Journal of American Ethnic History articles from September 1998

Journal of American Ethnic History archives from September 1998

To Call It Home: The New Immigrants of Southwestern Minnesota.(Review)
September 22, 1998... By Joseph A. Amato. Marshall, Minnesota: Crossing Press, 1996. vi + 120 pp. Map, tables, graphs, appendix, and bibliography. $11.95. Regions, Edward I. Ayers and Peter S. Onuf tell us, are not locations of distinctive cultural essences but...

City of Dust: A Cement Company Town in the Land of Tom Sawyer.(Review)
September 22, 1998... By Gregg Andrews. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1996. xii + 360 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, and index. $42.50. Regions, Edward I. Ayers and Peter S. Onuf tell us, are not locations of distinctive cultural essences but rather...

The Minds of the Middle West: Ethnocultural Evolution in the Rural Middle West: 1830-1917.(Review)
September 22, 1998... By Jon Gjerde. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997. xiii + 426 pp. Maps, tables, and index. $39.95. Regions, Edward I. Ayers and Peter S. Onuf tell us, are not locations of distinctive cultural essences but rather "places...

The Yankee West: Community Life in the Michigan Frontier.(Review)
September 22, 1998... By Susan E. Gray. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996. xii + 227 pp. Map, tables, appendix, and index. $39.95. Regions, Edward I. Ayers and Peter S. Onuf tell us, are not locations of distinctive cultural essences but...

Calvinist Incorporated: Welsh Immigrant on Ohio's Industrial Frontier.(Review)
September 22, 1998... By Anne Kelly Knowles. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997. xxiii + 330 pp. Maps, illustrations, figures, tables, appendices, bibliography, and index. $24.95. Regions, Edward I. Ayers and Peter S. Onuf tell us, are not locations of...

German-Bohemians: The Quiet Immigrants.(Review)
September 22, 1998... By LaVern J. Rippley and Robert J. Paulson. Northfield, Minnesota: St. Olaf College Press and the German-Bohemian Heritage Society, 1995. xx + 279 pp. Maps, tables, photographs, and index. Regions, Edward I. Ayers and Peter S. Onuf tell us,...

Making Malcolm: The Myth and the Meaning of Malcolm X.(Review)
September 22, 1998... By Michael Eric Dyson. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. xxvii + 215 pp. $10.95. Several recent works confirm the continuing trend toward portraying African Americans as actors, rather than victims, in the development of the...

Uplifting the Race: Black Leadership, Politics and Culture in the Twentieth Century.(Review)
September 22, 1998... By Kevin K. Gaines. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996. xxvii + 312 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $45.00 (cloth); $17.95 (paper). Several recent works confirm the continuing trend toward portraying...

Race Rebels: Culture, Politics and the Black Working Class.(Review)
September 22, 1998... By Robin D. G. Kelley. New York: Free Press, 1995. xiii + 351 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $24.95. Several recent works confirm the continuing trend toward portraying African Americans as actors, rather than victims,...

Sapelo's People: A Long Walk in Freedom.(Review)
September 22, 1998... By William McFeely. New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 1995. 199 pp. Notes and index. $11.00. Several recent works confirm the continuing trend toward portraying African Americans as actors, rather than victims, in the development of the...

From Chattel Slaves to Wage Slaves: The Dynamics of Labor Bargaining in the Americas.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Edited by Mary Turner. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995. x + 309 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. $39.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper). Several recent works confirm the continuing trend toward portraying African Americans as...

Between Two Worlds: Mexican Immigrants in the United States.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Edited by David G. Gutierrez. Wilmington, Delaware: Scholarly Resources, Inc., 1996. xvii + 271 pp. Notes, suggested readings. $40.00 (cloth); $16.95 (paper). Contemporary research on Mexican immigration flourishes at a time when Mexican...

