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Language and Culture : Heritage and Horizons
A collection of reports from the working committees of the 1976 Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages. An overview of the history and tradition of immigration in the United States, and an introduction to ethnic groups associated with the three most predominantly spoken non-English languages in 1976 America : French, Spanish, and German. A geographic approach to tracing linguistic heritages in the United States. General descriptions of various immigrant groups, their historical geographies of origin, as well as the nature of their American communities and their cultural contributions to the United States in general. Also contains one section devoted to the significance of Classics and classical languages to American languages and literatures. Concludes with practical suggestions for incorporating cultural content into foreign language pedagogy.Tags Acadians, Boston MA, Brunswick ME, Chinese Americans, Cuba, Danielson CT, Demography, Education, Emigration and Immigration, Exploration and Colonization, France, Geography, German Americans, Haiti, Hispanic Americans, Irish Americans, Italian Americans, Jewett City CT, Language and Linguistics, Lewiston ME, Manchester NH, Mexican Americans, Native Americans, New Brunswick, New England, Old Town ME, Puerto Rico, Québec, Russian Americans, Scandinavian Americans, Southbridge MA, Spain, Spanish Americans, Spencer MA, Travel and Movement, United States, Waterville ME, Woonsocket RI -
Whose Church Is It? Ethnic Tensions and Church Organization in New England Catholic History
Journal publication of a brief presentation on the history of the Roman Catholic Church in the United States, with an emphasis on the prevalence of Catholicism among ethnic immigrant communities from the 19th century onward. Certain tensions between ethic Catholic communities, particularly between Irish and French Canadians that share a common geography. Historical events and conditions surrounding the ownership and governance of church buildings and property. Definitions of "corporation aggregate" and "corporation sole" as two systems of church administration. Offered in light of, and referencing, a 1990s controversy surrounding the occupation of St. Joseph's Church by its parishioners in Worcester, Massachusetts, in protest of its demolition. -
Worker City, Company Town : Iron and Cotton-Worker Protest in Troy and Cohoes, New York, 1855-1884
A history of the growth of nineteenth-century labor movements in the neighboring industrial cities of Troy and Cohoes, New York, on the banks of the Hudson River. The labor and market conditions, social contexts, and events specific to each city that shed light on distinct origins of labor protest. Cotton, textile, and iron industries, their economic growth, and their immigrant workers in industrial New York. The connection between immigrant ethnicity, immigrant acculturation, or "adaptation," in United States industrial cities, and the occurence of collective worker protest. (3) Contains a substantial bibliography of primary and secondary sources. From the author: "[This book] examines worker adaptation in two industrial capitalist societies maturing between 1855 and 1884, and describes how specific forces and institutions affected the timing, stages, origins, and character of protest therein" (10-11).Tags Acculturation and Assimilation, Albany NY, Business and Economics, Cohoes NY, Community: Customs and Social Life, Demography, Emigration and Immigration, English Americans, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Family, German Americans, Hudson River Valley, Irish Americans, Labor History, Mills and Mill Work, New York, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Economic and Industrial, Nonfiction -- History -- Labor and Social, Scottish Americans, Social History, Troy NY, Violence -
The Laborers of Manchester, New Hampshire : The Role of Family and Ethnicity in Adjustment to Industrial Life
An essay on how Manchester, New Hampshire, mill workers "[adapted] to industrial conditions" in the early twentieth century, taking special consideration for the relationships between work, ethnicity, family, and their influences upon one another (250). A certain history of the Amoskeag Corporation of Manchester - its programs of worker welfare and efficiency, their effectiveness, the populations of workers to which they were directed, and their identifiable ambivalence toward ethnic diversity. Worker agency in an industrial milieu: the mobility of laborers and their families between Manchester and other New England industrial communities; the importance of ethnicity and kinship ties in the workplace. The sources and impacts of the labor strike at Amoskeag in 1922.Tags Brunswick ME, Danielson CT, English Americans, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Fall River MA, Family, Gender and Sexuality, German Americans, Greek Americans, Irish Americans, Labor History, Lawrence MA, Lowell MA, Manchester NH, Mills and Mill Work, New England, New Hampshire, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Economic and Industrial, Nonfiction -- History -- Labor and Social, Polish Americans, Scottish Americans, Swedish Americans, Woonsocket RI -
Quebec in the United States : A Historiographical Survey
