Journal of American Ethnic History articles from March 1998

Journal of American Ethnic History archives from March 1998

The triad of Roman authority: fascism, the Vatican, and Italian religious clergy in the Italian emigrant church.
March 22, 1998... On 18 February 1940, a boisterous mob of recalcitrant Italian-American parishioners of the Holy Redeemer Church in Cleveland clashed with diocesan authorities and the Cleveland police in their second successful effort to forestall the...

Black families and migration to a multiracial society: Portland, Oregon, 1900-1924.
March 22, 1998... Scholars usually identify the key event in the transformation of African Americans from rural to urban dwellers as the "Great Migration" between 1915 and 1927.(1) During these years the major cities of the Mid-west attracted tens of thousands...

Formal mutual aid structures among American Mennonites and Brethren: assimilation and reconstructed ethnicity.
March 22, 1998... CULTURAL ASSIMILATION, STRUCTURAL PLURALISM, AND MUTUAL AID Mutual aid societies have been among the most common and concrete expressions of ethnicity in the United States. Immigrant communities and settled ethnic enclaves of all sorts have...

The immigration debate.
March 22, 1998... The debate about immigration has produced scholarly and polemical books attempting to persuade the American public and Congress that immigration is either a disaster or that it is beneficial to the United States. Among the recent works, those...

Alien Nation: Common Sense About America's Immigration Disaster.
March 22, 1998... By Peter Brimelow. New York: Random House, 1995. xiii + 327 pp. Appendixes, notes, and index. $24.00. The debate about immigration has produced scholarly and polemical books attempting to persuade the American public and Congress that...

Mass Immigration and the National Interest, 2d ed.
March 22, 1998... By Vernon Briggs, Jr. 2d edition. Armonk, New York: M.E. Sharpe, 1996. xii + 283 pp. Illustrations, appendixes, notes, and index. $62.95 (cloth); $24.95 (paper). The debate about immigration has produced scholarly and polemical books...

The Case Against Immigration: The Moral, Economic, Social and Environmental Reasons for Reducing U.S. Immigration Back to Traditional Levels.
March 22, 1998... By Roy Beck. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1996. 287 pp. Notes, and index. $24.00. The debate about immigration has produced scholarly and polemical books attempting to persuade the American public and Congress that immigration is either a...

Assimilation American Style: An Impassioned Defense of Immigration and Assimilation as the Foundation of American Greatness and the American Dream.
March 22, 1998... By Peter D. Salins. New York: Basic Books, 1997. xi + 259 pp. Notes, and index. $26.00. The debate about immigration has produced scholarly and polemical books attempting to persuade the American public and Congress that immigration is...

Fresh Blood: The New American Immigrants.
March 22, 1998... By Sanford J. Ungar. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996. 399 pp. Bibliographic references, and index. $25.00. The debate about immigration has produced scholarly and polemical books attempting to persuade the American public and Congress that...

The Immigration Debate: Remaking America.
March 22, 1998... By John Isbister. Hartford, Connecticut: Kumarian Press, Inc., 1996. vii + 263 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $38.00 (cloth); $21.95 (paper). The debate about immigration has produced scholarly and polemical books attempting to persuade...

From the field: four studies of new Americans.
March 22, 1998... These four volumes are part of the first group of five in this series, edited by the Anthropologist Nancy Foner (along with Steven Gold's From the Workers' State to the Golden State: Jews from the Former Soviet Union in California, reviewed...

A Visa for a Dream: Dominicans in the United States.
March 22, 1998... By Patricia R. Pessar. The New Immigrants Series. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1995. xv + 98 pp. Notes and bibliography. $15.00. These four volumes are part of the first group of five in this series, edited by the Anthropologist Nancy Foner...

Changing Identities: Vietnamese Americans, 1975-1995.
March 22, 1998... By James M. Freeman. The New Immigrants Series. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1995. ix + 141 pp. Bibliography. $15.00. These four volumes are part of the first group of five in this series, edited by the Anthropologist Nancy Foner (along with...

From the Ganges to the Hudson: Indian Immigrants in New York City.
March 22, 1998... By Johanna Lessinger. The New Immigrants Series. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1995. xvi + 166 pp. Bibliography. $15.00. These four volumes are part of the first group of five in this series, edited by the Anthropologist Nancy Foner (along with...

Salvadorans in Suburbia: Symbiosis and Conflict.
March 22, 1998... By Sarah J. Mahler. The New Immigrants Series. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1995. xxix + 137 pp. Bibliography. $15.00. These four volumes are part of the first group of five in this series, edited by the Anthropologist Nancy Foner (along with...

