Journal of American Ethnic History articles from September 1994

Journal of American Ethnic History archives from September 1994

Africanisms in American Culture.
September 22, 1994... Scholarship on slave culture is now dominant in the study of slavery and a major force in all of American history. As striking as its ascendancy is the attention being given to the African component of that culture. Almost entirely ignored by...

Black San Francisco: The Struggle for Racial Equality in the West, 1900-1954.
September 22, 1994... To date there is scant historical writing concerning the intersection of western, urban, and African-American history in twentieth century western cities. Albert S. Broussard attempts to fill this void with Black San Francisco, a...

Destiny and Race: Selected Writings, 1840-1898.
September 22, 1994... Thirty years ago, in Negro Thought in America, August Meier identified Alexander Crummell as the leading black intellectual of the nineteenth century. Since then our knowledge of this fascinating and complex figure has increased beyond all...

The Dispossessed: America's Underclasses from the Civil War to the Present.
September 22, 1994... The author builds on her previous award-winning work on the history of black women in this examination of the causes of poverty among poor whites and blacks. In the tradition of Henry George, but without his programmatic recommendations,...

Racism and the Underclass: State Policy and Discrimination Against Minorities.
September 22, 1994... The essays published in this volume were first presented at a conference hosted by the Center of Rights Development at the University of Denver. This book is a welcome addition not in the debate about the underclass but in the debate...

The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class.
September 22, 1994... David Roediger's new book should be required reading for every first year college student. Not because it is always right, although I think he hits his mark more often than not, but because at a time when racial tensions continue to riddle...

Boston Against Busing: Race, Class, and Ethnicity in the 1960s and 1970s.
September 22, 1994... This book should put to rest the myth that northern resistance to desegregation was less overt and virulent than that in the South. Boston Against Busing is a thorough--and depressing--chronicle of white Boston's tenacious, often violent,...

Between Two Islands: Dominican International Migration.
September 22, 1994... Between Two Islands: Dominican International Migration is a useful case study of contemporary migration between the Dominican Republic and Manhattan. Grasmuck and Pessar succeed on several different levels. First, they dispel several glib...

Ethnic Groups, vol. 3.
September 22, 1994... Ethnic Groups consists of 100 newspaper and magazine reprints on African, Asian and Pacific, Latino, and Native Americans, together with Arab and European Americans. The Social Issues Resources Series, of which Ethnic Groups is a part, is a...

Unspeakable Images: Ethnicity and the American Cinema.
September 22, 1994... Lester Friedman's edited collection, Unspeakable Images: Ethnicity and the American Cinema, sets out to transcend the "image of the" books that have documented the representation of racial, ethnic, and sexual Others in United States film and...

Fiorello H. LaGuardia: Ethnicity and Reform.
September 22, 1994... The Harlan Davidson American Biographical History Series aims to provide readers with brief biographies of Americans who led important, interesting and instructive lives. Ronald Bayor's study of Fiorello LaGuardia is a fine contribution to...

Regional and Sectoral Development in Mexico as Alternatives to Migration.
September 22, 1994... Well-known among the provisions of the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act were an amnesty for undocumented migrants, increased border enforcement, and sanctions against employers who hire illegal workers. Less well-known was IRCA's...

Popular Narratives and Ethnic Identity: Literature and Community in Die Abendschule.
September 22, 1994... The Harvard-trained historian, Carl Wittke, once observed that he had devoted twenty years of his life to research thirty German-American newspapers. For Brent Peterson, who has studied one German-American journal, Wittke had the right...

Familie, Arbeit und Weibliche Oeffentlichkeit in Einer Einwanderungsstadt: Deutschamerikanerinnen in Chicago um die Jahrhundertwende.
September 22, 1994... A revealing moment in the last chapter serves to unite Christiane Harzig's work on German-American women in Chicago during the turn of the last century. The scene occurs in 1895, when a leading matron, Marie Werkmeister, is nominated to...

Czech Voices: Stories from Texas in the Amerikan Narodni Kalendar.
September 22, 1994... In this most recent book, the authors continue their exploration and study of Czech immigrant life in Texas. It is a delightful book, filled with memories and reactions to a new land. The book will appeal to the general reader and also to...

Painting a Place in America: Jewish Artists in New York, 1900-1945.
September 22, 1994... This is a book for a specialist, not necessarily an artist or an art historian but rather a person with a great interest in Jewish artists who exhibited their work in New York City between 1900 and 1945. Readers without this interest may find...

A Credit to Their Community: Jewish Loan Societies in the United States, 1880-1945.
September 22, 1994... The simultaneous publication of Shelly Tenenbaum's excellent study, A Credit to their Community: Jewish Loan Societies in the United States, 1880--1945 and Hannah Kliger's helpful edition of the WPA Yiddish Writers' Group study of New York...

Jewish Hometown Associations and Family Circles in New York: The WPA Yiddish Writers' Group Study.
September 22, 1994... The simultaneous publication of Shelly Tenenbaum's excellent study, A Credit to their Community: Jewish Loan Societies in the United States, 1880--1945 and Hannah Kliger's helpful edition of the WPA Yiddish Writers' Group study of New York...

Making Ethnic Choices: California's Punjabi Mexican Americans.
September 22, 1994... This is an extraordinary work. It is simultaneously an ethnography of early South Asian immigrant life in California; a model of fine-grained historical research using all manner of documents to reconstruct and interpret the migration flows,...

Race, class and color: the African American discourse on identity.
September 22, 1994... The great problem of the hour appears to be, by what name shall we be known? Are we colored folks as many of our white friends rather patronizingly dub us? Shall we confess to being Colored Americana? Must we accept the clumsy polysyllabic...

And the results showed promise ... physicians, childbirth, and Southern black migrant women, 1916-1930; Pittsburgh as a case study.
September 22, 1994... AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN WHO migrated from the South to northern cities during the great migration period chose to shun familiar childbirth traditions and utilized available medical services due to the influence of the Urban League. Black...

Seeds of destruction: homicide, race, and justice in Omaha, 1880-1920.
September 22, 1994... H. J. WALKER, the victim mentioned in the Omaha World Herald headline, had arrived in Omaha from Ouray, Colorado, a few hours previous to the shooting and had been drinking heavily all day. After entering Garrity's Saloon on Friday evening,...