Historiographical analysis of writings on Franco Americans and an attempt to explain the different circumstances of these writings' publication. Observations on literature concerning the period of French Canadian migration to the United States between 1840 and 1930, and the development of Franco American communities. 1945 as a turning point for scholarly concern in this subject area among historians. Explanation of major, periodic themes in Franco American literature and the concerns from which these themes sprung. The transformation of the notion of "la survivance" over time, and the development of Franco American attitudes toward assimilation in the United States. Contains descriptions of many writings and their authors. Suggestions for the future of Franco American studies.Tags Acculturation and Assimilation, Biddeford ME, Danielson CT, Demography, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Fall River MA, German Americans, Holyoke MA, Irish Americans, Italian Americans, Jewish Americans, New England, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Historiography, North Brookfield MA, Polish Americans, Portland ME, Québec, Religion, Scandinavian Americans, Suncook NH, Woonsocket RI, Worcester MA -
Raisons qui militent en faveur du choix d'un évêque franco-américain à Fall River
Quelques arguments en faveur d'élire un prêtre franco-américain à l'évêché de Fall River, au Massachusetts. Considérations de l'utilisation des langues dans le diocièse, la démographie de la paroisse, et certaines autres facteurs culturels qu'un prêtre de certaines connaissances servirait bien.Tags Attleboro MA, Boston MA, Burlington VT, Community: Customs and Social Life, Dodgeville MA, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Fall River MA, Gender and Sexuality, German Americans, Hartford CT, Irish Americans, Italian Americans, Language and Linguistics, Maine, Manchester NH, Massachusetts, New Bedford MA, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Religion, North Attleborough MA, Polish Americans, Portland ME, Portuguese Americans, Providence RI, Religion, Somerset MA, Springfield MA, Syrian Americans, Taunton MA, Vermont -
Children's and Mothers' Wage Labor in Three Eastern U.S. Cities, 1880-1920
Article on the dynamics of class and ethnicity as related to the labor of women and children in the northeastern United States around the turn of the century. Statistical relationship between family and economy in urban, industrialized America during a period of heavy immigration. Emphasis on child labor as varying by type of family, ethnicity, and the relevant legal structures of different locales. A gradual replacement of children's wage labor by the employment of women. Statistics based on U.S. census data from 1880, 1900, and 1920. From the author: "The battle over child labor fought in the United States at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries pitted emerging understandings about children's well-being against those of the rest of the family....This article explores the variations in children's and mothers' labor in three very different settings: Pittsburgh, Fall River, and Baltimore between 1880 and 1920. It finds that child labor and education legislation resulted in a decrease in children's employment and increased the likelihood that mothers would take paid jobs."Tags African Americans, Baltimore MD, Business and Economics, Chicago IL, Demography, Education, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Fall River MA, Family, Fishing, Gender and Sexuality, German Americans, Government and Politics, Irish Americans, Italian Americans, Labor History, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mills and Mill Work, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Demography, Nonfiction -- History -- Labor and Social, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh PA, Polish Americans, Portuguese Americans, Sharpsburg PA, Slavic Americans, Youth -
Assimilation in American Life : The Role of Race, Religion, and National Origins
1960s study of social life in the United States with regard to ethnic and religious characteristics and their significance to processes of assimilation. Social group observation as a means of understanding cultural conflicts based on incommensurate "value-assumptions," and as a foundation to eliminating many sources of inter-group prejudice (16). Contains information acquired from interviews with officials from numerous American organizations concerned with intercultural relations. General sociological introduction to group structures, stages of assimilation and its subprocesses, and theories for occurrences of these in the United States. The American formation and presence of the "ethclass" - "[the characteristic sub-societal unit] based on race, religion, and, to a declining extent, national origin, criss-crossed by social class stratification..." (160). Sections devoted to African Americans, Jews, Catholics, and intellectuals as functioning American "subsocietal" structures. Hypotheses and suggestions for the future of cultural and structural pluralism in the twentieth-century United States.Tags Acculturation and Assimilation, African Americans, Community: Customs and Social Life, Demography, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, German Americans, Irish Americans, Italian Americans, Jewish Americans, Mexican Americans, Native Americans, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Ethnic Studies, Nonfiction -- Social Sciences, Nonfiction -- Sociology, Religion, United States -
One Nation Divisible : Class, Race, and Ethnicity in the United States Since 1938