Chicanas/Chicanos at the Crossroads: Social, Economic, and Political Change.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Edited by David R. Maciel and Isidro D. Ortiz. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 1996. xiii + 247 pp. Notes, tables, and index. $40.00 (cloth); $16.95 (paper). Contemporary research on Mexican immigration flourishes at a time when...

The Face of the Nation: Immigration, the State, and the National Identity.(Review)
September 22, 1998... By Keith Fitzgerald. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1996. xii + 285 pp. Figures, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $39.50. In Face of the Nation, Keith Fitzgerald chose United States immigration policy history to...

International Migration, Refugee Flows, and Human Rights in North America.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Edited by Alan B. Simmons. New York: Center for Migration Studies, 1996. viii + 328 pp. Maps, tables, and index, $19.95. This collection of essays, as Alan Simmons notes in his introduction, "concerns the ways in which North America is...

Immigrant America: A Portrait.(Review)
September 22, 1998... By Alejandro Portes and Ruben G. Rumbaut. 2nd ed., revised. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, 1996. xxxiii + 369 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $40.00 (cloth); $14.95 (paper). Focusing on...

The New Second Generation.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Edited by Alejandro Portes. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1996. x + 246 pp. Tables, notes, references (bibliography), and index. $19.95. Focusing on immigration of the 1980s and the 1990s, these books are a welcome addition to the...

Decade of Betrayal: Mexican Repatriation in the 1930s.(Review)
September 22, 1998... By Francisco E. Balderrama and Raymond Rodriguez. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1995. ix + 283 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $39.95 (cloth); $17.95 (paper). Decade of Betrayal offers novel perspectives...

All Rise: Reynaldo G. Garza, The First Mexican American Federal Judge.(Review)
September 22, 1998... By Louise Ann Fisch. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1996. xiii + 224 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $32.95. This biography is full of intimate details provided by Judge Garza, various family members and...

Anything but Mexican: Chicanos in Contemporary Los Angeles.(Review)
September 22, 1998... By Rodolfo Acuna. New York: Verso, 1996. xx + 328 pp, Maps, tables, notes, and index. $18.95. The Mexican in Los Angeles has been a popular topic for Chicano historians. Albert Camarillo, Richard Griswold del Castillo, Maurico Mazon,...

North to Aztlan: A History of Mexican Americans in the United States.(Review)
September 22, 1998... By Richard Griswold dei Castillo and Arnoldo de Leon. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1996. x + 239 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $28.95. The emergence of Chicano/a Studies in the last generation has given rise to...

Mexicans in the Midwest: 1900-1932.(Review)
September 22, 1998... By Juan R. Garcia. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1996. vii + 292 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $39.95. The period between the start of World War I and the eve of the Great Depression marked the large-scale immigration of...

Speaking for Themselves: Neomexicano Cultural Identity and the Spanish Language Press: 1880-1920.(Review)
September 22, 1998... By Doris Meyer. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1996. xiii + 279 pp. Appendix, notes, bibliography, and index. $29.95. Doris Meyer has written a comprehensive, pioneering work on the Spanish-language press in New Mexico from...

Conquests and Historical Identities in California: 1769-1936.(Review)
September 22, 1998... By Lisbeth Haas. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1995. xv + 279 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, appendices, notes, bibliography, and index. $16.95. This book is a significant contribution to the history of...

Sojourner Truth: A Life, A Symbol.(Review)
September 22, 1998... By Nell Irvin Painter. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1996. 370 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. $28.00. Taken together, these two books provide the basis for an understanding of the manifestations of slavery North of the Mason-Dixon...

His Promised Land: The Autobiography of John P. Parker, Former Slave and Conductor on the Underground Railroad.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Edited by Stuart Seely Sprague. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1996. 165 pp. Illustrations and notes. $20.00. Taken together, these two books provide the basis for an understanding of the manifestations of slavery North of the...

Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina: 1896-1920.(Review)
September 22, 1998... By Glenda Gilmore. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996. xxiv + 384 pp. Notes, bibliography and index. $ 49.95 (cloth); $17.95 (paper). Historians generally characterize the period between 1877 and the 1950s as one in...

