Journal of American Ethnic History articles from September 1999

Journal of American Ethnic History archives from September 1999

"To Sing Out the Future of Our Beloved Fatherland" Choral Nationalism and The Polish Singers Alliance of America, 1889-1939.
September 22, 1999... ON 30 MAY 1995, the New York Times reviewed a performance by the internationally known composer Henryk Gorecki. Apart from the music, what brought Gorecki to New York intrigued the reviewer. The composer, who has declined invitations from...

The Rise of Recorded Tejano Music in the Post-World War II Years, 1946-1964.
September 22, 1999... DURING THE WAR YEARS from 1941 to 1945, all types of Tejano music recordings were halted due, in large part, to the shortage of materials for the making of records and to the major record companies' abandonment of regional music. These...

A Transatlantic Reform: Boston's Port Protection Program and Irish Women Immigrants.
September 22, 1999... HISTORICALLY, UNDER UNITED STATES immigration and citizenship laws and policies, women have been treated differently from men. In the nineteenth century, for example, the Page Law effectively curtailed Chinese women's immigration. The 1922...

EARLY MODERN SLAVERY IN THE 1990s.(Review)
September 22, 1999... The Making of New World Slavery From the Baroque to the Modern, 1492-1800. By Robin Blackburn. London: Verso Books, 1997. vi + 602 pp. Maps, notes, illustrations, and index. [pounds]30 Questioning Slavery. By James Walvin. London and New...

HOW DO YOU SAY "HONEY" IN MEXAMERICA?
September 22, 1999... Myths, Misdeeds, and Misunderstandings: The Roots of Conflict in U.S.-Mexican Relations. Edited by Jaime E. Rodriguez and Kathyrn Vincent. Wilmington, Delaware: Scholarly Resources Inc., 1997. iii + 278 pp. Maps, notes, bibliography, and index....

Musics of Multicultural America: A Study of Twelve Musical Communities.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Musics of Multicultural America: A Study of Twelve Musical Communities. Edited by Kip Lornell and Anne K. Rasmussen. New York: Schirmer Books, 1997. xii + 348 pp. Illustrations and index. $35.00. Compact disk with 27 musical selections,...

Case Studies in Diversity: Refugees in America in the 1990s.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Case Studies in Diversity: Refugees in America in the 1990s. Edited by David W. Haines. Westport, Connecticut: Praeger Publishers, 1997. 308 pp. Tables, notes, appendix, and index. $24.95. Case Studies in Diversity is the first edited...

Tempest-Tost: Race, Immigration, and the Dilemmas of Diversity.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Tempest-Tost: Race, Immigration, and the Dilemmas of Diversity. By Peter I. Rose. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. xiv + 257 pp. Notes. $30.00. Over the past several decades Peter Rose has established himself as one of the field's...

Immigration in a Changing Economy: California's Experience.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Immigration in a Changing Economy: California's Experience. By Kevin F. McCarthy and Georges Vernez. Santa Monica, California: RAND, 1997. 195 PP. Tables, graphs, notes, references, and appendix. $20.00. McCarthy and Vernez's Immigration in...

The South Asian Americans.(Review)
September 22, 1999... The South Asian Americans. By Karen Isaksen Leonard. The New American Series, Series Editor, Ronald H. Bayor. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1997. xii + 193 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, appendices, notes, glossary, bibliography,...

The Korean American Dream: Immigrants and Small Business in New York City.(Review)
September 22, 1999... The Korean American Dream: Immigrants and Small Business in New York City. By Kyeyoung Park. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1997. xvii + 228 PP. Maps, illustrations, tables, appendix, glossary, bibliography,. and index. $14.95. ...

I Begin My Life All Over: The Hmong and the American Immigrant Experience.(Review)
September 22, 1999... I Begin My Life All Over: The Hmong and the American Immigrant Experience. By Lillian Faderman with Ghia Xiong. Boston: Beacon Press, 1998. xxiv + 262 pp. Illustrations, glossary, and bibliography. $25.00. This newest addition to the...

An Interethnic Companion to Asian American Literature.(Review)
September 22, 1999... An Interethnic Companion to Asian American Literature. Edited by KingKok Cheung. Cambridge, 1997. xi + 414 PP. Notes, selected bibliography, and index. $21.95. Asian American studies has come a long way to arrive at this weighty volume of...

American Jewish History: The Colonial and Early National Periods, 1654-1840.(Review)
September 22, 1999... American Jewish History: The Colonial and Early National Periods, 1654-1840. Edited by Jeffrey S. Gurock. Vol. 1 of 8 vols. American Jewish History. New York and London: Routledge, 1998. xiv + 486 pp. Index. $120.00. Complete set $1,275.00. ...

Central European Jews in America, 1840-1880: Migration and Advancement.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Central European Jews in America, 1840-1880: Migration and Advancement. Edited by Jeffrey S. Gurock. Vol. 2. New York & London: Routledge, 1998. 392 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $100.00. This collection of...

East European Jews in America, 1880-1920: Immigration and Adaptation.(Review)
September 22, 1999... East European Jews in America, 1880-1920: Immigration and Adaptation. Edited by Jeffrey S. Gurock. Vol. 3 in 3 parts. New York and London: Routledge, 1998. ix + 1295 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, appendix, and index. $320.00. In this...

American Jewish Life, 1920-1990.(Review)
September 22, 1999... American Jewish Life, 1920-1990. Edited by Jeffrey S. Gurock. Vol. 4. New York and London: Routledge, 1998. xv + 370 pp. Notes and index. $85.00. For some time now the distinguished scholar Jeffrey Gurock has explored the parameters of...