A history of the United States between 1938 and 1978 that explores the categories and convergences of class, race, and ethnicity. Measures how these three categories factored into World War II, the Cold War, and the Vietnam War. Begins with the veritable end of the large immigration period in America, moves through the political climate of the 1960s, and concludes with the impacts of American suburbanization, the blurring of categorical boundaries of class and ethnicity, and the strange persistence of class, ethnic, and racial differences amidst the continual shaping of what it means to be a citizen of the United States.Tags Acculturation and Assimilation, African Americans, Asian Americans, Business and Economics, Community: Customs and Social Life, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, German Americans, Government and Politics, Irish Americans, Jewish Americans, Mexican Americans, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Labor and Social, Norwegian Americans, Polish Americans, Portuguese Americans, Social History, United States, Violence, War -
A Popular History of the Catholic Church in the United States
A single volume on the history of the Catholic Church in North America: from Columbus' arrival in 1492 to the French Jesuits and Native Americans of the 16th and 17th centuries, to the Irish of the 18th and 19th, up to the America of the period of the book's publication. A late-nineteenth-century perspective on the growth of Catholicism in America written by the Archbishop of New York. Some comments on the state of religious freedom in the early United States. Chapters devoted to Catholic male and female religious orders in the United States, as well as the state of Catholic education, art, print media, and other subjects concerning American Catholic expression. According to the author, published in the United States partly as an attempt to counter the decline of "public virtue" he saw evidenced in the content of newspapers and public discussion. From a review of the text published therein: "[This volume] gives a rapid and faithful sketch of the progress of the Church in North America from the days of Columbus to the present year [1876]..." (Manhattan Monthly, xviii)Tags Art and Architecture, Baltimore MD, Boston MA, Canada, Cincinnatti OH, Education, Emigration and Immigration, Fiction and Literature, German Americans, Government and Politics, Irish Americans, Italian Americans, Journalism, Native Americans, New England, New Orleans LA, New York NY, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Religion, North America, Poetry, Religion, United States -
Becoming American : An Ethnic History
A history of immigration in the United States, its national impact, and the effects of American naturalization upon immigrant ethnic identity. From the cover: "From the English settlers who founded the Jamestown colony to the recent refugees from Vietnam and Cuba, the history of American has always been tied to the fortunes of its immigrants. Thomas J. Archdeacon presents a fascinating account of the foreign peoples and cultures that for nearly four centuries have transformed America and, in the process, transformed themselves. Discussing Europeans and Asians, Africans and American Indians, he weaves their stories together, shows how they mingle and diverge, and relates their collective experience to the critical decisions we face in coping with the thousands of immigrants who continue to arrive yearly on our shores."Tags Acculturation and Assimilation, African Americans, Canada, Chinese Americans, Emigration and Immigration, England, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, German Americans, Government and Politics, Ireland, Irish Americans, Italian Americans, Japanese Americans, Jewish Americans, Labor History, Mexican Americans, Mills and Mill Work, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Immigration, Québec, Religion, Slavic Americans, United States -
The Transplanted : A History of Immigrants in Urban America
An overview of American immigration and ethnic histories from American cities of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Written by the Director of Oral History Research at the University of Indiana, Bloomington. From Indiana University Press: "A major survey of the immigrant experience between 1830 and 1930, this book has implications for all students and scholars of American social history."Tags Acculturation and Assimilation, Austrian Americans, Business and Economics, Community: Customs and Social Life, Croatian Americans, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Farming and Agriculture, Folklore, German Americans, Government and Politics, Hungarian Americans, Irish Americans, Italian Americans, Jewish Americans, Labor History, Mills and Mill Work, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Immigration, Polish Americans, Religion, Social History, United States -
Manchester : The Mills and the Immigrant Experience
Pictorial history of the communities in and around the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company's mill complex in Manchester, New Hampshire. The rise and fall of Amoskeag, in photos. A volume in the broad-ranging "Images of America" series of books. Previously published under the title "A World Within a World." From Arcadia Publishing: "This fascinating and moving book brings to life the industrial and immigrant experience which gave birth to Manchester in the nineteenth century and continued to shape the city's destiny well into the twentieth century. More than a hundred years ago, thousands of immigrants from Europe and Canada were drawn to the mills of Manchester by the promise of a better life. In stirring photographs and text, 'Manchester: The Mill and the Immigrant Experience' examines the aspirations, the struggles, and the everyday adventures of Manchester's immigrant families. Reaffirming the power of photography to move and inform us, 'Manchester: The Mills and the Immigrant Experience' creates a vivid picture of life during nearly a century of rapid industrial change. We join the bustle of Elm and Hanover Streets in the 1880s, witness children working at the mighty Amoskeag Manufacturing Company, enter a Greek coffeehouse in the early 1900s, get caught up in the bitter labor strikes of the 1920s, and meet unusual local figures such as the Hermit of Mosquito Pond."Tags Art and Architecture, Business and Economics, Community: Customs and Social Life, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, German Americans, Greek Americans, Irish Americans, Labor History, Lithuanian Americans, Manchester NH, Merrimack River Valley, Mills and Mill Work, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Local, Nonfiction -- History -- Pictorial, Polish Americans, Scottish Americans, Swedish Americans -
