Journal of American Ethnic History articles from June 2000

Journal of American Ethnic History archives from June 2000

Epistolary Ethics: Personal Correspondence and the Culture of Emigration in the Nineteenth Century.
June 22, 2000... AFTER MANY DECADES of presenting historians with a perplexing combination of analytical opportunities and interpretive problems that almost succeeded in creating a stalemate in our ability to make systematic use of it, the immigrant letter is...

Cajun-French Language Maintenance and Shift: A Southwest Louisiana Case Study to 1970.
June 22, 2000... LOUISIANA WAS FOUNDED as a French colony at the end of the seventeenth century and by the Louisiana Purchase of 1803, the southern portion of the present-day state was decidedly Francophone. [1] The subsequent Louisiana French experience was...

Jim Crow Among Strangers: The Growth of Baltimore's Little Italy and Maryland's Disfranchisement Campaigns.
June 22, 2000... TWICE WITHIN THE first decade of the twentieth century African Americans nearly lost the right to vote in Maryland. In statewide elections in 1905 and 1909, the Maryland ballot included proposed state constitutional amendments that would have...

ACTIVISM AND CHANGE IN MEXICAN AMERICAN COMMUNITIES.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Eastside Landmark: A History of the East Los Angeles Community Union 1968-1993. By John R. Chavez. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998. vii + 321 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, references, and index. $45.00. Mexican American Women...

NEW DIRECTIONS IN THE STUDY OF SLAVERY.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Masters, Slaves, and Subjects: The Culture of Power in the South Carolina Low Country, 1740-1790. By Robert Olwell. Ithaca, New York and London: Cornell University Press. 1999. xiv+294 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, and index. $49.95...

Race, Ethnicity, and Nationality in the United States: Toward the Twenty-First Century.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Race, Ethnicity, and Nationality in the United States: Toward the Twenty-First Century. Edited by Paul Wong. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press. 1999. 336 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, and index, $24.00. The 1990s saw numerous court...

Making Americans, Remaking America. Immigration and Immigrant Policy.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Making Americans, Remaking America. Immigration and Immigrant Policy. By Louis DeSipio and Rodolfo O. de la Garza. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1998. xii+156 pp. Illustrations, tables, study questions, glossary, references, and index....

Atlas of American Diversity.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Atlas of American Diversity. By Larry Hajime Shinagawa and Michael Jang. Walnut Creek, California: Altamira Press, 1998. 166 pp. Maps, illustrations, readings, and index. $48.00. The Atlas of American Diversity is an ambitious attempt to...

A Larger Memory: A History of Our Diversity, with Voices.(Review)
June 22, 2000... A Larger Memory: A History of Our Diversity, with Voices. By Ronald Takaki. Boston: Little, Brown and company, 1998. x + 371 pp. Notes and bibliography. $15.00. In A Larger Memory, Ronald Takaki continues his estimable chronicle of...

Mexicanos: A History of Mexicans in the United States.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Mexicanos: A History of Mexicans in the United States. By Manuel G. Gonzales. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1999. ix + 323 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography and index. $29.95. It does not surprise...

Crosscurrents: West Indian Immigrants and Race.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Crosscurrents: West Indian Immigrants and Race. By Milton Vickerman. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. xi + 211 pp. Tables, notes, references and index. $19.95. Crosscurrents: West Indian Immigrants and Race offers a compelling...

Diasporic Citizenship: Haitian Americans in Transnational America.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Diasporic Citizenship: Haitian Americans in Transnational America. By Michel S. Laguerre. New York: St. Martin Press, 1998. vii + 222 pp. Tables, bibliography, notes, and index. $19.95. Lately, researchers have been theorizing on the...

Latinas and African American Women at Work: Race, Gender, and Economic Inequality.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Latinas and African American Women at Work: Race, Gender, and Economic Inequality. Edited by Irene Browne. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1999. x + 441 pp. Graphs, tables, bibliography, and index. $39.95. Irene Browne brings together...

Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America. By Ira Berlin. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1998. xii + 497 PP. Maps, illustrations, tables, notes and index. $29.95. Nearly twenty years...

Black Entrepreneurs in America: Stories of Struggle and Success.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Black Entrepreneurs in America: Stories of Struggle and Success. By Michael D. Woodward. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1998. x+254 pp. $26.95 (cloth); $18.00 (paper). In seven, well-written chapters Michael Woodward...

The History of Black Business in America: Capitalism, Race, Entrepreneurship.(Review)
June 22, 2000... The History of Black Business in America: Capitalism, Race, Entrepreneurship. By Juliet E. K. Walker. New York: Twayne Publishers/Simon & Schuster Macmillan, 1998. xxvi + 485 pp. Tables, notes, and index. $45.00. This book's jacket...

Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race. By Matthew Frye Jacobson. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1998, x + 338 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. $29.95. Matthew Frye Jacobson...

Struggle for Ethnic Identity--Narratives by Asian American Professionals.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Struggle for Ethnic Identity--Narratives by Asian American Professionals. Edited by Pyong Gap Min and Rose Kim. Walnut Creek, California: AltaMira Press, 1998. 240 Pp. Notes and bibliography. $24.95. The rapid growth of the Asian...

Khmer American: Identity and Moral Education in a Diasporic Community.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Khmer American: Identity and Moral Education in a Diasporic Community. By Nancy 3. Smith-Hefner. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. Xvi + 237. Illustrations and index. $19.95. Evaluating the findings of this book on...

The Korean Americans.(Review)
June 22, 2000... The Korean Americans. By Won Moo Hurh. The New Americans Series, Series Editor, Ronald H. Bayor. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1998. xiv + 190 PP. Map, photos, tables and figure, appendix, and further readings, references, index....

Insider/Outsider: American Jews and Multiculturalism.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Insider/Outsider: American Jews and Multiculturalism. Edited by David Biale, Michael Galchinsky and Susannah Heschel. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. vi + 280 pp. Notes and index. $45.00 (cloth); $16.95 (paper). The heart...

Urban Exodus: Why the Jews Left Boston and the Catholics Stayed.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Urban Exodus: Why the Jews Left Boston and the Catholics Stayed. By Gerald Gamm. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1999. x+ 384 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, notes, acknowledgements, and index. $39.95. Deeply...

Sports and the American Jew.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Sports and the American Jew. Edited by Steven A. Riess. Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press, 1998. xvi + 337 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, works cited, and index. $49.95 (cloth); $24.95 (paper). This volume is an anthology...

Worcester Is America: The Story of Worcester's Armenians--The Early Years.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Worcester Is America: The Story of Worcester's Armenians--The Early Years. By Hagop Martin Deranian. Worcester, Massachusetts: Bennate Publishing, 1998. xvii + 217 pp. Maps, photographs, appendices, endnotes, bibliography and index. ...

The Cousins' Wars: Religion, Politics, and The Triumph of Anglo-America.(Review)
June 22, 2000... The Cousins' Wars: Religion, Politics, and The Triumph of Anglo-America. By Kevin Phillips. New York: Basic Books, 1999. xxviii + 707 pp. Maps, tables, appendices, notes, bibliography, and index. $32.50. Kevin Phillips is best known as...

Cutting Into the Meatpacking Line: Workers and Change in the Rural Midwest.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Cutting Into the Meatpacking Line: Workers and Change in the Rural Midwest. By Deborah Fink. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. xv + 235 pp. Map, illustrations, tables, notes, and index. $45.00 (cloth); $17.95 (paper). ...

Marketing the American Creed Abroad: Diasporas in the U.S. and their Homelands.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Marketing the American Creed Abroad: Diasporas in the U.S. and their Homelands. By Yossi Sham. Cambridge: 1999. xviii + 294 pp. Notes and index. $54.95 (cloth); $17.95 (paper). The new effervescence in the study of American ethnic...