Journal of American Ethnic History articles from March 2000

Journal of American Ethnic History archives from March 2000

"Our Hearts Burn with Ardent Love for Two Countries": Ethnicity and Assimilation at Chicago Holiday Celebrations, 1876-1918.
March 22, 2000... IN 1876 CHICAGOANS marked the centennial of American independence with two massive displays of patriotism. In the first, military and fraternal societies, led by the Second Regiment of the newly organized Illinois National Guard, paraded...

"Your Old Men Will Dream Dreams: The Italian Pentecostal Experience in Canada, 1912-1945.
March 22, 2000... In the last days, God says, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophecy, your young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams. (Acts 2:17) THE RELIGIOUS HISTORY of Italian immigrants in Canada...

Transplanted to the Rose City: The Creation of East European Jewish Community in Portland, Oregon.
March 22, 2000... IN AUGUST OF 1899, Congregation Talmud Torah in Portland, Oregon, placed an advertisement for High Holiday services in the American Hebrew News. The services, according to the ad, would be led by the "Reverend Dr. M. Mosessohn[ldots] with the...

LOSS AND RECUPERATION OF IMMIGRANT IDENTITY.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Ethnic Vision: A Romanian American Experience. By Joanne Bock. Niwot: University Press of Colorado, 1997. xxiii + 317 PP. Illustrations, notes, bibliography and index. $49.95. Hungarian Rhapsodies: Essays on Ethnicity, Identity and Culture....

BESTOWING PRAISE AND ASSESSING BLAME: RECENT WORK IN BLACK WOMEN'S STUDIES.(Review)
March 22, 2000... A Shining Thread of Hope: The History of Black Women in America. By Darlene Clark Hine and Kathleen Thompson. New York: Broadway Books, 1998. 355 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $27.50. Double Burden: Black Women and...

Beyond Pluralism: The Conception of Groups and Identities in America.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Beyond Pluralism: The Conception of Groups and Identities in America. Edited by Wendy F. Katkin, Ned Landsman, and Andrea Tyree. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998. 328 pp. illustrations, figures, tables, notes, and index. $49.95...

The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: How White People Profit from Identity Politics.(Review)
March 22, 2000... The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: How White People Profit from Identity Politics. By George Lipsitz. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1998. xx + 274 pp. Notes and index. $19.95. This book is an important contribution to a noble...

Dispersing The Ghetto: The Relocation of Jewish Immigrants Across America.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Dispersing The Ghetto: The Relocation of Jewish Immigrants Across America. By Jack Glazier. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1998. 245 pp. Tables, appendix, notes, and index. $39.95. At the turn of the century approximately two...

The Italian American Heritage: A Companion to Literature and the Arts.(Review)
March 22, 2000... The Italian American Heritage: A Companion to Literature and the Arts. Edited by Pellegrino D'Acierno. New York & London: Garland Publishing Co., 1999. 789 pp. $100.00. Arguably, the most significant change in immigration and ethnic...

Remembering Heart Mountain: Essays on Japanese American Internment in Wyoming.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Remembering Heart Mountain: Essays on Japanese American Internment in Wyoming. Edited by Mike Mackey. Powell, Wyoming: Western History Publications, 1998. 240 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. $15.95. Friends Mike Mackey and Steven...

Race, Rights, and the Asian American Experience.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Race, Rights, and the Asian American Experience. By Angelo N. Ancheta. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1998. xv + 209 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $47.00 (cloth); $18.00 (paper). A Filipino descendant...

Surviving on the Gold Mountain: A History of Chinese American Women and Their Lives.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Surviving on the Gold Mountain: A History of Chinese American Women and Their Lives. By Huping Ling. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998. xvii + 252 pp. Photographs, illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $19.95....

Closing the Gate: Race, Politics, and the Chinese Exclusion Act.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Closing the Gate: Race, Politics, and the Chinese Exclusion Act. By Andrew Gyory. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1998. xi + 354 pp. Illustrations, appendix, notes, bibliography, and index. $49.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper)....

A Patchwork Shawl: Chronicles of South Asian Women in America.(Review)
March 22, 2000... A Patchwork Shawl: Chronicles of South Asian Women in America. Edited by Shamita Das Dasgupta. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press. 1998. x + 239 Pp. Illustration, notes, and index. $49.00 (cloth); $19.00 (paper). Shamita...

