Journal of American Ethnic History articles from September 1995

Journal of American Ethnic History archives from September 1995

Remembering the immigrant experience in American culture.
September 22, 1995... Remembering is a collective activity designed to draw from the past details that will explain the here and now. In place of exhaustive or flawless renditions, people use history and memory to create mythical narratives with symbols and heroes...

M.B. Curtis and the making of the American stage Jew. (Jewish actor)
September 22, 1995... ON 16 MAY 1881, a comic melodrama entitled Sam'l of Posen. or The Commercial Drummer premiered at Haverly's Fourteenth Street Theatre in New York. With its story of the heroic antics of a cocky young Polish-Jewish immigrant "drummer" or...

Where have the Scandinavian-Americanists been?
September 22, 1995... AT THIS TIME of writing a decade has passed since the conference on "Scandinavians and Other Immigrants in Urban America," held in 1984 at Saint Olaf College. This symposium was notable in several respects, as will be seen. Among them was the...

Re-examining race relations in the United States.
September 22, 1995... Two scholarly and national studies of the state of race relations in the United States in the last several years conclude that, despite important changes and improvements, this issue remains as one of the nation's fundamental and perplexing...

Color, Culture, and Civilization: Race and Minority Issues in American Society.
September 22, 1995... Two scholarly and national studies of the state of race relations in the United States in the last several years conclude that, despite important changes and improvements, this issue remains as one of the nation's fundamental and perplexing...

Race and Ethnic Conflict: Contending Views on Prejudice, Discrimination and Ethnoviolence.
September 22, 1995... Two scholarly and national studies of the state of race relations in the United States in the last several years conclude that, despite important changes and improvements, this issue remains as one of the nation's fundamental and perplexing...

Minority Group Influence: Agenda Setting, Formulation, and Public Policy.
September 22, 1995... Two scholarly and national studies of the state of race relations in the United States in the last several years conclude that, despite important changes and improvements, this issue remains as one of the nation's fundamental and perplexing...

Keeping Faith: Philosophy and Race in America.
September 22, 1995... Two scholarly and national studies of the state of race relations in the United States in the last several years conclude that, despite important changes and improvements, this issue remains as one of the nation's fundamental and perplexing...

Immigration and Ethnicity: American Society - "Melting Pot" or "Salad Bowl?"
September 22, 1995... This collection of essays is obviously the published papers of a Hofstra University conference, with all the advantages and disadvantages this implies. The essays are wide-ranging in subject matter but uneven in quality and often...

From the Old Country: An Oral History of European Migration to America.
September 22, 1995... This latest volume in the Twayne's Oral History Series adds more than just first-person perspectives to our understanding of immigration. Six chapters follow the immigrants from their European background, along their transatlantic routes, into...

Swedish-American Life in Chicago: Cultural and Urban Aspects of an Immigrant People, 1850-1930.
September 22, 1995... Swedish immigrants and their children have left a remarkable imprint on the city of Chicago. In numbers alone, Swedes in Chicago in 1890 were the third largest ethnic group, comprising one-tenth of the city's population. Thirty years later,...

Skribent i Svensk-America: Jakob Bonggren, Journalist och Poet.
September 22, 1995... Swedish immigrants and their children have left a remarkable imprint on the city of Chicago. In numbers alone, Swedes in Chicago in 1890 were the third largest ethnic group, comprising one-tenth of the city's population. Thirty years later,...

ga till Amerika. The Swedish Creation of an Ethnic Identity for Worcester, Massachusetts.
September 22, 1995... Since 1981, the Worcester Historical Museum has assembled a series of exhibits on the city's ethnic groups. ga till Amerika, on the Swedes, opened in 1993. This book is its companion text. The authors were central to the exhibit's design and...

The Emigrants.
September 22, 1995... The Minnesota Historical Society wisely selected Johan Bojer's 1925 novel The Emigrants for their Borealis Books reprint series. This novel of Norwegian emigration provides great reading and a valuable means of understanding the motivations...

Ellis Island to Ebbets Field: Sport and the American Jewish Experience.
September 22, 1995... As indicated by the contemporary dominance of basketball by blacks, boxing by Hispanics, and soccer by the children of southern and eastern European immigrants, the history of American athletics cannot be understood without an appreciation of...

Americanization, Acculturation, and Ethnic Identity: the Nisei Generation in Hawaii.
September 22, 1995... Eileen H. Tamura provides an insightful thesis and analysis pertaining to the interplay of Americanization and acculturation as these two phenomena affected Hawaii's Nisei, second-generation Japanese, during the 1920s and 1930s. Tamura defines...

Institutional Racism: The Case of Hawai'i.
September 22, 1995... Racism, as Michael Haas is quick to point out, is not a word ordinarily associated with the Hawaiian Islands. Nevertheless, he' argues, the widespread notion of a paradise of harmonious ethnic relations in the fiftieth state conceals practices...

White Captives: Gender and Ethnicity on the American Frontier.
September 22, 1995... June Namias's book is the end product of a ten year project which began with two kinds of ignorance -- the author's ignorance of contact between European settlers in North America, their descendants, and aboriginal societies, and cultural...

The Invented Indian: Cultural Fictions and Government Policies.
September 22, 1995... There is no way to evaluate adequately a lengthy anthology, such as The Invented Indian, in the short review space allotted here. Consequently, I will list with an abbreviated commentary the most arresting among the fifteen collected...

The Pequots in Southern New England: The Fall and Rise of an American Indian Nation.
September 22, 1995... On 18 October 1983, the United States Congress formally recognized what the Mashantucket Pequot community always knew, that they were members of an American Indian tribe nearly destroyed by New England settlers and their Indian allies in 1637....

Atlas of American Indian Affairs.
September 22, 1995... For three decades, Paul Prucha's scholarship has been one of the polestars of American Indian history. His books on federal Indian policy, the frontier army and humanitarian reform have been meticulously researched and widely praised. While...

Italian Prisoners of War in America: 1942-1946, Captives or Allies?
September 22, 1995... The subject of prisoners of war during World War II often brings to mind the 375,000 German POWs scattered throughout the United States. Monographs by Arnold Krammer and Judith Gansberg, as well as numerous articles, detail the German...

The National Integration of Italian Return Migration: 1870-1929.
September 22, 1995... Return migration has a long history in America, nearly as long as that of immigration itself, and literature on the subject has grown enormously in the last two decades. Dino Cinel adds to the study by focusing on one of the largest...

Immigrant Odyssey: A French-Canadian Habitant in New England, A bilingual edition of "Histoire d'un enfant pauvre."
September 22, 1995... In 1909 Felix Albert, an illiterate French Canadian residing in Lowell, Massachusetts, dictated, in French, his autobiography to an anonymous transcriber, possibly a priest. Always a "man on the make," one of Albert's motivations in...

Beyond the Pale: White Women, Racism and History.
September 22, 1995... In Beyond the Pale, Vron Ware, a British journalist, pursues two themes: "the need to perceive white femininity as a historically constructed concept" and "the urgency of understanding how feminism has developed as a political movement in a...

The Klan Unmasked.
September 22, 1995... In The Klan Unmasked, originally completed in 1956, Stetson Kennedy provided readers with an insider's view into the innermost secrets of the Invisible Empire. The Ku Klux Klan has evoked within American society emotions ranging from fear and...

Peoples of Color in the American West.
September 22, 1995... This well-organized collection of essays, focusing on Indian, Chicano, Black, and Asian experiences in the American West, fills a large gap in western historiography. Bringing together sixty-one abridged essays or sections from longer works,...