Journal of American Ethnic History articles from March 1996

Journal of American Ethnic History archives from March 1996

The creation of multi-ethnic peoplehood: the Wilkeson, Washington experience.
March 22, 1996... Historians of immigration and ethnicity often overlook small multi-ethnic industrial towns, preferring instead to study immigrants in large Midwestern and Eastern cities. Regardless of these historians' oversights, complex forms of immigrant...

American Slovenes and the Leftist movements in the United States in the first half of the twentieth century.
March 22, 1996... This article proves that the Slovene "left" in the United States was very active, although the number of organized members of the Slovene section of the Yugoslav Socialist Federation never exceeded 3 percent of the whole Slovene immigrant...

In the Shadow of the Statue of Liberty: Immigrants, Workers, and Citizens in the American Republic, 1880-1920.
March 22, 1996... "The immigrants were American history," their story inseparable from "the whole history of the United States," wrote Oscar Handlin in 1951. That formidable enterprise has continued to challenge all students of American immigration history, even...

Crossings: The Great Transatlantic Migrations, 1870-1914.
March 22, 1996... "The immigrants were American history," their story inseparable from "the whole history of the United States," wrote Oscar Handlin in 1951. That formidable enterprise has continued to challenge all students of American immigration history, even...

Round-Trip to America: The Immigrants Return to Europe, 1880-1930.
March 22, 1996... "The immigrants were American history," their story inseparable from "the whole history of the United States," wrote Oscar Handlin in 1951. That formidable enterprise has continued to challenge all students of American immigration history, even...

Leaving England: Essays on British Emigration in the Nineteenth Century.
March 22, 1996... "The immigrants were American history," their story inseparable from "the whole history of the United States," wrote Oscar Handlin in 1951. That formidable enterprise has continued to challenge all students of American immigration history, even...

Race in America: The Struggle for Equality.
March 22, 1996... Efforts to examine race relations in America are the focus of four recently published books. In a unique fashion, each book discusses the structural, political and historical factors which have led to the realization that racism in American...

Ideal Citizens: The Legacy of the Civil Rights Movement.
March 22, 1996... Efforts to examine race relations in America are the focus of four recently published books. In a unique fashion, each book discusses the structural, political and historical factors which have led to the realization that racism in American...

American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass.
March 22, 1996... Efforts to examine race relations in America are the focus of four recently published books. In a unique fashion, each book discusses the structural, political and historical factors which have led to the realization that racism in American...

Prejudice, Politics, and the American Dilemma.
March 22, 1996... Efforts to examine race relations in America are the focus of four recently published books. In a unique fashion, each book discusses the structural, political and historical factors which have led to the realization that racism in American...

The Roots of American Racism.
March 22, 1996... For some time now, the debate over the beginnings of racism in the United States has been stuck, alternating between positions staked out a quarter-century ago in an exchange in the William and Mary Quarterly between Oscar and Mary Handlin on the...

The Invention of the White Race, vol. 1, Racial Oppression and Social Control.
March 22, 1996... For some time now, the debate over the beginnings of racism in the United States has been stuck, alternating between positions staked out a quarter-century ago in an exchange in the William and Mary Quarterly between Oscar and Mary Handlin on the...

A Legal History of Asian Americans: 1790-1990.
March 22, 1996... This book surveys how United States immigration and naturalization laws have discriminated against Asian immigrants and Asian Americans. The author divides United States immigration history into seven periods: the colonial period (1609-1775), the...

To Save China, To Save Ourselves: The Chinese Hand Laundry Alliance of New York.
March 22, 1996... Although Chinese laundrymen were once a vital economic foundation of the Chinese American community, until recently Paul Siu's The Chinese Laundryman: A Study of Social Isolation was the only full-length study that attempted to treat them with...

Farming the Home Place: A Japanese American Community in California, 1919-1982
March 22, 1996... Farming the Home Place is a unique book about a unique community. The story of the Japanese American agricultural settlement of Cortez, in California's Central Valley, is one that has beginnings and renewals but no endings. It documents the...

The Hood River Issei: An Oral History of Japanese Settlers in Oregon's Hood River Valley.
March 22, 1996... Farming the Home Place is a unique book about a unique community. The story of the Japanese American agricultural settlement of Cortez, in California's Central Valley, is one that has beginnings and renewals but no endings. It documents the...

Righting a Wrong: Japanese Americans and the Passage of the Civil Liberties Act of 1988.
March 22, 1996... Executive Order 9066, the World War II-era decision permitting Japanese American relocation and internment, and the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, the measure apologizing for and compensating the victims of this injustice, are two United States...

Breaking the Silence: Redress and Japanese American Ethnicity.
March 22, 1996... Executive Order 9066, the World War II-era decision permitting Japanese American relocation and internment, and the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, the measure apologizing for and compensating the victims of this injustice, are two United States...

