Journal of American Ethnic History articles from September 1997

Journal of American Ethnic History archives from September 1997

No lamps were lit for them: Angel Island and the historiography of Asian American immigration.
September 22, 1997... Two tiny, adjacent islands in New York harbor, Ellis Island and Liberty Island, are home to the twin icons of American immigration. Although the Statue of Liberty, erected on what was then called Bedloe's Island in 1886, was intended by its...

"I'm fighting for freedom": Coleman Young, HUAC and the Detroit African American community.
September 22, 1997... Cold-war scholarship has focused a great deal of attention on the effects of repression on various areas of United States life. Numerous works have discussed the near destruction of the left-wing movement in Hollywood, the trade unions, the...

The transnationalism of the Italian-American Left: The Lawrence Strike of 1912 and the Italian Chamber of Labor of New York City.
September 22, 1997... In March 1923, a little more than three years after the Italian Chamber of Labor in New York City was established to facilitate the organization and education of Italian immigrant workers, its secretary Arturo Giovannitti called for a new...

Generation gap: Filipinos, Filipino Americans and Americans, here and there, then and now.(Review Essay)
September 22, 1997... Filipino immigration to America is marked by a generation gap spanning the years between 1934 and 1965, a gap of time and space epitomized in the three works under review. It is also marked by the "special relationship" between the United...

On Becoming Filipino: The Selected Writings of Carlos Bulosan.
September 22, 1997... Filipino immigration to America is marked by a generation gap spanning the years between 1934 and 1965, a gap of time and space epitomized in the three works under review. It is also marked by the "special relationship" between the United...

The Cry and the Dedication.
September 22, 1997... Filipino immigration to America is marked by a generation gap spanning the years between 1934 and 1965, a gap of time and space epitomized in the three works under review. It is also marked by the "special relationship" between the United...

Filipino American Lives.
September 22, 1997... Filipino immigration to America is marked by a generation gap spanning the years between 1934 and 1965, a gap of time and space epitomized in the three works under review. It is also marked by the "special relationship" between the United...

Out of Africa in body and mind: the black diaspora and pan-Africanism.(Review Essay)
September 22, 1997... The Lord shall cause thee to be smitten before thine enemies: thou shalt go out one way against them, and flee seven ways before them; and shalt be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth. - Deuteronomy 28:25 Just over thirty years ago,...

Africans in the Americas: A History of the black diaspora.
September 22, 1997... The Lord shall cause thee to be smitten before thine enemies: thou shalt go out one way against them, and flee seven ways before them; and shalt be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth. - Deuteronomy 28:25 Just over thirty years ago,...

The Black Diaspora.
September 22, 1997... The Lord shall cause thee to be smitten before thine enemies: thou shalt go out one way against them, and flee seven ways before them; and shalt be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth. - Deuteronomy 28:25 Just over thirty years ago,...

Imagining Home: Class, Culture and Nationalism in the African diaspora.
September 22, 1997... The Lord shall cause thee to be smitten before thine enemies: thou shalt go out one way against them, and flee seven ways before them; and shalt be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth. - Deuteronomy 28:25 Just over thirty years ago,...

History and Memory in the African-American culture.
September 22, 1997... The Lord shall cause thee to be smitten before thine enemies: thou shalt go out one way against them, and flee seven ways before them; and shalt be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth. - Deuteronomy 28:25 Just over thirty years ago,...

Ethnic archaeology in the nineteenth-century Midwest.(Review Essay)
September 22, 1997... These two Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Centennial Series studies, like most recent immigration history, emphasize cultural continuity from the Old World to the New in the immigrant generation. Though Beltman focuses on a single Dutch...

Dutch Farmer in the Missouri Valley: The Life and Letters of the Ulbe Eringa, 1866-1950.
September 22, 1997... These two Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Centennial Series studies, like most recent immigration history, emphasize cultural continuity from the Old World to the New in the immigrant generation. Though Beltman focuses on a single Dutch...

Contented among Strangers: Rural German-speaking Women and their Families in the Nineteenth-Century Midwest.
September 22, 1997... These two Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Centennial Series studies, like most recent immigration history, emphasize cultural continuity from the Old World to the New in the immigrant generation. Though Beltman focuses on a single Dutch...

The Cambridge Survey of World Migration.
September 22, 1997... Migration studies, in the last fifteen years, have become a well-developed field. The need for a synthesis is glaring. The need for a migration-approach to much of historical and present-day development is even more obvious when it is...

Postethnic America.
September 22, 1997... These two books are linked by the rapidly growing phenomenon of interracial marriage in the United States. The 1967 Supreme Court decision in Loving v. Virginia that struck down anti-miscegenation laws in sixteen states was a decision, as one...

The Multiracial Experience: Racial Boarders as the New Frontier.
September 22, 1997... These two books are linked by the rapidly growing phenomenon of interracial marriage in the United States. The 1967 Supreme Court decision in Loving v. Virginia that struck down anti-miscegenation laws in sixteen states was a decision, as one...

The Opening of the American Mind: Canons, Culture, and History.
September 22, 1997... Lawrence Levine's The Opening of the American Mind is a much-needed rebuttal to the host of conservative critics who have blamed the university, more inclusive curricula, and cultural pluralism for the decline of a shared culture and identity...

