Journal of American Ethnic History articles from March 1995

Journal of American Ethnic History archives from March 1995

The other immigrants: comparing the Irish in Australia and the United States.
March 22, 1995... The last decade has seen a great flowering of scholarship both in the study of emigration from Ireland and in the examination of patterns of Irish settlement in the New World. The recent publication of studies on the Irish in South Africa and New...

National groups and the popular front: the case of the International Workers Order.
March 22, 1995... The International Workers Order (IWO) was one of many mass organizations that functioned in the orbit of the Communist party in the 1930s and 1940s. Founded in 1930, as a fraternal body to provide low cost term life insurance for workers, the IWO...

The Ukrainian Americans: Roots and Aspirations, 1884-1954.
March 22, 1995... By Myron B. Kuropas. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1991. xxvii + 534 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $55.00. The three books under review are united chiefly by their being classified as "ethnic...

The Quest for the Rusyn Soul: The Politics of Religion and Culture in Eastern Europe and in America, 1890 - World War I.
March 22, 1995... By Keith P. Dyrud. Philadelphia: The Balch Institute Press, 1992. 155 pp. Notes, Bibliography and index. $29.50. The three books under review are united chiefly by their being classified as "ethnic history." Myron Kuropas' book is a...

Armenian-Americans: From Being to Feeling Armenian.
March 22, 1995... The three books under review are united chiefly by their being classified as "ethnic history." Myron Kuropas' book is a tour-de-force which relates the interesting, detailed, and tortured story of a people who evolved in America from Rusyns to...

Refugee Policy: Canada and the United States.
March 22, 1995... This edited volume contains twenty papers originally presented at a 1990 Conference entitled "Refugee Policy: A Comparison of Canada and the United States." They are grouped into five categories: (1) Government Perspectives; (2) Theoretical...

Refugee Communities: A Comparative Field Study.
March 22, 1995... Steven J. Gold's comparative field study of Soviet Jewish and Vietnamese refugee communities in California serves a threefold purpose. It provides a useful contemporary portrait of those groups, offers an excellent example of comparative...

Asian and Pacific Islander Migration to the United States: A Model of New Global Patterns.
March 22, 1995... International migration and the fate of immigrants are major issues in American intellectual discussions and public policy forums, as well as popular topics for novels and doctoral dissertations. These new interests arise from the increasing...

Multiculturalism in the United States: A Comparative Guide to Acculturation and Ethnicity.
March 22, 1995... This valuable book provides a series of succinct (12-22 pages), informative, historically-oriented essays on ten important United States racial and ethnic groups. The editors describe them as a "large enough sample of ethnic groups that we...

Asian Americans: An Interpretive History.
March 22, 1995... By Sucheng Chan. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1991. xviii + 242 pp. Maps, illustrations, appendices, notes, bibliographic essay and index. $11.95. Current works in Asian American studies, reflecting recent trends in the social science...

Chinatown: The Socioeconomic Potential of an Urban Enclave.
March 22, 1995... Chinatown: The Socioeconomic Potential of an Urban Enclave. By Min Zhou. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1992. xxiv + 275 pp. Figures, tables, notes, references and index. $44.95. Current works in Asian American studies, reflecting...

Chinatown: Most Time, Hard Time.
March 22, 1995... Current works in Asian American studies, reflecting recent trends in the social science literature, are moving toward a consideration of the people or decision makers who actively try to shape their destiny in American life. Despite obstacles and...

Immigrant Voices: New Lives in America, 1773-1986.
March 22, 1995... What do an eighteenth-century indentured servant in Virginia, a nineteenth-century Italian cook and washwoman who worked in Missouri and Illinois, and a twentieth-century Vietnamese family in Chicago have in common? Answer: they all have left us...

The European Emigrant Experience in the U.S.A..
March 22, 1995... When does the publication of essays presented at a scholarly conference constitute a book? This collection of seventeen papers from the 1988 meeting of the Austrian Association of American Studies is a negative example. Even though some...

