Journal of American Ethnic History articles from September 1996

Journal of American Ethnic History archives from September 1996

Thomas and Znaniecki and the historiography of American immigration. (William I. Thomas; Florian Znaniecki)(Special Issue: The Poles in America)
September 22, 1996... The five volumes of William I. Thomas and Florian Znaniecki's The Polish Peasant in Europe and America appeared more than seventy years ago during a period of intense national debate over immigration and its consequences for American society.(1)...

Immigration history and migration studies since 'The Polish Peasant': international contributions.(Special Issue: The Poles in America)
September 22, 1996... The Polish Peasant in Europe and America stands like a light-house from the early years of research on immigrants and their cultures of origin. However, a light-house sends intermittent signals: sometimes the light is on, sometimes it is off. The...

Polonia and 'The Polish Peasant in Europe and America.'(Special Issue: The Poles in America)
September 22, 1996... ZNANIECKI, THOMAS, AND THE POLISH PEASANT Florian Znaniecki, the Polish co-author of The Polish Peasant, obtained a position as director of The Society for the Protection of Emigrants in Warsaw in about 1910, having completed his Ph.D. in...

Emigration from a communist country - both economic and political: a post-Communist perspective.(Special Issue: The Poles in America)
September 22, 1996... The intention of this essay is to point to a certain phenomenon, rather recent in the history of emigrations, and to stress the value of Znaniecki's method in its study. I mean the blurring of the boundary between economic and political...

To live amongst others: Poles and their neighbors in industrial Chicago, 1865-1930.(Special Issue: The Poles in America)
September 22, 1996... United States immigration and ethnic history often has revolved around the historical development of a particular group and its adjustment to American society. While nativist reactions have been explored, inter-group relations are often ignored...

Image, status, mobility and integration in American society: the Polish experience.(Special Issue: The Poles in America)
September 22, 1996... Barney Miller was one of the most popular television shows to emerge during the 1970s. When it debuted in January of 1975, amid a period of ethnic revival, the characters represented by its regular cast reflected a variety of ethnic backgrounds....

Polish Americans, 2d ed.
September 22, 1996... In 1976, Helena Znaniecka Lopata, daughter of University of Chicago sociologist Florian Znaniecki and herself an accomplished practitioner in the discipline, published Polish Americans: Status Competition in an Ethnic Community, a slim volume in...

Immigrant America: European Ethnicity in the United States.
September 22, 1996... The intended audience for this collection is unclear. Academic specialists will find some useful nuggets buried in the twelve essays, but even the most dogged researchers will read only the one or two essays pertinent to their labors, or scan the...

Nativism Reborn? The Official English Language Movement and the American States.
September 22, 1996... This pioneering study of the politics of language tests several hypotheses. They are that the official English movement is racist; that it emerged from ethnic rivalry; that it is class based; that it is political; and that it is broadly cultural...

Controlling Immigration: A Global Perspective.
September 22, 1996... This edited volume results from an interdisciplinary research project (1990-1993) based in the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies at the University of California, San Diego. Following the editors' introductory overview chapter, the book is divided...

Nationalism, Ethnicity and Identity: Cross National and Comparative Perspectives.
September 22, 1996... First a confession: it is probably unfair for me to review this text that clearly was not conceived by nor intended for historians. A collection of essays, overwhelmingly authored by political scientists and sociologists, it is steeped in social...

Immigration and Refugee Policy: Australia and Canada Compared, 2 vols.
September 22, 1996... Immigration and Refugee Policy: Australia and Canada Compared is a sprawling, two-volume work comprised of twenty-two chapters by over forty contributors from across continents and academic disciplines. This landmark study is a major...

Global Apartheid: Refugees, Racism, and the New World Order.
September 22, 1996... This is a collection of thirteen essays, of which seven were published elsewhere in the last decade. Not originally conceived as a single exposition, the volume is uneven in its treatment of issues and cases, and the text is occasionally...

Residential Apartheid: The American Legacy.
September 22, 1996... This collection of essays reads both like an overview of America's enduring legacy of racial, ethnic, and economic separateness and as individual case studies, offering the reader an empirical update on the extent, nature, and dynamics of the...

Race, Ethnicity, and Urbanization: Selected Essays.
September 22, 1996... Howard N. Rabinowitz brings together in this book his essays, articles and scholarly papers in the field of Southern race relations, ethnicity, and urban history, published in the last twenty years. Only slightly re-edited, these selections cover...

The Separate City: Black Communities in the Urban South, 1940-1968.
September 22, 1996... This study of public policy, politics, and planning traces the emergence during the mid-twentieth century of a "separate [black] city" in Atlanta, Memphis and Richmond, three cities with historically different political cultures. For reasons that...

The Bubbling Cauldron: Race, Ethnicity, and the Urban Crisis.
September 22, 1996... Ideally, an anthology is more than the sum of its parts. If there is enough resonance and complementarity among the constituent essays, then new and larger connections may emerge. This ideal is not easily attained in a volume dealing with race...

Family Ethnicity: Strength in Diversity.
September 22, 1996... In this work we are presented with a collection of twenty-one chapters written by twenty-three ethnicists, only one of whom is not university-connected. For clarification "ethnicists" (my term) should be differentiated from "ethicists," who hang...

Global Production: The Apparel Industry in the Pacific Rim.
September 22, 1996... Global Production: The Apparel Industry in the Pacific Rim casts its net both widely and narrowly, and with good results. This co-edited study, which comes out of a conference held in 1992, attempts to document and analyze the ways in which the...

Everything You Need to Know About Latino History.
September 22, 1996... "Most Americans know very little about their Latino neighbors, their culture, their history, and how they influence our nation's everyday life." So begins Himilce Novas' book in the Introduction (p. xii). The book is NOT about Latino neighbors in...

"Retained by The People": A History of American Indians and the Bill of Rights.
September 22, 1996... As American Indian tribes become more successful as business corporations entering capitalistic enterprises like the gambling industry, renegotiating mining leases, and launching other industries, updated information about their rights and legal...

Ethnicity and Sport in North American History and Culture.
September 22, 1996... With scholars in increasing numbers continuing to probe the saga of sport within the context of the North American multicultural experience, editors George Eisen and David K. Wiggins have provided a new resource of information concerning...