A Nationality of Her Own: Women, Marriage, and the Laws of Citizenship.(Review)
March 22, 2000... A Nationality of Her Own: Women, Marriage, and the Laws of Citizenship. By Candice Lewis Bredbenner. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. xi + 294 pp. Bibliography, notes, and index. $45.00. The threat of loss of United States...

The Cristal Experiment: A Chicano Struggle for Community Control.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Arnoldo De Le[acute{o}]n The Cristal Experiment: A Chicano Struggle for Community Control. By Armando Navarro. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1998. vii + 438 pp. Map, tables, notes, and index. $59.95 (cloth); $22.95 (paper). ...

Slavery, Freedom and Culture Among Early American Workers.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Slavery, Freedom and Culture Among Early American Workers. By Graham Russell Hodges. Armonk, New York: M. E. Sharpe, Inc., 1998. xi + 185 pp. Appendix, notes, and index. $55.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper). This is a collection of essays that...

Exchanging Our Country Marks: The Transformation of African Identities in the Colonial and Antebellum South.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Exchanging Our Country Marks: The Transformation of African Identities in the Colonial and Antebellum South. By Michael A. Gomez. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. xi + 370 pp. Maps, tables, appendix, notes, and...

The Ruling Race: A History of American Slaveholders & Mistresses and Slaves: Plantation Women in South Carolina, 1830-1880.(Review)
March 22, 2000... The Ruling Race: A History of American Slaveholders. By James Oakes. New York and London: W. W. Norton & Company, 1998 (c. 1982). xxv + 307 pp. Appendices, notes, bibliography, and index. $14.95 (paper). Mistresses and Slaves: Plantation...

Jews and the American Slave Trade.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Jews and the American Slave Trade. By Saul S. Friedman. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Transaction Publishers, 1998. 326 pp. Tables, notes, and index. $34.95. Jews and the American Slave Trade responds to the accusation that Jews dominated the...

Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas. By Sylviane A. Diouf New York: New York University Press, 1998. ix + 253 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $18.50. Representatives of the subjects of this wide-ranging and...

Indians in the United States and Canada: A Comparative History.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Indians in the United States and Canada: A Comparative History. By Roger L. Nichols. Lincoln: The University of Nebraska Press, 1998. xvii + 383 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $60.00. Roger Nichols makes it clear...

Readings in American Indian Law: Recalling the Rhythm of Survival.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Readings in American Indian Law: Recalling the Rhythm of Survival. Edited by Jo Carillo. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1998. xiii + 353 pp. Notes and index. $69.95 (cloth); $29.95 (paper). Federal Indian law has the twofold purpose...

Contemporary Native American Political Issues.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Contemporary Native American Political Issues. Edited by Troy Johnson. Contemporary Native American Communities, v. 2. Walnut Creek, California. AltaMira Press, 1999. 323 pp. Tables, notes, and index. $24.95. Contemporary Native American...

Holding Aloft the Banner of Ethiopia: Caribbean Radicalism in Early Twentieth-Century America.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Holding Aloft the Banner of Ethiopia: Caribbean Radicalism in Early Twentieth- Century America. By Winston James. London and New York: Verso, 1998. x + 291 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, appendices, notes, bibliography, and index. $27.00. ...

Burning Valley.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Burning Valley. By Phillip Bonosky, with an introduction by Alan Wald. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998. xxxv + 288. Originally published in 1953. $15.95. Burning Valley, originally published in 1953, appears now in the "Radical...

A Nation of Immigrants: Women, Workers and Communities in Canadian History, 1840s-1960s.(Review)
March 22, 2000... A Nation of Immigrants: Women, Workers and Communities in Canadian History, 1840s-1960s. Edited by Franca Iacovetta, with Paula Draper and Robert Ventresca. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998. xiv + 513 pp. $60.00 (cloth); $29.95...

Heritage on Stage: The Invention of Ethnic Place in America's Little Switzerland.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Heritage on Stage: The Invention of Ethnic Place in America's Little Switzerland. By Steven D. Hoelscher. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1998. xix + 327 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $57.95 (cloth);...

The Wisconsin Frontier.(Review)
March 22, 2000... The Wisconsin Frontier. By Mark Wyman. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1998. xviii + 336 pp. Maps, illustrations, bibliographic essay, and index. $29.95. Mark Wyman's The Wisconsin Frontier fills a much needed gap...