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Ils se souviennent, They remember : The quiet presence of New England's Franco-Americans
Article describing modern impressions of Franco American culture in New England, including recent and diverse efforts undertaken to preserve certain of its aspects - language, food, music, and others. Presents descriptions of how Franco American assimilation, and Franco Americans' attitude toward it, are sometimes understood.Tags Acculturation and Assimilation, Amherst MA, Barrington NH, Community: Customs and Social Life, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Food, Genealogy, Irish Americans, Italian Americans, Language and Linguistics, Leominster MA, Lowell MA, Manchester NH, Massachusetts, Mills and Mill Work, New England, Orono ME, Religion, Webster MA, Woonsocket RI -
When We Were the Kennedys : A Memoir from Mexico, Maine
Memoir from Mexico, Maine native and author of fiction, Monica Wood. Recalls the period of the author's youth around the time of the sudden death of her father. Her family's experience of the loss of its breadwinner in the 1960s. The shape of her 1963 mill-centered community and the diversity of people who inhabited it; portraits of the power of religion and industry among people in the towns of Rumford and Mexico. President John F. Kennedy's 1963 assassination - and the widowhood of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis - recounted in light of the disruptive passing of the author's father earlier that same year. -
Girls of Tender Age : A Memoir
Memoir of a woman growing up in the immigrant city of Hartford, Connecticut in the 1950s. Her French Canadian and Italian relatives, her childhood, early adulthood, and the processes of recollecting them. Divided into five parts: Mortality; Brain Jog; the Quest; What Goes Around...; The Future Is Now; followed by notes and acknowledgements. Alternates between stories from the life of the author, her friends and relatives, and the murder of a childhood friend by a Hartford serial child abuser named Robert Malm. The author's efforts at retelling the story of Malm's life, trial, and Connecticut execution, and their intersection with her life.Tags Community: Customs and Social Life, Connecticut, Death and Disaster, Emigration and Immigration, Family, Gender and Sexuality, Hartford CT, Irish Americans, Italian Americans, Italy, Language and Linguistics, Personal History: Biography and Oral History, Polish Americans, Québec, Religion, Vermont, Violence, Youth -
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 -
La stratification sociale du groupe ethnique canadien-français aux États-Unis
Analyse démographique du groupe ethnique canadien-français aux États-Unis ou dans la Nouvelle-Angleterre entre 1830 et 1950, utlisant des chiffres de la Bureau of the Census. Déscriptions historiques de l'immigration canadienne du Québec aux États-Unis; présentation des chiffres socio-economiques par rapport à d'autres groupes ethniques immigrants avant de 1950. -
Lewis Hine's Photography and Reform in Rhode Island
Article on Lewis Hine's photographic work for the National Child Labor Committee, its ties with the National Consumers' League, and the photographer's place among progressive and humanitarian labor reform in early twentieth-century Rhode Island. The child welfare concerns and women and child labor reform initiatives of Alice Hunt and others of the Rhode Island Consumers' League during that time. How Hine's photographs reflect the humanitarian concerns of the political organizations with which he was associated. Examples of Hine's Rhode Island work in the publications of the NCLC, and the ways in which Rhode Island evidence of poor working and living conditions became part of national conversations about child welfare and housing reform, immigration, and, as the author puts it, "the dignity of work" (49). Illustrated with black and white photographs. Includes a list of Lewis Hine photographs held at the Slater Mill Historic Site in Pawtucket, Rhode Island.Tags Chicago IL, Emigration and Immigration, Gender and Sexuality, Government and Politics, Italian Americans, Lonsdale RI, Mills and Mill Work, New York NY, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Documentary, Nonfiction -- History -- Labor and Social, Nonfiction -- History -- Pictorial, Pawtucket RI, Pawtuxet River Valley, Photography, Providence RI, Rhode Island, Social History, Warren RI, Youth -
Writing an Ethnic Identity between Worlds : Claiming and Maintaining a Franco-American Self
Historical trends, social dynamics, family systems, and psychological traits characteristic of Franco Americans and their communities. Examples from the author's life and family history; relevant psychological research; scholarship in Franco American studies. Observations of the psychosocial implications of the cultural notion of "la survivance," New England Franco Americans' dense communities, and their proximity to Canadian places of ancestry in Québec and Acadia. Includes descriptive content from interviews with several Franco American poets and writers: Beverly Matherne, Darrell Bourque, Jim Bishop, Rhea Côté Robbins, Denise Duhamel, Christine Gelineau, Chad Parenteau, David Surette, and Paul Marion.Tags Acadians, Acculturation and Assimilation, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Family, Gender and Sexuality, Irish Americans, Italian Americans, Language and Linguistics, Leominster MA, Literary Works -- Criticism and History, Louisiana, Massachusetts, New Brunswick, New England, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Essay, Nonfiction -- Ethnic Studies, Nonfiction -- Psychology, Nonfiction -- Social Sciences, Poetry, Québec, Religion, Webster MA, Worcester MA -
The Persistance of White Ethnicity in New England Politics