Historians and Race: Autobiography and the Writing of History.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Edited by Paul A. Cimbala and Robert F. Himmelberg. Bloomington: University of Indiana Press, 1996. xii + 154 pp. Index. $25.00 (cloth); $12.95 (paper). This slim volume of eight essays in the form of personal testimonies, written by...

Changing Woman: A History of Racial Ethnic Women in Modern America.(Review)
September 22, 1998... By Karen Anderson. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. Notes and index. $35.00. Given the absence of women's voices in ethnic studies scholarship, Changing Woman is an important contribution to the literature. Unlike the "add and...

John LaFarge and the Limits of Catholic Interracialism: 1911-1963.(Review)
September 22, 1998... By David W. Southern. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1996. xxii + 420 pp. Selected bibliography and index. $45.00. John LaFarge (1880-1963) was a Jesuit priest who became a pioneer in the Catholic interracial movement during...

First Generations: Women in Colonial America.(Review)
September 22, 1998... By Carol Berkin. New York: Hill and Wang, 1996. xiv + 234 pp. Bibliographic essay and index. $23.00. At last, a readable synthesis of the first two hundred years of women's history in British North America. Carol Berkin presents us with a...

Island Paradox: Puerto Rico in the 1990s.(Review)
September 22, 1998... By Francisco L. Rivera-Batiz and Carlos E. Santiago. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1996. xi + 198 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, appendices, notes, bibliography, and index. $39.95. This book is a very useful addition to the...

Blackface, White Noise: Jewish Immigrants in the Hollywood Melting Pot.(Review)
September 22, 1998... By Michael Rogin. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996. xvi + 339 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. $24.95. A thesis-driven book can either be a walk in the park or an immensely frustrating challenge: If the reader sympathizes...

Science, Jews, and Secular Culture.(Review)
September 22, 1998... By David Hollinger. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1996. 216 pp. $24.95. This is a volume of eight essays written over thirteen years for different occasions, addressing the broad common theme of the interaction of...

Too Jewish? Challenging Traditional Identities.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Edited by Norman L. Kleeblatt. New York and New Brunswick, New Jersey: The Jewish Museum and Rutgers University Press, 1996. vii + 187 pp. Illustrations, appendices, notes, bibliography and index. $29.95. This book is a collection of...

Good-bye, Piccadilly: British War Brides in America.(Review)
September 22, 1998... By Jenel Virden. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1996. xii + 177 pp. Photographs, illustrations, tables, appendix, notes, bibliography, and index. $29.95 (cloth); $13.95 (paper). After World War II approximately 70,000...

Behind the Frontier: Indians in Eighteenth-Century Eastern Massachusetts.(Review)
September 22, 1998... By Daniel R. Mandell. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1996. ix + 255 pp. Map, notes, bibliographical essay and index. $40.00. In the past decade and a half, such scholars as Kathleen Bragdon, Jack Campisi, Kevin McBride, Neal...

Northeastern Indian Lives: 1632-1836.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Edited by Robert S. Grumet. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1996. xi + 347 pp. Maps, notes, references. $55.00 (cloth); $18.95(paper). In the past decade and a half, such scholars as Kathleen Bragdon, Jack Campisi, Kevin...

Native Americans in the News: Images of Indians in the Twentieth-Century Press.(Review)
September 22, 1998... By Mary Ann Weston. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1996. x + 189 pp. Notes, selected bibliography, and index. $55.00. Weston (an associate professor of journalism), in six chronologically ordered chapters, covers nearly eighty...

Tituba, Reluctant Witch of Salem: Devilish Indians and Puritan Fantasies.(Review)
September 22, 1998... By Elaine G. Breslaw. New York and London: New York University Press, 1996. xvii + 243 pp. Illustrations, appendices, notes, and index. $24.95. Perhaps no single event in colonial American history has captured the scholarly and popular...

