Journal of American Ethnic History articles from March 1999

Journal of American Ethnic History archives from March 1999

Troubled by newcomers: anti-immigrant attitudes and action during two eras of mass immigration to the United States.
March 22, 1999... This article examines anti-immigrant attitudes and action during our two eras of heaviest immigration, 1880-1924 and 1970-1998. The goal is to show the similarities and differences between anti-immigrant phenomena in both eras and examine the...

The effects of immigrant diversity and ethnic competition on collective conflict in urban America: an assessment of two moments of mass migration, 1869-1924 and 1965-1993.
March 22, 1999... IMMIGRATION AND CONFLICT IN THE UNITED STATES While national mythology hails the United States as a country of well-integrated and assimilated immigrants, historical reality offers a very different account. Indeed, American national history...

A comparison of post-1965 and turn-of-the-century immigrants in intergenerational mobility and cultural transmission.
March 22, 1999... Between 1880 and 1930, approximately 28 million people immigrated to the United States. About half of the immigrants during this mass migration period originated from Southern and Eastern European countries. While the vast majority of the...

Immigrant women and work in New York City, then and now.
March 22, 1999... Today's immigrant women enter a society that has undergone remarkable changes since the last great immigrant influx early in the century. Perhaps most dramatic, there has been a virtual revolution in women's involvement in the labor force....

From "the jazz singer" to "what a country!" A comparison of Jewish migration to the United States, 1880-1930 and 1965-1998.
March 22, 1999... The twentieth century has been a time of enormous change for the Jewish people. Momentous events included the Nazi Holocaust, the founding of the State of Israel, the relocation of the center of Jewish civilization from Eastern Europe to the...

A reading of ethnic readers.(books on ethnicity)
March 22, 1999... The first three of these books tell us that ethnicity is a new word in the English language. Although used by an occasional sociologist as early as 1945, it attracted almost no attention until the 1960s. Then it blossomed as a name for the...

Theories of Ethnicity: A Classical Reader.(Review)
March 22, 1999... Edited by Werner Sollors. New York: New York University Press, 1996. liii + 501 pp. Notes, tables, index. $65.00 (cloth); $22.50 (paper). The first three of these books tell us that ethnicity is a new word in the English language. Although...

The Ethnicity Reader: Nationalism. Multiculturalism and Migration.(Review)
March 22, 1999... Edited by Montserrat Guibernau and John Rex. Maiden, Massachusetts: Blackwell Publishers, 1997. x + 336 pp. Notes, references, index. $54.95 (cloth); $24.95 (paper). The first three of these books tell us that ethnicity is a new word in...

Ethnicity.(Review)
March 22, 1999... Edited by John Hutchinson and Anthony D. Smith. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. xviii + 448 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $18.95. The first three of these books tell us that ethnicity is a new word in the English language....

Identity, Community, and Pluralism in American Life.(Review)
March 22, 1999... Edited by William C. Fischer, David A. Gerber, Jorge M. Guitart, and Maxine S. Seller. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. xv + 316 pp. $51.00 (cloth); $20.95 (paper). The first three of these books tell us that ethnicity is a new word...

Local versus broad-gauged history: a review of three Jewish urban experiences.
March 22, 1999... It may be true that all politics are local, but it does not follow that all history is local. The relationship between the micro and macro of history is intertwined in a more causal way. The histories of small agencies, social clubs,...

The Jews of Chicago: From Shtetl to Suburb.(Review)
March 22, 1999... By Irving Cutler. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1996. xix + pp. Illustrations and index. $29.95. It may be true that all politics are local, but it does not follow that all history is local. The relationship between the micro and...

The Jews of Boston.(Review)
March 22, 1999... Edited by Jonathon D. Sarna and Ellen Smith. Boston: Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston, 1995, xiii + 354 pp. Illustrations and index. $65.00. It may be true that all politics are local, but it does not follow that all...

Zion in the Valley: The Jewish Community of St. Louis, vol. 1.(Review)
March 22, 1999... vol. 1. By Walter Ehrlich. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1997. xiii + 441 pp., Illustrations and index. $35.95. It may be true that all politics are local, but it does not follow that all history is local. The relationship between...

Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in the United States: Inequality, Group Conflict, and Power.(Review)
March 22, 1999... By Joseph F. Healey. Revised, abridged edition. Thousand Oaks, California: Pine Forge Press, 1997. 312 pp. Photo essay, tables, bibliography, and index. $51.95 (cloth); $31.95 (paper). Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in the United States is an...

Immigrant Experiences: Personal Narrative and Psychological Analysis.(Review)
March 22, 1999... Edited by Paul H. Elovitz and Charlotte Kahn. Cranbury, New Jersey: Farleigh Dickinson University Press, 1997. 289 pp. Notes and index. $43.50. Immigrant Experiences: Personal Narrative and Psychological Analysis is a collection of...

Race, Ethnicity and Gender in Early Twentieth-Century American Socialism.(Review)
March 22, 1999... Edited by Sally M. Miller. New York and London: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1996. xvi + 303 pp. Bibliographic essay and index. $66.00. This volume is part of the recent scholarly reexamination of the American left's historical relationship to...

Indians and Indian Agents: The Origins of the Reservation System in California, 1849-1852.(Review)
March 22, 1999... By George Harwood Phillips. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997. xviii + 238 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $27.95. Beginning with the publication in 1975 of Chiefs and Challengers: Indian Resistance and...

The Birth of Whiteness: Race and the Emergence of U.S. Cinema.(Review)
March 22, 1999... Edited by Daniel Bernardi. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1996. 376 pp. $50.00 (cloth); $18.95 (paper). In addition to their ethnic themes, all that the three books reviewed here have in common is that they deal with...

Black Film/White Money.(Review)
March 22, 1999... By Jesse Algeron Rhines. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1996. 196 pp. $48.00 (cloth); $17.95 (paper). In addition to their ethnic themes, all that the three books reviewed here have in common is that they deal with...

Hollywood's Indian: The Portrayal of the Native American in Film.(Review)
March 22, 1999... Edited by Peter C. Rollins and John E. O'Connor. Lexington: The University of Kentucky Press, 1998. 240 pp. $24.95. In addition to their ethnic themes, all that the three books reviewed here have in common is that they deal with Hollywood...

Ready-to-Wear, Ready-to-Work: A Century of Industry and Immigrants in Paris and New York.(Review)
March 22, 1999... By Nancy L. Green. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 1997. xi + 426 pp. $59.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper). Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy; For the apparel oft proclaims the man,...

Peasant Maids-City Women: From the European Countryside to Urban America.(Review)
March 22, 1999... Edited by Christiane Harzig. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1997. 344 pp. Tables illustrations, notes, and index. $47.50 (cloth); $19.95 (paper). It is now nearly fifty years since Oscar Handlin's monograph, The Uprooted, was...

Unbound Feet: A Social History of Chinese Women in San Francisco.(Review)
March 22, 1999... By Judy Yung. Berkeley: University of California press, 1995. xiv + 395 pp. Map, photographs, tables, appendices notes, bibliography, glossary and index. $50.00 (cloth); $16.95 (paper). This book by Judy Yung reveals the richness of the...

Counting on the Latino Vote: Latinos as a New Electorate.(Review)
March 22, 1999... By Louis DeSipio. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1996. xii + 221 pp. Tables, appendices, notes, bibliography and index. $35.00. Louis DeSipio goes a long way toward informing those who have speculated about the political...

Kingdom on the Mississippi Revisited: Nauvoo in Mormon History.(Review)
March 22, 1999... Edited by Roger D. Launius and John E. Hallwas. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1996. viii + 282 pp. Notes, bibliographic essay and index. $36.50 (cloth); $16.95 (paper). Kingdom on the Mississippi Revisited: Nauvoo in...

The Viper on the Hearth: Mormons, Myths, and the Construction of Heresy.(Review)
March 22, 1999... By Terry L. Givens. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. x + 205 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. $35.00. Kingdom on the Mississippi Revisited: Nauvoo in Mormon History is a collection of fourteen historical essays, each written by...