Immigration and ethnicity : American society--"melting pot" or "salad bowl"? / edited by Michael D'Innocenzo and Josef P. Sirefman.

SeriesContributions in sociology ; no. 97
Contributions in sociology ; no. 97. ^A4447
Contents Tulips are blooming in Holland, Michigan : analysis of a Dutch-American festival / Suzanne Sinke -- The paradox of ethnicity in the United States : the French-Canadian experience in Worcester, 1870-1914 / John F. McClymer -- Constructing an ethnic identity : the case of the Swedish-Americans / Dag A. Blanck -- The attenuated ethnicity of contemporary Finnish-Americans / Peter Kivisto -- Mobility and ethnicity : the case of Greek-Americans / Alice Scourby -- Group politics, ethnicity, and Italian-Americans / Frank J. Cavaioli -- The construction of a symbolic ethnicity : suburban white ethnics in the 1980s / Mary C. Waters -- The educational alliance : an institutional study in Americanization and acculturation / Joseph Dorinson -- A people in print : Jews and journalism in America / Kenneth Libo -- Edward Smith King's Joseph Zalmonah : the romance of immigration / Stanley Brodwin.
Contents The world well lost : women and the problematic of assimilation in the fiction of Anzia Yezierska / Iska Alter -- Against the grain : Willa Cather and the myths of immigration in My Antonia / Christopher Sten -- Who were the immigrant women from Britain to the United States in the mid-nineteenth century? / William E. Van Vugt -- Sport and the nineteenth century immigrant experience / Ralph C. Wilcox -- Sport, race, and ethnicity in the American city, 1870-1950 / Steven A. Riess -- Similarities and differences in the response to oppression among Blacks in the diaspora / Joyce Toney -- Transnational identities and cultures : Caribbean immigrants in the United States / Constance R. Sutton -- Whowere the displaced persons? / Leonard Dinnerstein -- The future of U.S. asylum and refugee policy / Arthur C. Helton -- The repatriation of Soviet emigrés / Mark Gibney.
Contents The newest Americans : report of the American Jewish Committee's Task Force on the Acculturation of Immigrants to American life / George M. Szabad and Gary E. Rubin -- Immigration and the American future / Philip L. Martin and Leon F. Bouvier -- Economic effects of recent immigration to the United States / Gregory DeFreitas.
General note"Prepared under the auspices of Hofstra University."
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 91006281
ISBN0313277591 (alk. paper)