Journal of American Ethnic History articles from September 2000

Journal of American Ethnic History archives from September 2000

Trouble in the Colonial Melting Pot.
September 22, 2000... WE ALL KNOW the Founding Fathers have, of late, fallen upon hard times. Even so, it comes as a shock that Benjamin Franklin, long held up as an model of enlightened tolerance, should now be branded a racist. Historians of immigration are of...

The "Best Union Members": Class, Race, Culture, and Black Worker Militancy in Chicago's Stockyards during the 1930s.
September 22, 2000... FEBRUARY 15, 1938, was a tense day at the Wilson & Company meatpacking plant in Chicago's South Side stockyards district. That afternoon, eighty-seven workers in the Wilson's sheep-killing "gang" idled the plant's entire sheep division for...

"Lynch-law Must Go!": Race, Citizenship, and the Other in an American Coal Mining Town.
September 22, 2000... "We believe we should welcome every good citizen from the old world among us. But when the slum of scum of the old world lands on our shores and brings with him low, vicious murderous habits, and attempts to strike down the rights of American...

THE ATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE AND NEW ENGLAND SLAVERY: HOW WE REMEMBER, HOW WE FORGET.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Black Imagination and the Middle Passage. Edited by Maria Diedrich, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Carl Pedersen. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. xvi + 320 pp. Notes and index. $19.95. Disowning Slavery: Gradual Emancipation and...

PERILOUS PASSAGE: RECENT LEGAL AND ILLEGAL CHINESE AMERICAN IMMIGRANTS.(Review)
September 22, 2000... The Chinese Americans. By Benson Tong. The New American Series, Series Editor, Ronald H. Bayor. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2000. xiv + 264 pp. Illustrations, noted Chinese Americans, notes, selected bibliography. $39.95. ...

Trade in Strangers: The Beginnings of Mass Migration to North America.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Trade in Strangers: The Beginnings of Mass Migration to North America. By Mariane S. Wokeck. University Park, Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999. xxx + 319 pp. Maps, tables, appendices, notes, bibliography and...

A Nation of Peoples: A Sourcebook on America's Multicultural Heritage.(Review)
September 22, 2000... A Nation of Peoples: A Sourcebook on America's Multicultural Heritage. Edited by Elliott Robert Barkan. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. 1999. xv + 583 pp. Appendix, selected general bibliography, and index. $99.50. A Nation of...

Immigrants in Courts.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Immigrants in Courts. Edited by Joanne I. Moore. Foreword by James M. Dolliver. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1999. xi + 263 pp. Preface, introduction, appendices, notes, contributors, and index. $19.95. This collection of ten...

Made in America: Immigrant Students in Our Public Schools.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Made in America: Immigrant Students in Our Public Schools. By Laurie Olsen. New York: New Press, 1998. illustrations, tables, endnotes, and bibliography. $14.95. Laurie Olsen's Made in America--a sensitive and passionate portrait of...

Root and Branch: African Americans in New York and East Jersey, 1613-1863.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Root and Branch: African Americans in New York and East Jersey, 1613-1863. By Graham Russell Hodges. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. xii + 413 pp. Maps, illustrations, appendices, notes, bibliography and index. $45.00...

Racial Situations: Class Predicaments of Whiteness in Detroit.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Racial Situations: Class Predicaments of Whiteness in Detroit. By John Hartigan, Jr. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1999. xii + 354 pp. Illustrations, notes and index. $55.00 (cloth); $11.95 (paper). This inventive,...

The Presidency and the Politics of Racial Inequality: Nation Keeping from 1831 to 1965.(Review)
September 22, 2000... The Presidency and the Politics of Racial Inequality: Nation Keeping from 1831 to 1965. By Russell L. Riley. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999, xiv + 373 pp. Notes and index. $49.50 (cloth); $22.50 (paper). The nation's founding...

Divided Destiny: A History of Japanese Americans in Seattle.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Divided Destiny: A History of Japanese Americans in Seattle. By David A. Takami. Seattle: University of Washington Press and the Wing Luke Asian Museum, 1999. 93 pp. Photographs, illustrations, maps, tables, bibliography. $14.95. The first...

The Japanese Conspiracy: The Oahu Sugar Strike of 1920.(Review)
September 22, 2000... The Japanese Conspiracy: The Oahu Sugar Strike of 1920. By Masayo Umezawa Duus. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. 375 pp. Photos, endnotes, bibliography, and index. $55.00 (cloth); $18.95 (paper). The Oahu Sugar Strike of...

Doing What Had To Be Done: The Life Narrative of Dora Yum Kim.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Doing What Had To Be Done: The Life Narrative of Dora Yum Kim. By Soo-Young Chin. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1999. xi + 229 pp. Notes and index. $21.95. Personal narratives or life histories, whether they are autobiographies or...

Forever Foreigners or Honorary Whites?: The Asian Ethnic Experience Today.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Forever Foreigners or Honorary Whites?: The Asian Ethnic Experience Today. By Mia Tuan. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1999. x + 202 pp. Illustrations, tables, appendices, notes, bibliographic references and index. $18.00....

Storied Lives: Japanese American Students and World War II.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Storied Lives: Japanese American Students and World War II. By Gary Okihiro. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1999. xiv + 184 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography and index. $17.50. Gary Okihiro has presented an account of those...

New York before Chinatown: Orientalism and the Shaping of American Culture, 1776-1882.(Review)
September 22, 2000... New York before Chinatown: Orientalism and the Shaping of American Culture, 1776-1882. By John Kuo Wei Tchen. Baltimore, Maryland: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. xxiv + 385 pp. Illustrations, notes, selected bibliography, and index....

If They Don't Bring Their Women Here: Chinese Female Immigration before Exclusion.(Review)
September 22, 2000... If They Don't Bring Their Women Here: Chinese Female Immigration before Exclusion. By George Anthony Peffer. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1999. xv + 164 pp. Tables, appendix, notes. $35.00 (cloth); $17.95 (paper). The Chinese...

Orientals: Asian Americans in Popular Culture.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Orientals: Asian Americans in Popular Culture. By Robert G. Lee. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1999. x + 271 pp. Illustrations, notes and index. $27.95. Robert Lee's Orientals is an outstanding examination of Asian American...

The Soviet Jewish Americans.(Review)
September 22, 2000... The Soviet Jewish Americans. By Annelise Orleck. The New Americans Series. Series Editor, Ronald H. Bayor. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1999, 232 pages. Illustrations, bibliography, appendix, and index. $39.95. In 1987, Annelise...