). Starting from the mid-nineteenth century, Chinese immigration to the United States, mainly...

The Taiwanese Americans.(Review)
June 22, 1999... By Franklin Ng. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. 1998. x + 163 pp. Maps, photos, appendices, tables, bibliography and index. $39.95. Starting from the mid-nineteenth century, Chinese immigration to the United States, mainly from...

A Part Yet Apart: South Asians in Asian America.(Review)
June 22, 1999... Edited by Lavina Dhingra Shankar and Rajini Srikanth. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1998. xv + 270 pp. $22.95. This is a curious book that seeks to explore, as the clever title indicates, the often times anomalous position of South...

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures.(Review)
June 22, 1999... By Anne Fadiman. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1997. ix +339 pp. Note on Hmong orthography, pronunciation, and quotations, notes on sources, bibliography and index. $24.00. This is a powerfully moving and tragic drama about a Hmong...

Nisei/Sansei: Shifting Japanese American Identities and Politics.(Review)
June 22, 1999... By Jere Takahashi. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Temple University Press, 1997. 256 pp. Tables, notes, and index. $34.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper). This insightful volume has evolved from a doctoral dissertation in sociology accepted at the...

A History of Hispanics in Southern Nevada.(Review)
June 22, 1999... By M. L. Miranda, Reno: University of Nevada Press, 1997. xvii + 249 pp. illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $29.95. First attempts should always be congratulated. Although its title suggests only southern Nevada, the contents of...

The Cuban Americans.(Review)
June 22, 1999... By Miguel Gonzalez-Pando. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1998. xv + 185 pp. Illustrations, appendices, notes, bibliography and index. $39.95. The Cuban Americans, by Miguel Gonzalez-Pando, joins a growing number of works about...

Norwegian Minds-American Dreams: Ethnic Activism Among Norwegian-American Intellectuals.(Review)
June 22, 1999... By Peter Thaler. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1998.163 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography. $32.50. Although the author employs an innovative mode of analysis, this slim study, which has the flavor of a reworked doctoral...

Tradition Transformed: The Jewish Experience in America.(Review)
June 22, 1999... By Gerald Sorin. Baltimore, Maryland: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997. xv + 254 pp. Bibliographical essay and index. $40.00 (cloth); $14.95 (paper). Over the past decade, a growing number of academic books have focused on Jews and...

A Modern Heretic and a Traditional Community: Mordecai Kaplan, Orthodoxy and American Judaism.(Review)
June 22, 1999... By Jeffrey S. Gurock and Jacob J. Schacter. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997. 220 pp. Notes and index. $49.95. Mordecai Kaplan (1881-1983), the founder of Reconstructionist Judaism, remains one of the primary personalities on the...

Children of Job: American Second-Generation Witnesses to the Holocaust.(Review)
June 22, 1999... By Alan L. Berger. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1997. ix + 241 pp. Notes and index. $59.50 (cloth); $19.95 (paper). This book explores creative work by American children of Holocaust survivors, or second-generation witnesses....

Aboriginal Slavery on the Northwest Coast of North America.(Review)
June 22, 1999... By Leland Donald. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997, xvi + 379 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, appendices, notes, references and index. $40.00. Slavery has long been a topic of interest as well as discussion and some...

From Africa to America: African American History from the Colonial Era to the Early Republic, 1526 - 1790.(Review)
June 22, 1999... By William D. Piersen. New York: Twayne, 1996. xxv + 177 pp. Maps, tables, notes, chronology, bibliographical essay, and index. $26.95. Piersen's book is among a number of recent publications that redress an imbalance in African American...

For Faith and Fortune: The Education of Catholic Immigrants in Detroit, 1805-1925.(Review)
June 22, 1999... By JoEllen McNergney Vinyard. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998. xviii + 310 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, and index. $18.95 (paper). Detroit is the first and largest city in the United States with a Catholic origin. Vinyard,...

Retelling U.S. Religious History.(Review)
June 22, 1999... Edited by Thomas A. Tweed. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. xii + 302 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $40.00 (cloth); $13.95 (paper). Not too many years ago, the social and political history of North America was...

Now Hiring: The Feminization of Work in the United States, 1900-1995.(Review)
June 22, 1999... By Julia Kirk Blackwelder. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1997. xv + 308 pp. Photographs, tables, bibliography, notes, and index. $39.95 (cloth); $17.95 (paper). In Now Hiring, Julia Kirk Blackwelder presents an engaging...

The Miners of Windber: The Struggles of New Immigrants for Unionization, 1890s-1930s.(Review)
June 22, 1999... By Mildred Allen Beik. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1996. xxx + 447 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, appendices, notes, bibliography, and index. $60.00 (cloth), $22.95 (paper). This is a work of love; Mildred...

The Future Once Happened Here: New York, D.C., L.A., and the Fate of America's Big Cities.(Review)
June 22, 1999... By Fred Siegel. New York: The Free Press, 1997. xii + 260 pp. Index. $24.00. Fred Siegel, a professor of history at the Cooper Union for the Arts and Sciences and a senior fellow at the Progressive Policy Institute, is a native New Yorker...

The Making of Urban America, revised 2d ed.(Review)
June 22, 1999... Edited by Raymond A. Mohl. 2nd ed., revised. Wilmington, Delaware: Scholarly Resources Inc., 1997. ix-x + 388 pp. Tables, notes, bibliographic essay and index. $40.00 (cloth); $15.95 (paper). Among the guest chapters in The Making of Urban...

Comment: ins and outs: who is an immigration historian?(Forum: immigration history - assessing the field.)
June 22, 1999... When Immigration History Society (I.H.S.) Program Committee Chair Betty Bergland asked Jon Gjerde, Erika Lee, and George Sanchez to prepare these papers, she presciently anticipated the professional context in which they would be read. All...