From Mills to Millennium : Documenting Social Change Through Oral Histories Among Three Generations of Franco-Americans in Manchester
Dissertation describing the historical development of a Franco American cultural identity through oral history interviews conducted by the author with sixteen Franco American people in the Manchester, New Hampshire region. Includes two parts: video recording of interviews and thesis text with historical background, select transcription, and contextualized analysis of interviews. Interviewees vary in age between 19 to 90. Includes personal historical introduction, historical background on the Franco American community in Manchester, and discussion of broad themes relevant to interview topics as identified by the author: memory, place, and identity as well as "family, education, religion, and discrimination"(iv). Discussion of "assimilation theory" in a Franco American context.Tags Acculturation and Assimilation, Community: Customs and Social Life, German Americans, Greek Americans, Irish Americans, Italian Americans, Manchester NH, Merrimack River Valley, Mills and Mill Work, New Hampshire, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History, Nonfiction -- History -- Economic and Industrial, Nonfiction -- History -- Labor and Social, Nonfiction -- Social Science: Anthropology and Sociology, Nonfiction -- Social Sciences, Nonfiction -- Sociology, Personal History: Biography and Oral History, Polish Americans, Religion, Violence -
An Exploration into the Health and Illness Beliefs of a Franco-American Community : The Description of a Clinical Reality
From the author: "The purpose of this thesis was to explore and describe the health and illness beliefs of a Franco-American community in Northern Maine. A major assumption of this study was that culture impacts all aspects of life and therefore determines how we define health and illness. The ethnographic inquiry provided an exhaustive description of health and illness experiences of selected members within the community and, through contextual analysis, allowed inductive identification of patterns within the group. Major themes emerged in the areas of health beliefs (functional and subjective health definitions), health behaviors (approach and avoidance behaviors), illness beliefs (susceptibilities and vulnerabilities), illness behaviors (home-care and cues to action) and clinical reality. The subsequent ethnographic record provided a rich description of the health and illness beliefs of a Franco-American community and allowed a glimpse into the clinical reality shared by its members."Tags Alcohol and Drugs, Canada, Community: Customs and Social Life, Death and Disaster, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Folklore, Food, French Island ME, German Americans, Health and Wellness, Indian Island ME, Irish Americans, Italian Americans, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Science and Medicine, Nonfiction -- Social Sciences, Old Town ME, Pownal ME, Religion -
Postnational United States Regional Hinterlands : Proulx's Ethnic Working-Class Communities in Accordion Crimes
Essay analyzing Annie Proulx's novel, "Accordion Crimes," according to the ethnic groups, working-classes, and cultural identities its characters simultaneously challenge and represent. A mid-1990s United States commentary on assimilation, acculturation, race, and place-identity in which this article's author situates the novel. The symbol of the accordion across cultural and geographic lines, within and across certain immigrant communities in the United States, in environments that temper American myths of upward mobility, and within musical communities of diverse qualities.Tags African Americans, Basque, Cajuns, Chicago IL, Creoles, German Americans, Immigration, Iowa, Italian Americans, Literary Works, Literary Works -- Criticism and History, Louisiana, Maine, Mexican Americans, Minnesota, Montana, Music, Polish Americans, Québec, Sicilian Americans, Viennese Americans, Violence -
Postnational United States Regional Hinterlands : Proulx's Ethnic Working-Class Communities in Accordion Crimes
Essay analyzing Annie Proulx's novel, "Accordion Crimes," according to the ethnic groups, working-classes, and cultural identities its characters simultaneously challenge and represent. A mid-1990s United States commentary on assimilation, acculturation, race, and place-identity in which this article's author situates the novel. The symbol of the accordion across cultural and geographic lines, within and across certain immigrant communities in the United States, in environments that temper American myths of upward mobility, and within musical communities of diverse qualities.Tags African Americans, Basque, Cajuns, Chicago IL, Creoles, German Americans, Immigration, Iowa, Italian Americans, Literary Works, Literary Works -- Criticism and History, Louisiana, Maine, Mexican Americans, Minnesota, Montana, Music, Polish Americans, Québec, Sicilian Americans, Viennese Americans, Violence