Perhaps no segment of the United States population is more conscious of American ideals than the immigrants who journey here seeking opportunity and freedom. How have the multitudes adapted to a new culture while trying to preserve their ethnic identity as they pursue the American dream, and how has this acculturation affected their lives and changed the cultural profile of American society? This volume answers these questions by presenting essays that reflect the experiences of many diverse ethnic groups as they struggle to achieve a balance between assimilation and ethnic identity.
Issues specific to certain nationalities are discussed, as well as those that cross national boundaries--such as concerns over education, the role of women, and the realities versus the myth of immigration. Studying how first-wave European immigrants, their descendants, and the more recent arrivals from Asia, the Caribbean, and Latin America have helped to shape America's past and present history lays the groundwork for the formulation of new questions for the future regarding assimilation and acculturation within our maturing economy. These issues receive thoughtful attention in the work's closing pages. This new insight into the issues which naturally surface in an increasingly multilingual, multicultural country wil encourage debate and hopefully result in the emergence of a more united society.
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MICHAEL D'INNOCENZO is Professor of History at Hofstra University. Specializing in immigration and ethnic history and early American history, he is co-editor of William Cullen Bryant and His America. D'Innocenzo has published articles in American Historical Association Perspectives and the Journal of World Education.
JOSEF P. SIREFMAN is a Professor in the School of Business at Hofstra University. Specializing in collective bargaining, labor arbitration, and alternate dispute resolution techniques, he co-authored Managing Faculty Disputes. He has also published articles in the Arbitration Journal.
Introduction by Michael D'Innocenzo and Josef P. Sirefman Preserving Ethnic Identity Tulips and Blooming in Holland, Michigan: Analysis of a Dutch-American Festival by Suzanne Sinke The Paradox of Ethnicity in the United States: The French-Canadian Experience in Worcester, 1870-1914 by John F. McClymer Constructing an Ethnic Identity: The Case of the Swedish-Americans by Dag A. Blanck The Attenuated Ethnicity of Contemporary Finnish-Americans by Peter Kivisto Mobility and Ethnicity: The Case of Greek-Americans by Alice Scourby Group Politics, Ethnicity, and Italian-Americans by Frank J. Cavaioli The Construction of a Symbolic Ethnicity: Suburban White Ethnics in the 1980s by Mary C. Waters Some Varieties of Social and Cultural Experiences of Immigrants and Ethnics The Educational Alliance: An Institutional Study in Americanization and Acculturation by Joseph Dorinson A People in Print: Jews and Journalism in America by Kenneth Libo Edward Smith King's Joseph Zalmonah: The Romance of Immigration by Stanley Brodwin The World Well Lost: Women and the Problematic of Assimilation in the Fiction of Anzia Yezierska by Iska Alter Against the Grain: Willa Cather and the Myths of Immigration in My Antonia by Christopher Sten Who Were the Immigrant Women from Britain to the U.S.A. in the Mid-Nineteenth Century? by William E. Van Vught Sport and the Nineteenth Century Immigrant Experiences by Ralph C. Wilcox Sport, Race, and Ethnicity in the American City, 1870-1950 by Steven A. Reiss Similarities and Differences in the Response to Oppression Among Blacks in the Diaspora by Joyce Toney Transnational Identities and Cultures: Caribbean Immigrants in the United States by Constance R. Sutton Ethnic Challenges in a Maturing United States The United States as a Refuge Who Were the Displaced Persons? by Leonard Dinnerstein The Future of U.S. Asylum and Refugee Policy by Arthur Helton The Repatriation of Soviet Emigres by Mark Gibney The New Wave The Newest Americans: Report of the American Jewish Committee's Task Force on the Acculturation of Immigrants to American Life by George M. Szabad and Gary E. Rubin Immigration and the American Future by Philip L. Martin and Leon F. Bouvier Economic Effects of Recent Immigration to the United States by Gregory DeFreitas Index