New approaches to American Indian texts: the personal narrative.
March 22, 1998... The field of Native American literary criticism is currently one of the most lively and fruitful sites of interdisciplinary scholarship. A good sense of the vitality of this field is provided in Arnold Krupat's Native American Autobiography: An...

Native American Autobiography: An Anthology.
March 22, 1998... Edited by Arnold Krupat. Wisconsin Studies in American Autobiography. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1994. 546 pp. Introduction; illustrations, and index. $19.95. The field of Native American literary criticism is currently one...

Keeping Slug Woman Alive: A Holistic Approach to American Indian Texts.
March 22, 1998... By Greg Sarris. Berkeley, Los Angeles, and Oxford: University of California Press, 1993.214 pp. Bibliography, and index. $14.95. The field of Native American literary criticism is currently one of the most lively and fruitful sites of...

Left Handed, Son of Old Man Hat: A Navajo Autobiography.
March 22, 1998... By Left Handed. Recorded by Walter Dyk. Foreword by Edward Sapir. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1996. Originally published as Son of Old Man Hat: A Navaho Autobiography. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1938. xiv + 378 pp....

Still the Promised City?: African Americans and New Immigrants in Postindustrial New York.
March 22, 1998... By Roger Waldinger. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1996. x + 374 pp. Tables, graphs, appendices, notes, and index. $35.00. When sociologist Roger Waldinger addresses the question of whether New York has in recent decades been able to...

Waiting on Washington: Central American Workers in the Nation's Capital.
March 22, 1998... By Terry A. Repack. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1995. xii + 243 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, appendix, notes, bibliography, and index. $49.95 (cloth); $16.95 (paper). Anyone who has visited the nation's capital will recognize...

Mexico's Hidden Revolution: The Catholic Church in Law and Politics Since 1929.
March 22, 1998... By Peter Lester Reich. Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 1995. x + 192 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $28.95. The work under review challenges the conventional historical wisdom which dictates that friction and...

Dark Sweat, White Gold: California Farm Workers, Cotton, and the New Deal.
March 22, 1998... By Devra Weber. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995. xv + 338 pp. Illustrations, appendices, notes, bibliography, and index. $40.00. There is much to be gained from both the broad synthesis and the defined case study: the journey...

Mexican American Labor: 1790-1990.
March 22, 1998... By Juan Gomez-Quinones. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1994 xii + 462. Notes, bibliography, and index. $80.00 (cloth); $40.00 (paper). There is much to be gained from both the broad synthesis and the defined case study: the...

Border Correspondent: Selected Writings, 1955-1970.
March 22, 1998... By Ruben Salazar. Edited and with an introduction by Mario T. Garcia. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995. xx + 283 pp. Photographs and Index. $28.00. This selection of some ninety articles from Ruben Salazar's sixteen years as a...

Conquests and Historical Identities in California: 1769-1936.
March 22, 1998... By Lisabeth Haas. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 1995. xv + 269 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, appendices, notes, selected bibliography, and index. $35.00. A quality work of ethnic history resembles a...

A Contest of Faiths: Missionary Women and Pluralism in the American Southwest.
March 22, 1998... By Susan M. Yohn. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1995. xi + 266 pp. Map, illustrations, notes bibliography, and index. $40.00 (cloth); $16.95 (paper). The "contest of faiths" Susan Yohn refers to in her book on Presbyterian...

Polish Americans: An Ethnic Community.
March 22, 1998... By James S. Pula. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1995. xi + 181 pp. Map, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $17.95. A history of North America is to a great extent a history of immigration. During the nineteenth and the first...

For Bread and a Better Future: Emigration from Poland to Canada, 1918-1939.
March 22, 1998... By Anna Reczynska. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1996. xi + 234 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $28.95. A history of North America is to a great extent a history of immigration. During the nineteenth...

Everyday Life and Festivity in a Local Ethnic Community: Polish-Americans in South Bend, Indiana.
March 22, 1998... By Janusz Mucha. Boulder, Colorado: East European Monographs, 1996. ix + 202 pp. Notes and bibliography. $28.00. The story of ethnicity has often been told from the perspective of the large urban settlements. This has been particularly true...

How We Found America: Reading Gender Through East European Immigrant Narratives.
March 22, 1998... By Magdalena J. Zaborowska. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1995. xiii + 359 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $45.00 (cloth); $18.95 (paper). The study of immigrant women is an especially exciting project because of...

Ameriski Slovenci in katoliska Cerkev: 1871-1924.
March 22, 1998... [American Slovenes and the Catholic Church 1871-1924]. By Darko Fris. Celovec, Ljubljana, Dunaj (Klagenfurt, Ljubljana, Vienna): Mohorjeva zalozba, 1995. 417 pp. Maps, tables, bibliography, name and place photographs, index, and English...

