The Ethnic Dimension in American History

The Ethnic Dimension in American History
Author: James S. Olson
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2011-09-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 1444358391

The Ethnic Dimension in American History is a thorough survey of the role that ethnicity has played in shaping the history of the United States. Considering ethnicity in terms of race, language, religion and national origin, this important text examines its effects on social relations, public policy and economic development. A thorough survey of the role that ethnicity has played in shaping the history of the United States, including the effects of ethnicity on social relations, public policy and economic development Includes histories of a wide range of ethnic groups including African Americans, Native Americans, Jews, Chinese, Europeans, Japanese, Muslims, Koreans, and Latinos Examines the interaction of ethnic groups with one another and the dynamic processes of acculturation, modernization, and assimilation; as well as the history of immigration Revised and updated material in the fourth edition reflects current thinking and recent history, bringing the story up to the present and including the impact of 9/11

The Ethnic Dimension in American History

The Ethnic Dimension in American History
Author: James Stuart Olson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 440
Release: 1979-05-01
Genre: Ethnology
ISBN: 9780312266141

Through association with others, individuals come to know themselves; and through placement among people of their own national, cultural, and religious kind they gain a larger American identity. This paradoxical relationship between individual and community has special meaning in American history. In neighborhoods and other forms of association, members of immigrant ethnicities along with racial and religious minorities have sought to preserve their distinctiveness against social homogenization.This book's 17 chapters cover the history of ethnicity in American society, from the first Americans before colonization up to the present day. Groups covered include Native Americans and Americans of varied backgrounds: European, Chinese, African, Jewish, Filipino, Japanese, Mexican, Puerto Rican, Korean, Haitian, Indonesian, and Muslim.

Lies My Teacher Told Me

Lies My Teacher Told Me
Author: James W. Loewen
Publisher: The New Press
Total Pages: 466
Release: 2008
Genre: History
ISBN: 1595583262

Criticizes the way history is presented in current textbooks, and suggests a more accurate approach to teaching American history.

A Larger Memory

A Larger Memory
Author: Ronald Takaki
Publisher: Little, Brown
Total Pages: 384
Release: 1998-09-23
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780316831697

A sweeping yet intimate history of the diverse individuals who, together, make up America. Ronald Takaki uses letters, diaries & oral histories to share their stories. Workers, immigrants, shopkeepers, women, children & others, their lives often separated by ethnic borders, speak side by side as Takaki frames their voices with his own text.

Families and Freedom

Families and Freedom
Author: Ira Berlin
Publisher: The New Press
Total Pages: 282
Release: 1997
Genre: History
ISBN: 1565844408

Through the dramatic and moving letters and testimony of freed slaves, "Families and Freedom" tells the story of the remaking of the black family during the tumultuous years of the Civil War era. By the editors of the award-winning "Free at Last". 36 illustrations.

The Social and Ethnic Dimensions of Matthean Salvation History

The Social and Ethnic Dimensions of Matthean Salvation History
Author: Amy-Jill Levine
Publisher:
Total Pages: 348
Release: 1988
Genre: Religion
ISBN:

This study seeks to redress the methodologically questionable, and often implicitly anti-Jewish, technique of negatively valuing the exclusivity logion, and then assigning it to narrow Jewish-Christian sources incompatible with Matthew's own outlook.

Fit to be Citizens?

Fit to be Citizens?
Author: Natalia Molina
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 302
Release: 2006
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780520246485

Shows how science and public health shaped the meaning of race in the early twentieth century. Examining the experiences of Mexican, Japanese, and Chinese immigrants in Los Angeles, this book illustrates the ways health officials used complexly constructed concerns about public health to demean, diminish, discipline, and define racial groups.

Getting Real About Race

Getting Real About Race
Author: Stephanie M. McClure
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Total Pages: 388
Release: 2017-08-24
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1506339328

Getting Real About Race is an edited collection of short essays that address the most common stereotypes and misconceptions about race held by students, and by many in the United States, in general.

The Global Dimensions of Irish Identity

The Global Dimensions of Irish Identity
Author: Cian T. McMahon
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Total Pages: 255
Release: 2015-04-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 1469620111

Though Ireland is a relatively small island on the northeastern fringe of the Atlantic, 70 million people worldwide--including some 45 million in the United States--claim it as their ancestral home. In this wide-ranging, ambitious book, Cian T. McMahon explores the nineteenth-century roots of this transnational identity. Between 1840 and 1880, 4.5 million people left Ireland to start new lives abroad. Using primary sources from Ireland, Australia, and the United States, McMahon demonstrates how this exodus shaped a distinctive sense of nationalism. By doggedly remaining loyal to both their old and new homes, he argues, the Irish helped broaden the modern parameters of citizenship and identity. From insurrection in Ireland to exile in Australia to military service during the American Civil War, McMahon's narrative revolves around a group of rebels known as Young Ireland. They and their fellow Irish used weekly newspapers to construct and express an international identity tailored to the fluctuating world in which they found themselves. Understanding their experience sheds light on our contemporary debates over immigration, race, and globalization.