The History of Judaism in America: Transplantations, Transformations, and Reconciliations.(Review)
September 22, 1999... The History of Judaism in America: Transplantations, Transformations, and Reconciliations. Edited by Jeffrey S. Gurock. Vol. 5 in 3 parts. New York and London: Routledge, 1998. 1,375 pp. $320.00. The history of Jews in the United States...

Anti-Semitism in America.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Anti-Semitism in America. Edited by Jeffrey S. Gurock. Vol. 6, in 2 parts. New York and London: Routledge, 1998. xviii + 909 pp. illustrations, tables, notes, and index. $225.00. This is a competent, if not quite complete, collection of...

American Jewish History: America, American Jews, and the Holocaust.(Review)
September 22, 1999... American Jewish History: America, American Jews, and the Holocaust. Edited by Jeffrey S. Gurock. Vol. 7. New York and London: Routledge, 1998. xv + 486 PP. Notes and index. $110.00. The writing of Jewish history in America, once an...

American Zionism: Mission and Politics.(Review)
September 22, 1999... American Zionism: Mission and Politics. Edited by Jeffrey S. Gurock. Vol. 8. New York and London: Routledge, 1998. xv + 489 pp. Introduction to the series, preface, bibliographic references, notes, and index. $130.00. In conjunction with...

New Worlds for All: Indians, Europeans, and the Remaking of Early America.(Review)
September 22, 1999... New Worlds for All: Indians, Europeans, and the Remaking of Early America. By Colin G. Calloway. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997. xxi + 229 PP. Maps, illustrations, notes, bibliographic essay, and index. $24.95 (cloth);...

Ploughshares into Swords: Race, Rebellion, and Identity in Gabriel's Virginia, 1730-1810.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Ploughshares into Swords: Race, Rebellion, and Identity in Gabriel's Virginia, 1730-1810. By James Sidbury. Cambridge, 1997. x + 292 pp. Maps, appendix, notes, and index. $54.95 (cloth); $18.95 (paper). James Sidbury's Ploughshares into...

River Jordan: African American Urban Life in the Ohio Valley.(Review)
September 22, 1999... River Jordan: African American Urban Life in the Ohio Valley. By Joe William Trotter, Jr. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1998. 224 pp. $29.00 (cloth); $17.00 (paper). In River Jordan, Joe W. Trotter engaged in a novel...

Long Way to Go: Black and White in America.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Long Way to Go: Black and White in America. By Jonathan Coleman. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1997. viii + 452 pp. Notes. $26.50. Visit Milwaukee and see America, Jonathan Coleman suggests in Long Way to Go. The problem of race (the...

African Muslims in Antebellum America.(Review)
September 22, 1999... African Muslims in Antebellum America. By Allan D. Austin. New York: Routledge, 1997. 194 pp. Maps, illustrations, and index. $17.95. Islam in the African-American Experience. By Richard Brent Turner. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana...

Allah in the West: Islamic Movements in America and Europe.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Allah in the West: Islamic Movements in America and Europe. By Gilles Kepel. Translated by Susan Milner. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1997. vi + 273 pp. Notes and index. $39.50 (cloth); $15.95 (paper). Making Muslim...

Imprisoned Apart: The World War II Correspondence of an Issei Couple.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Imprisoned Apart: The World War II Correspondence of an Issei Couple. Edited by Louis Fiset. Preface by Roger Daniels. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1997. xvi + 299 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $19.95....

Undue Process: The Untold Story of America's German Alien Internees.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Undue Process: The Untold Story of America's German Alien Internees. By Arnold Krammer. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. 1997. xi + 209 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $27.95. In the "Introduction"...

Beyond Black and White: New Faces and Voices in U.S. Schools.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Beyond Black and White: New Faces and Voices in U.S. Schools. Edited by Maxine Seller and Lois Weis. Albany: State University of New York Press. 1997. xi + 328 pp. Notes and index. $53.50 (cloth); $19.95 (paper). Beyond Black and White:...

Challenging Fronteras: Structuring Latina and Latino Lives in the U.S.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Challenging Fronteras: Structuring Latina and Latino Lives in the U.S. Edited by Mary Romero, Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, and Vilma Ortiz. New York: Routledge, 1997. xix + 314 PP. Tables, graphs, notes, bibliography, and index. $24.95. ...

Imagining Miami: Ethnic Politics in a Postmodern World.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Imagining Miami: Ethnic Politics in a Postmodern World. By Sheila L. Croucher. Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia, 1997. X + 235 pp. Illustrations, appendices, notes, references, and index. $45.00 (cloth); $15.00 (paper)....

Our Lady of the Exile: Diasporic Religion at a Cuban Catholic Shrine in Miami.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Our Lady of the Exile: Diasporic Religion at a Cuban Catholic Shrine in Miami. By Thomas A. Tweed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. xv + 224 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, appendix, notes, and index. $35.00. Religion has always...

Minority Faiths and the American Protestant Mainstream.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Minority Faiths and the American Protestant Mainstream. Edited by Jonathan D. Sarna. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998. x + 377 pp. Notes and index. $46.50 (cloth); $21.95 (paper). In 1958 historian E. Digby Baltzell coined the...

Down on the Killing Floor.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Down on the Killing Floor. By Rick Halpern. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1997. xiii + 309 pp. Index and notes. $44.95 (cloth); $17.95 (paper). When the Institute for Juvenile Research sent Saul Alinsky down to Back of the Yards in...

Men and Women Adrift: The YMCA and the YWCA in the City.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Men and Women Adrift: The YMCA and the YWCA in the City. Edited by Nina Mjagkij and Margaret Spratt. New York: New York University Press, 1997. xvii + 311 pp. Illustrations, figures, notes, and index. $55.00 (cloth); $19.50 (paper). This...