Ethnic historians and the mainstream : shaping the nation's immigration story / edited by Alan M. Kraut and David A. Gerber.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kraut, Alan M.

Gerber, David A., 1944-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emigration and immigration.

Historiography.

Immigrants.

Race relations.

Ethnic relations.

United States--Ethnic relations--Historiography.

United States.

United States--Race relations--Historiography.

Immigrants--United States--Historiography.

United States--Emigration and immigration--Historiography.

Historiography--United States.

Physical Description:

ix, 208 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2013]

Summary:

Do historians "write their biographies" with the subjects they choose to address in their research? In this collection, editors Alan M. Kraut and David A. Gerber compiled eleven original essays by historians whose ethnic backgrounds influenced the choices they have made about their research and writing as scholars. These authors, historians of American immigration and ethnicity, revisit family and personal experiences and reflect on how their lives helped form their later scholarly pursuits, at times inspiring specific questions they asked of the nation's immigrant past They address issues of diversity, multiculturalism, and assimilation in academia, in the discipline of history, and in society at large. Book jacket.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780813562254

0813562252

9780813562247

0813562244

OCLC:

825198014