Journal of American Ethnic History articles from March 1997

Journal of American Ethnic History archives from March 1997

The End of Racism.
March 22, 1997... If this sampling of books from the battlefronts is any indication, the culture wars seem destined to rage on well into the twenty-first century. So, too, will debates over white racism and the poorest African Americans' own responsibility for...

Impacts of Racism on White Americans.
March 22, 1997... If this sampling of books from the battlefronts is any indication, the culture wars seem destined to rage on well into the twenty-first century. So, too, will debates over white racism and the poorest African Americans' own responsibility for...

Understanding Interracial Unity: A Study of U.S. Race Relations.
March 22, 1997... If this sampling of books from the battlefronts is any indication, the culture wars seem destined to rage on well into the twenty-first century. So, too, will debates over white racism and the poorest African Americans' own responsibility for...

The New Color Line: How Quotas and Privilege Destroy Democracy.
March 22, 1997... If this sampling of books from the battlefronts is any indication, the culture wars seem destined to rage on well into the twenty-first century. So, too, will debates over white racism and the poorest African Americans' own responsibility for...

The Twilight of Common Dreams: Why America Is Wracked by Culture Wars.
March 22, 1997... If this sampling of books from the battlefronts is any indication, the culture wars seem destined to rage on well into the twenty-first century. So, too, will debates over white racism and the poorest African Americans' own responsibility for...

The Coming Man: 19th Century American Perceptions of the Chinese.
March 22, 1997... Ever since the publication of Mary Robert Coolidge's classic, Chinese Immigration (1909), the approach taken in writing the history of Chinese Americans had evolved in accordance with the temper of the times. In the early years of this century,...

Unbound Feet: A Social History of Chinese Women in San Francisco.
March 22, 1997... Ever since the publication of Mary Robert Coolidge's classic, Chinese Immigration (1909), the approach taken in writing the history of Chinese Americans had evolved in accordance with the temper of the times. In the early years of this century,...

Laws Harsh as Tigers: Chinese Immigrants and the Shaping of Modern Immigration Law.
March 22, 1997... Ever since the publication of Mary Robert Coolidge's classic, Chinese Immigration (1909), the approach taken in writing the history of Chinese Americans had evolved in accordance with the temper of the times. In the early years of this century,...

Mexican American in Texas: A Brief History.
March 22, 1997... These four studies are notable contributions to the ever-growing literature on Mexican American topics. In particular, they serve those interested in Tejano, multicultural or comparative studies. Arnoldo DeLeon's Mexican Americans in Texas...

Not Room Enough: Mexicans, Anglos and Socioeconomic Change in Texas, 1850-1900.
March 22, 1997... These four studies are notable contributions to the ever-growing literature on Mexican American topics. In particular, they serve those interested in Tejano, multicultural or comparative studies. Arnoldo DeLeon's Mexican Americans in Texas...

Living on the Edge of America: At Home on the Texas-Mexican Border.
March 22, 1997... These four studies are notable contributions to the ever-growing literature on Mexican American topics. In particular, they serve those interested in Tejano, multicultural or comparative studies. Arnoldo DeLeon's Mexican Americans in Texas...

Mexican American Youth Organization: Avant-Garde of the Chicano Movement in Texas.
March 22, 1997... These four studies are notable contributions to the ever-growing literature on Mexican American topics. In particular, they serve those interested in Tejano, multicultural or comparative studies. Arnoldo DeLeon's Mexican Americans in Texas...

From Colonia to Community - The History of Puerto Ricans in New York City.
March 22, 1997... Taking issue with those who have argued that Puerto Ricans on the Island and in New York have lacked strong community leadership and organization, Virginia Sanchez Korrol documents the building of diverse and vibrant Puerto Rican communities in...

Homesteading in New York City: 1978-1993 - The Divided Heart of Loisaida.
March 22, 1997... Taking issue with those who have argued that Puerto Ricans on the Island and in New York have lacked strong community leadership and organization, Virginia Sanchez Korrol documents the building of diverse and vibrant Puerto Rican communities in...

Race and the Shaping of Twentieth-Century Atlanta.
March 22, 1997... Ronald H. Bayor's Race and the Shaping of Twentieth-Century Atlanta offers a sweeping assessment of how the issue of race so dominated the public policy arena of modern Atlanta. While the author is certainly not the first scholar to debunk the...

Havana USA: Cuban Exiles and Cuban Americans in South Florida, 1959-1994.
March 22, 1997... Writing contemporary history is a rough and risky business, and all the more when the subject of inquiry is the rambunctious and raucously political Cuban exile community in Miami. Maria Cristina Garcia's Havana USA is a vivid example of those...

Next Year in Cuba: A Cubano's Coming-of-Age in America.
March 22, 1997... Most accounts of Cuban-American life harp on the achievements of the exiles from Castro's revolution in education, employment, and politics. Paradoxically, their triumph has not yet reconciled them to America. "Unlike the immigrants, we did not...

For the Sake of Our Japanese Brethren: Assimilation, Nationalism, and Protestantism among the Japanese of Los Angeles, 1895-194.
March 22, 1997... Brian Hayashi offers interesting vignettes of the lives and lifestyles of pre-World War II Japanese American Protestants through his study of these Japanese Christian churches in Los Angeles. The religious conversion of these individuals of...

The Politics of Diversity: Immigration, Resistance, and Change in Monterey Park, California.
March 22, 1997... Since 1990, Monterey Park, a predominantly white middle-class suburb only twenty years earlier, has become the first multiethnic city dominated by Asian Americans (56 percent). In such a rapidly growing city, both established residents and...

Native American Writing in the Southeast: An Anthology, 1875-1935.
March 22, 1997... This collection's title is slightly misleading, as the works it contains are written almost exclusively by Native Americans born in the Indian Territory. The represented peoples - Choctaw, Cherokee, Chickasaw, Yuchi, and Muscogee - all have...

Gateway to the Promised Land: Ethnic Cultures in New York's Lower East Side.
March 22, 1997... Home to successive waves of immigrants, the Lower East Side has long been a source of fascination to outside observers, including former residents and their descendants. The area especially interests historical tourists because it displays its...

The Jewish East Side: 1881-1924.
March 22, 1997... Home to successive waves of immigrants, the Lower East Side has long been a source of fascination to outside observers, including former residents and their descendants. The area especially interests historical tourists because it displays its...

Hopeful Journeys: German Immigration, Settlement, and Political Culture in Colonial America, 1717-1775.
March 22, 1997... This book offers a concise, well-written, and highly useful overview of eighteenth-century German immigration to British North America. Fogelman is particularly adept at explaining how the European social and political background influenced the...

The American Street Gang: Its Nature, Prevalence, and Control.
March 22, 1997... Gang life exerts a kind of magic hold on the American imagination. Films celebrate it, the government demonizes it and academics study it. In his most recent book, Malcolm Klein, the "dean of gang researchers," turns the searchlight of sober,...

Columbus and the New World: Medical Implications.
March 22, 1997... "The Columbian exchange," which followed the "discovery" of the Americas, had a profound impact on the natural world and its inhabitants, both human and animal. Focusing on the medical impact of exploration, Columbus and the New World: Medical...

Take My Word: Autobiographical Innovations of Ethnic American Working Women.
March 22, 1997... In Anne Goldman's literary analysis of traditional approaches to autobiography, the author has selected an unusual group of autobiographical texts to critique. She examines culinary narratives and midwifery experiences of New Mexicans and...