ethnicity

Pieces of A Dream: the Ethnic Worker’s Crisis with America

To consider the interplay of near-poverty life and ethnic pride is the purpose of this volume. The essays prepared for this publication reflect a wide range of experiences and opinions. The language is different, sometimes scholarly and sometimes abrupt and...

Organizing the Ethnic Community: An Account of the Origin, History and Development of the Joint Civic Committee of Italian Americans (1952-1995)

Organizing the Ethnic Community recounts the efforts of one Italian-American organization to establish a social-action program in the Chicago Metropolitan area. It is hoped that this report may serve as a guide for other Italian Americans in other cities, and...

A Migrant Missionary Story: The Autobiography of Giacomo Gambera

This English translation of the autobiography of Giacomo Gambera (1856-1934) provides insight into his life. Besides recalling his reactions to specific events, Gambera included in his memoirs the details of everyday situations. Thus, although he was a community leader, his...

Italian Americans in the ’80s: A Sociodemographic Profile

On the basis of published and unpublished U.S. census data, this volume offers for the first time a comparison between immigrants and native-born, and Italians of early and late generation. Four specialists analyze in detail: demographic and cultural aspects, education,...

IMAGES: A Pictorial History of Italian Americans

The new edition of IMAGES has been expanded and updated with more than 60 photographs in full color. This beautifully appointed bilingual edition sets out to explore through the medium of photography the Italian immigrant and ethnic experience in the...

Ethnic Business Enterprise: Korean Small Business in Atlanta

The primary purpose of Ethnic Business Enterprise is to explain the tendency of Korean immigrants toward small business and self-employment. The secondary purpose of this book is to look at various minority business theories in light of the Korean case....

The Coming of the Arabic-Speaking People to the United States

What characterizes this book on Arab immigration and ethnicity is the author’s skill in tying together the general facts of Syrian emigration at the the turn of the twentieth century with the broader historical realities of Western colonialism and American...

The Columbus People: Perspectives in Italian Immigration to the Americas and Australia

This extraordinary volume contains the proceedings of an international conference held during the 1992 Christopher Columbus Quincentenary Jubilee. Focusing on the role of the Italian presence in the formation and development of countries in North America, South America, and Australia,...

Churches, Communities, and Children: Italian Immigrants in the Archdiocese of New York, 1880-1945

Churches, Communities, and Children tells two parallel stories. The first is that of the generations-long process by which Italian immigrants became Italian American Catholics. The second story is that of how the Archdiocese of New York adapted to its increasingly...

Chinese American Intermarriage

Chinese American Intermarriage is a sociological study of the phenomenon of intermarriage based upon the Chinese American experience in New York City. This book shows how family objection is the worst obstacle, how spousal relations are affected by cultural differences,...