Identities in North America.
September 22, 1997... The evolution of a transnational North American community is a compelling and complex historical phenomenon, one we must aim to understand. Closer ties stir hopes and fears among Canadians, Americans, and Mexicans and produce anxieties which...

American Dreaming: Immigrant Life on the Margins.
September 22, 1997... Sarah Mahler has produced a vivid, analytically keen account of the sociopolitical shadowland inhabited by undocumented immigrants from the Americas. Based on observation and extensive interviews, American Dreaming is an arresting depiction of...

Asylum: A Moral Dilemma.
September 22, 1997... Rabbi Plaut, of Toronto, has written a sympathetic but unsatisfying book on the moral issues related to the granting of asylum and refugee status. This work is too superficial and broad to be of interest to specialists in international...

Post-1965 Immigration ot the United States: Structural Determinants.
September 22, 1997... A number of social scientists and journalists have been studying and reporting on the post-1965 renewal of immigration, its costs and benefits, and the fears and prejudices of those already here. Some of these commentators have also reported on...

The Immigrant Left in the United States.
September 22, 1997... American labor history had been written, until recently, as if the protagonists were English-speaking old stock Americans with an admixture of British and Irish immigrants. Not only did professional historians suffer from this ethno-centric...

From the Workers' State to the Golden State: Jews form the Former Soviet Union in California.
September 22, 1997... Since the mid-1960s close to 325,000 Jews have immigrated to the United States from what was formerly the Soviet Union. Despite their significant numbers, they have attracted less attention than have other recent arrivals. White and (for the...

Jews and the New American Scene.
September 22, 1997... The well-known collaborative team of Seymour Martin Lipset and Earl Raab, best remembered for The Politics of Unreason (1970, 1978), a pathbreaking analysis of right-wing extremism. in America, turn their attention here to contemporary American...

Jewish Agricultural Colonies in New Jersey, 1882-1920.
September 22, 1997... This is a worthy contribution to the history of East European Jewish immigrants' "back-to-the-soil" movement in America. Farm communities were established in such disparate locations as Utah, Louisiana, Oregon, and the Dakotas, but those in New...

Ethnic Labels, Latino Lives: Identity and the Politics of (Re)Presentation in the United States.
September 22, 1997... The rapid growth of the "Hispanic," or "Latino," population (that is, the aggregate immigrant and native-born population of Latin American descent) in the United States since 1965 has raised a number of important questions for scholars...

The Hispanic Condition: Reflections on Culture and Identity in America.
September 22, 1997... The rapid growth of the "Hispanic," or "Latino," population (that is, the aggregate immigrant and native-born population of Latin American descent) in the United States since 1965 has raised a number of important questions for scholars...

Slovenes of Cleveland: The Creation of a New Nation and a New World Community, Slovenia and the Slovenes of Cleveland, Ohio.
September 22, 1997... Cleveland, Ohio, is a city in which ethnic origins are taken seriously - to the point where official boosters often cite bits of local ethnic trivia. One of the most frequent pronouncements of this ilk is that Cleveland and its surrounding...

The First Polish Americans: Silesian Settlements in Texas.
September 22, 1997... Neither of these books is actually new. The Baker volume simply brings back into print, without even a new introduction, what is and will likely remain the standard work on Texas Poles. Struve's more narrowly focused work is based on a German...

Germans and Texans: Commerce, Migration, and Culture in the Days of the Lone Star Republic.
September 22, 1997... Neither of these books is actually new. The Baker volume simply brings back into print, without even a new introduction, what is and will likely remain the standard work on Texas Poles. Struve's more narrowly focused work is based on a German...

Twas Only an Irishman's Dream: The Image of Ireland and the Irish in American Popular Song Lyrics, 1800-1920.
September 22, 1997... This work is well organized, well written, and interesting. It is organized around four topical areas: (1) romantic or sentimental songs about Ireland and ante-bellum Irish Americans; (2) the development of the comic stereotype of the stage...

Nixon's Piano: Presidents and Racial Politics from Washington to Clinton.
September 22, 1997... The title Nixon's Piano comes from a March 1970 off-the-record Gridiron dinner program of Washington print journalists in which President Nixon and Vice President Agnew performed a piano duet that included the mimicking of stereotypical African...

Enduring Traditions: The Native Peoples of New England.
September 22, 1997... The last twenty years have witnessed a flowering of studies of the Native American experience in what is now the northeastern United States. It began when Francis Jennings, Neal Salisbury, James Axtell, and other historians cast new light on...

Historic Contact: Indian People and Colonists in Today's Northeastern United States in the Sixteenth through Eighteenth Centuries.
September 22, 1997... The last twenty years have witnessed a flowering of studies of the Native American experience in what is now the northeastern United States. It began when Francis Jennings, Neal Salisbury, James Axtell, and other historians cast new light on...

Ethnicity and Culture in Canada: The Research Landscape.
September 22, 1997... It is not difficult to understand why Canada's Department of Multiculturalism and Citizenship, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada would have commissioned this survey of the state of research on Canada's...

On The Way to The Melting Pot.
September 22, 1997... Waldemar Ager (1869-1941) was a journalist, an agitator, an author of some note, and a leader in the Norwegian-American community. As editor of Reform, an Eau Claire, Wisconsin, Norwegian-language weekly, Ager agitated and propagandized for the...