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.

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.

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.

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.

African American History Reconsidered

African American History Reconsidered
Author: Pero Gaglo Dagbovie
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2010
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0252077016

This volume establishes new perspectives on African American history. The author discusses a wide range of issues and themes for understanding and analyzing African American history, the 20th century African American historical enterprise, and the teaching of African American history for the 21st century.

The Ethnic Dimension in American Society

The Ethnic Dimension in American Society
Author: Salvatore John LaGumina
Publisher:
Total Pages: 382
Release: 1974
Genre: Minorities
ISBN:

Covers immigration from the Colonial period to 1975. Covers ethnic groups from Western Europe, Asia, Eastern Europe, Mediterranean People, Native Americans, Mexicans, Puerto Ricas, Cubans, Virgin Islanders, Haitians, and has a chapter on the Black Man's experience.

Kindred by Choice

Kindred by Choice
Author: H. Glenn Penny
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Total Pages: 393
Release: 2013-08-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 1469607654

How do we explain the persistent preoccupation with American Indians in Germany and the staggering numbers of Germans one encounters as visitors to Indian country? As H. Glenn Penny demonstrates, that preoccupation is rooted in an affinity for American Indians that has permeated German cultures for two centuries. This affinity stems directly from German polycentrism, notions of tribalism, a devotion to resistance, a longing for freedom, and a melancholy sense of shared fate. Locating the origins of the fascination for Indian life in the transatlantic world of German cultures in the nineteenth century, Penny explores German settler colonialism in the American Midwest, the rise and fall of German America, and the transnational worlds of American Indian performers. As he traces this phenomenon through the twentieth century, Penny engages debates about race, masculinity, comparative genocides, and American Indians' reactions to Germans' interests in them. He also assesses what persists of the affinity across the political ruptures of modern German history and challenges readers to rethink how cultural history is made.