Out on the Wind: Poles and Danes in Lincoln County, Minnesota, 1880-1905.
March 22, 1995... In the bibliographical essay appended to And My Children Did Not Know Me (1987) John Bukowczyk notes the sparse literature on Polish immigrant agricultural settlements in the United States: a list of six entries published between 1929 and 1980,...

Emigranci Polscy w USA.
March 22, 1995... In 1980, according to the United States census, the Polish American community numbered 8,228,000. It embraces descendants of the Great Peasant Immigration which reached America prior to World War II; some 140,000 members of the World War II...

Seeking Common Ground: Multidisciplinary Studies of Immigrant Women in the United States.
March 22, 1995... The goal of this edited volume is to promote interdisciplinary communication about the lives of women who have immigrated to the United States. As the title suggests, Gabaccia hopes recognition of a "common ground" that transcends "disciplinary...

Tradition in a Rootless World: Women Turn to Orthodox Judaism.
March 22, 1995... This is a first rate monograph, analyzing why groups of modern Jewish women have chosen to find solace and fulfillment by returning to orthodox (traditional) or fundamentalist (hasidic) Jewish communities. It may also be the first study focusing...

My Daughter the Teacher: Jewish Teachers in the New York City Schools.
March 22, 1995... Ruth Markowitz has written a book about Jewish women teachers in the New York City schools between 1920 and 1940. Her sources consist of interviews with sixty-one Jewish women, all of whom were teachers in New York during the interwar years. She...

We Fall and Rise: Russian-Language Newspapers in New York City, 1889-1914.
March 22, 1995... The numbers of immigrant newspapers published in the United States have mushroomed in recent years, stimulated by waves of immigrants from a great variety of countries. Accordingly, scholars finally have begun to research in this important area....

Out of the Barrio: Toward a New Politics of Hispanic Assimilation.
March 22, 1995... The straightforward title of Linda Chavez's book is germane to her subject. She is indeed dealing with the politics of Hispanic assimilation; however, there is little new about her approach. Chavez adopts the neo-conservative ideas of the 1970s...

Between Race and Ethnicity: Cape Verdean American Immigrants, 1860-1965.
March 22, 1995... In Between Race and Ethnicity, Marilyn Halter presents a fascinating account of a little studied group - the Cape Verdeans. For this book, the author relies on the limited literature on Cape Verdeans and on extensive fieldwork conducted in the...

Sojourners in the Sun: Scottish Migrants in Jamaica and the Chesapeake, 1740-1800.
March 22, 1995... Using abundant source material, this well-constructed book demonstrates the importance of transients in migration history. "Sojourners" went to the colonies to make money and return. Colonial success was their key to heightened status at home....

The Mashpee Indians: Tribe on Trial.
March 22, 1995... While serving as an expert witness for the Mashpees in the 1977-79 case in which they attempted to establish title to $50 million worth of real estate in southwestern Cape Cod, anthropologist Jack Campisi discovered that hard cases make bad law....

Ethnic Diversity and Civic Identity: Patterns of Conflict and Cohesion in Cincinnati since 1820.
March 22, 1995... The title and introductions to this collection of essays promise far more than the contents deliver. Although the preface conveys what some readers might interpret as hostility toward ethnicity and disdain for immigration and ethnic scholarship,...

Citizen Klansmen: The Ku Klux Klan in Indiana, 1921-1928.
March 22, 1995... The most infamous extremist movement in the United States has been the Ku Klux Klan. Scholars generally separate this 125-year-old movement into three distinct eras: the Reconstruction Klan, the Klan of the 1920s, and the post-World War II Klan....

The Life Stories of (Undistinguished) Americans: As Told by Themselves.
March 22, 1995... This book is both more and less than what its title promises. The chapters were written as articles about the lives of "undistinguished" Americans by a variety of authors in the progressive New York newspaper, The Independent, between 1902 and...