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1 online resource |
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Introduction / David A. Gerber -- Worlds Apart and Together : From Italian American Girlhood to Historian of Immigration / Virginia Yans -- Sidewalk Histories / Deborah Dash Moore -- Coal Town Chronicles and Scholarly Books / John Bodnar -- Ethnic and Racial Identities : A Polish Filipina's Progress in Chicago and the Profession / Barbara M. Posadas -- From Back of the Yards to the College Classroom / Dominic A. Pacyga -- Why Irish? : Writing Irish American History / Timothy J. Meagher -- In Our Own Words : Reclaiming Chinese/American/Women's History / Judy Yung -- Ordinary People / Eileen H. Tamura -- Americana / María Cristina Garcia -- Meddling in the American Dilemma : Examining Race, Migrations, and Identities from an Africana Transnational Perspective / Violet M. Showers Johnson -- Ethnic Historians and the Mainstream : Shaping America's Immigration Story from Uncle Mustafa to Auntie Rana : Journeys to Mexico, the U.S., and Lebanon / Theresa Alfaro-Velcamp -- Coda / Alan M. Kraut |
| Summary |
<P style=""margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:150%"" class=""MsoNormal"">This collection presents eleven original essays by historians whose own ethnic backgrounds shaped the choices they have made about their research and writing as scholars. These authors, historians of American immigration and ethnicity, revisited family and personal experiences and reflect on how their lives helped shape their later scholarly pursuits. They address issues of diversity, multiculturalism, and assimilation in academia, in the discipline of history, and in society at large |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Immigrants -- United States -- Historiography
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Historiography -- United States
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Emigration and immigration -- Historiography
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Ethnic relations -- Historiography
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Historiography
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Immigrants -- Historiography
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Race relations -- Historiography
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United States -- Ethnic relations -- Historiography
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United States -- Race relations -- Historiography
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United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Historiography
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United States
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1306129575 |
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9781306129572 |
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9780813562261 |
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0813562260 |
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