From Time Immemorial: Indigenous Peoples and State Systems.(Review)
September 22, 1998... By Richard J. Perry. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1996. xvi + 302 pp. Maps, bibliography, and list of recommended sources, index. $37.50 (cloth); $16.95 (paper). Anthropologist Richard J. Perry has a well-established interest in...

Native America in the Twentieth-Century: An Encyclopedia.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Edited by Mary B. Davis. New York: Garland Publishing Company, 1996. xxxvii + 787 pp. Maps, illustrations, charts, graphs, tables, bibliographic listings and index. $24.95. This thorough, well-planned encyclopedia includes a wealth of...

Return of the Indian: Conquest and Revival in the Americas.(Review)
September 22, 1998... By Phillip Wearne. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1996. xvi + 240 pp. Illustrations, indigenous chronology, appendices, bibliography, and index. $19.95. In the year of the Quincentenary, the publicity surrounding the anniversary of...

The Politics of Minority Coalitions: Race, Ethnicity, and Shared Uncertainties.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Edited by Wilbur C. Rich. Westport, Connecticut: Praeger Publishers, 1996. x + 275 pp. Illustrations, figure, tables, contributors, and index. $65.00 (cloth); $22.95 (paper). Rich's introductory remarks, that "we are a multicultural and...

Shaping History: The Role of Newspapers in Hawaii.(Review)
September 22, 1998... By Helen Geracimos Chapin. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1996. xiii + 386 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $29.95. With the first of some one thousand subsequent mainstream, ethnic, and other specialty newspapers...

Holding the Line: The Telephone in Old Order Mennonite and Amish Life.(Review)
September 22, 1998... By Diane Zimmerman Umble. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. xvi + 192 pp. Illustrations, appendix, notes, bibliography, and index. $35.00. Many Protestant denominations have faced challenges from new ideas:...

Peopling Indiana: The Ethnic Experience.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Edited by Robert M. Taylor and Connie A. McBirney. Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society, 1996. xiii + 703 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, appendices, notes, and index. $39.95. Peopling Indiana tells the story of many of the peoples who...

Mapping Multiculturalism.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Edited by Avery F. Gordon and Christopher Newfield. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota press, 1996. 504 pp. Notes, annotated bibliography, and index. $24.95. This edited volume developed out of a 1992 conference on multiculturalism at...

Legacies of exclusion: illegal Chinese immigration during the Cold War years.
September 22, 1998... Exclusion informed the Chinese American historical experience in many ways. It codified Chinese as the racial "other" in America - unwanted, unassimilable, ineligible to citizenship. It justified the segregation and marginalization of Chinese...

Building the ideal immigrant: reconciling Lithuanianism and 100 percent Americanism to create a respectable nationalist movement, 1870-1922.
September 22, 1998... The unprecedented influx of Southern and Eastern European immigrants into the United States during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries sparked widespread discrimination against immigrant groups and brought intense public pressure...

The pedagogy of public history.
September 22, 1998... This section, which will appear occasionally, focuses on innovative teaching and outreach efforts in immigration, ethnic and racial history. Since its creation in 1981, the New York University Program in Public History has sought to use New...

Heartland pluralism: Middle Western ethnicities and mentalities.
September 22, 1998... Regions, Edward I. Ayers and Peter S. Onuf tell us, are not locations of distinctive cultural essences but rather "places where discrete, though related, structures intersect and interact in particular patterns. The region is climate and land;...

Slaves, workers, and race rebels.
September 22, 1998... Several recent works confirm the continuing trend toward portraying African Americans as actors, rather than victims, in the development of the Americas. They also appear at a time of heated controversy over the relative importance of...

An intellectual odyssey: Chicana/Chicano studies moving into the twenty-first century.
September 22, 1998... Contemporary research on Mexican immigration flourishes at a time when Mexican immigration represents one of the most controversial and passionately debated political issues in the United States. The English-only movement, a resurgence of...