La Emigracion Contemporanea de Espanoles a Estados Unidos, 1820-1950: De 'Dons' a 'Misters'.
March 22, 1996... During the period of mass transatlantic migrations, between the mid-nineteenth century and the world depression, over four million Spaniards came to the New World. Unlike their fellow Europeans, however, most headed for Argentina, Brazil, Cuba,...

The California-Mexico Connection.
March 22, 1996... This timely volume attempts to examine a subject that others before it have ignored. The editors assert that theirs is the first book "in any language to explore and begin to map" what they term the California-Mexico connection (p. ix)....

Roots of Chicano Politics: 1600-1940.
March 22, 1996... Historian Juan Gomez-Quinones has followed his impressive history of modern Chicano politics with Roots of Chicano Politics, 1600-1940, a lengthy and detailed synthesis that focuses on the political tradition of the early Chicano community. Using...

Walls and Mirrors: Mexican Americans, Mexican Immigrants, and the Politics of Ethnicity.
March 22, 1996... This is not just another book on Mexican immigration. Rather than focusing on the ebbs and flows of Mexicans across the border, Walls and Mirrors explores Mexican American attitudes towards immigration since 1848. Gutierrez demonstrates the...

Special Sorrows: The Diasporic Imagination of Irish, Polish and Jewish Immigrants in the United States.
March 22, 1996... "American historians," Matthew Jacobson contends, "tend to write about immigration as arrival and settlement, but the migrants themselves often experienced the move - and the weight of American culture's perpetually enforced interpretation of the...

The Nearest Place That Wasn't Ireland: Early Ninetheenth-Century Irish Labor Migration.
March 22, 1996... This is an odd, even eccentric, and ultimately exasperating book. The topic is an important one - pre-Famine emigration from Ireland to England and Scotland - but neither author nor publisher does full credit to it. There is no indisputable...

Studies in Italian American Folklore.
March 22, 1996... The contours of the Italian-American experience - the arresting and tenacious hold of regional traditions, the sensual qualities of food, feste, and music, and the enveloping nature of family and neighborhood - beg collaboration between...

Struggle and Success: An Anthology of the Italian American Experience in California.
March 22, 1996... This volume, consisting of original essays, graduate research, and previously published articles, documents the Italian presence in California. Sections address history, occupations and economic trends, social and political experiences, and the...

Bridges to an American City: A Guide to Chicago's Landsmanschaften, 1870-1990.
March 22, 1996... Bridges to an American City is an extensive guide to Chicago's landsmanschaften as they existed in the city from 1870 to 1990. Sorkin has provided historians not only with a valuable primer concerning these important Jewish immigrant...

Tropical Diaspora: The Jewish Experience in Cuba.
March 22, 1996... In proportional terms, Cuba offered refugee or migrant status to more Jews than any other Latin American country, more, in fact, than was offered by the United States. In addition, despite occasional periods of hostility by certain sectors of the...

Aliens and Dissenters: Federal Suppression of Radicals, 1903-1933.
March 22, 1996... We are indebted to the University of Illinois Press for making the 1963 classic Aliens and Dissenters available in a second edition. William Preston's account of federal suppression of radicalism in the first three decades of this century remains...

American Xenophobia and the Slav Immigrant: A Living Legacy of Mind and Spirit.
March 22, 1996... Wtulich has consulted numerous important secondary works to produce a volume on "xenophobia," although the contents do not always address the theme in a persuasive manner. In six chapters she defines and then discusses the topic under the...

Social Order and Political Change: Constitutional Governments Among the Cherokee, the Choctaw, the Chickasaw and the Creek.
March 22, 1996... The Indian removal crisis of the 1820s and 1830s has been the subject of scholarly debate for a number of years. While this is indeed an extremely important part of Native American history and some attention has been paid to the post-removal era,...

After the Trail of Tears: The Cherokee's Struggle for Sovereignty, 1839-1880.
March 22, 1996... The Indian removal crisis of the 1820s and 1830s has been the subject of scholarly debate for a number of years. While this is indeed an extremely important part of Native American history and some attention has been paid to the post-removal era,...

The Making of Exile Cultures: Iranian Television in Los Angeles.
March 22, 1996... In The Making of Exile Cultures, Hamid Naficy provides us with a complex yet readable text that addresses theoretical developments in the analyses of exile culture as well as provides us with intimate and revealing personal experiences, such as...

IRANGELES: Iranians in Los Angeles.
March 22, 1996... The publication of IRANGELES: Iranians in Los Angeles is a complement of articles which identify and decipher the complex of peoples from Iran who have immigrated to Los Angeles. While the book includes an historic overview of immigration...