Gender and Assimilation in Modern Jewish History: The Roles and Representation of Women.
March 22, 1998... By Paula E. Hyman. The Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1995. xiii + 197 pp. Index. $30.00 (cloth); $14.95 (paper). In this pathbreaking book Paula Hyman uses the prism of gender to...

Portrait of American Jews: The Last Half of the 20th Century.
March 22, 1998... By Samuel C. Heilman. The Samuel & Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies. Seattle & London: University of Washington Press, 1995. xvi + 190 pp. Tables, notes, and index. $30.00 (cloth); $17.95 (paper). Samuel C. Heilman, now a...

Community and Polity: The Organizational Dynamics of American Jewry.
March 22, 1998... Rev. ed. By Daniel J. Elazar. Philadelphia and Jerusalem: The Jewish Publication Society, 1995. xvii + 494 pp. Tables, figures, selected bibliography of Jewish community studies, and index. $49.95 (cloth); $30.00 (paper). When the original...

White Racism: The Basics.
March 22, 1998... By Joe R. Feagin and Hernan Vera. New York: Routledge, 1995. xvi + 230 pp. Notes and index. $55.00 (cloth); $16.95 (paper). In this short, readable book, two University of Florida sociologists argue that white racism continues to pervade...

The Supreme Court, Race, and Civil Rights.
March 22, 1998... By Abraham L. Davis and Barbara Luck Graham. Thousand Oaks, California: Sage Publications, 1995. xxiii + 483 pp. Tables, suggested readings, and index. $31.50. Three themes are traced in this historical survey (1801-1995) of Supreme Court...

Facing Up to the American Dream: Race, Class, and the Soul of the Nation.
March 22, 1998... By Jennifer L. Hochschild. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995. x + 412 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, appendix, bibliography, and index. $29.95. Hochschild argues that the American dream is in danger of being abandoned because of...

Feasts and Celebrations in North American Ethnic Communities.
March 22, 1998... Edited by Ramon A. Gutierrez and Genevieve Fabre. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1995. xiv + 195 pp. Figures, notes, and index. $30.00. This work is essentially a collection of eleven revised English language papers given at an...

Black Liberation: A Comparative History of Black Ideologies in the United States and South Africa.
March 22, 1998... By George Fredrickson. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.390 pp. Notes and index. $30.00. This is a worthy sequel to George Fredrickson's widely-admired White Supremacy. In that book, he examined the development of racist ideology in...

Multiracial Couples: Black and White Voices.
March 22, 1998... Edited by Paul C. Rosenblatt, Terri A. Karis, and Richard Powell. Walnut Creek, California: Sage Publications, 1995. xiv + 305 pp. $44.00 (cloth); $21.95 (paper). Tackling a social issue around which myths still abound and social taboos can...

American Families: Issues in Race and Ethnicity.
March 22, 1998... Edited by Cardell K. Jacobson. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1995. vii + 518 pp. Figures, tables, notes, and bibliography. $72.00. The need for extensive and comprehensive analyses of racial/ethnic families in America cannot be...

Religion and American Culture: A Reader.
March 22, 1998... Edited by David G. Hackett. New York and London: Routledge, 1995. xi + 518 pp. Notes. $90.95 (cloth); $24.95 (paper). In surveying recent scholarship on American religion, the always astute Martin Marty charted a fundamental shift in...

They Called It Prairie Light: The Story of Chilocco Indian School.
March 22, 1998... By K. Tsianian Lomawaima. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1995. xviii + 205 pp. Map, illustration, tables, notes, appendix, bibliography, and index. $12.00. In a critical yet loving voice, K. T. Lomawaima portrays what her father's...

Braid of Feathers: American Indian Law and Contemporary Tribal Life.
March 22, 1998... By Frank Pommersheim. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1995. x + 267 pp. Notes and index. $28.00. Frank Pommersheim is a professor of law at the University of South Dakota. He also taught at Sinte Gleska University on...

When the Wind Was a River: Aleut Evacuation in World War II.
March 22, 1998... By Dean Kohlhoff. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1995. vii + 234 pp. Maps, illustrations, appendix, note on sources, notes, and index. $24.95. After Japanese attacks on the Aleutians in summer 1942, American officials evacuated 881...

The immigration debate. (books on advantages and/or disadvantages of immigration in America by Peter Brimelow, Vernon Briggs Jr.'s, Roy Beck, Peter D. Salins, Sanford J. Ungar and John Isbister)
March 22, 1998... The debate about immigration has produced scholarly and polemical books attempting to persuade the American public and Congress that immigration is either a disaster or that it is beneficial to the United States. Among the recent works, those...