Article presenting data on voting patterns in selected New England towns that indicate, in a general sense, connections between ethnic origin and voting behaviors in the early 21st century. Interpretations of statistical models that indicate the continuing relevance of white ethnic group identification to electoral politics and community formation in New England. Comparison of historical white ethnic groups in the United States to new immigrant populations. Sociological research on assimilation in the United States as related to economic class and political behavior. From the authors: "By examining the persistent effect of white ethnicity on political behavior, we seek to broaden our understanding of ethnic political development and voting. We begin our inspection by discussing the past role and prominence of white ethnicity. We then juxtapose these historic assessments of ethnic persistence and decline with the patterns observable by our empirical analysis of the effect of white ethnicity on presidential politics in over 1500 towns in six New England states."Tags Acculturation and Assimilation, Connecticut, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Government and Politics, Irish Americans, Italian Americans, Maine, Massachusetts, New England, New Hampshire, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Government and Politics, Polish Americans, Rhode Island, Vermont -
Granite : Artists and Their Work
Catalog accompaniment to the October 1978 Vermont exhibit of artists, stonework, and granite-inspired pieces, "Granite: Artists and Their Work." From the text: "...includes a brief introduction to the history of the granite industry and the multi-cultural heritage of Barre, and information about the artists working in granite as well as those who have used the quarries and the people of the granite industry as subject matter in their paintings, drawings, prints, and photographs" (1).Tags Art and Architecture, Austrian Americans, Barre VT, Chelsea VT, Danish Americans, Finnish Americans, Greek Americans, Irish Americans, Italian Americans, Jewish Americans, Labor History, Lebanese Americans, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Art and Architecture, Photography, Scottish Americans, Spanish Americans, Swedish Americans, Swiss Americans, Vermont -
In Fair Aroostook
Subtitled, "Where Acadia and Scandinavia's Subtle Touch Turned a Wilderness into a Land of Plenty." Travel writings of a journalist's visit to Aroostook County in northern Maine at the beginning of the 20th century. The writer's impressions of landscapes, industries, and peoples there, and his perception of Scandinavian and French Acadian heritage in that region. Illustrated with photographs. Reprinted in 1973 by the Madawaska Historical Society. Full text available @ Google Books. Contains the following chapters: Frontispiece - Grand Falls on the St. John Chapter 1 - The Entrance into Maine's Great Game and Garden County Chapter 2 - Ashland and its Great Saw-mill - The Impounding of a Moose Chapter 3 - Fish River Waters - Portage Lake and Camp Iverson Chapter 4 - Into Maine's Acadia -The Fish of the Eagle Lake Chapter 5 - Fort Kent - Its Blockhouse and Training School - The Aroostook War Chapter 6 - More of the Acadians - The Girls of the Training School - "Madawaska" - The Story of the Acadians Chapter 7 - From Over the Sea - New Sweden - The Fruitage of a Great Colonization Idea Chapter 8 - Agriculture - The Backbone of Aroostook Prosperity - Coming Towns of the County - L'envoiTags Acadians, Ashland ME, Business and Economics, Education, Emigration and Immigration, Farming and Agriculture, Fishing, Forestry, Fort Fairfield ME, Fort Kent ME, Frenchville ME, Grand Isle ME, Hunting, Italian Americans, Limestone ME, Madawaska ME, Maine, Mills and Mill Work, New Brunswick, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Local, Nova Scotia, Portage Lake ME, Presque Isle ME, St. David ME, St. John River Valley, Stockholm ME, Swedish Americans, Travel and Movement, Van Buren ME, Violence, Westmanland ME -
Yankee City : The Social Life of a Modern Community
Selected case study of a New England city, presented for use in instruction in sociology, political science, and psychology. Without naming the city, this case study includes descriptions of the city's landscape, industry, population, and cultural codes, and some information about vocabulary particular to its people and place. Includes content from interviews with residents, and frequent mention of the dynamics of socioeconomic class within the city. Featured in a collection of popular case studies, with each piece introduced with some information about its significance to scholarship.Tags Armenian Americans, Business and Economics, Community: Customs and Social Life, Demography, Education, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Geography, Greek Americans, Italian Americans, Jewish Americans, New England, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Government and Politics, Nonfiction -- Psychology, Nonfiction -- Social Sciences, Nonfiction -- Sociology, Polish Americans, Russian Americans, Social History -
Actuelles : Les Franco-Américains : I & II
La transcription d'une programme de radio de série, présentée par Radio-Canada sur une période de deux semaines. Deux animateurs canadiens parlent aux personnes à travers la Nouvelle-Angleterre sur les sujets de la langue, l'immigration, la littérature, la religion, et plus encore. Divisé en chapitres suivants:
Semaine I (3-7 sept.): Les Franco-Américains L'arrivee aux Etats-Unis L'installation et les conditions de vie L'eglise catholique et les Franco-Americains: Hier et aujourd'hui Semaine II (10-14 sept.): Le peuple des invisibles Une culture nostalgique Culture, c'est aussi litterature Les Francos et la francophonie L'avenirTags Albany NY, Auburn ME, Biddeford ME, Bristol CT, Burlington VT, Business and Economics, Central Falls RI, Champlain NY, Chazy NY, Cohoes NY, Concord MA, Education, Emigration and Immigration, Essex VT, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Farming and Agriculture, Folklore, Forestry, Fort Kent ME, Greene ME, Hardwick VT, Holyoke MA, Irish Americans, Italian Americans, Jewish Americans, Language and Linguistics, Lawrence MA, Lewiston ME, Lowell MA, Madawaska ME, Madison ME, Manchester NH, Mills and Mill Work, New England, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Documentary, Old Orchard Beach ME, Old Town ME, Orono ME, Plattsburgh NY, Québec, Radio, Saco ME, Schenectady NY, St. John River Valley, Troy NY, US Midwest, Van Buren ME, Violence, Waterford NY, Winooski VT, Woonsocket RI, Worcester MA -
Bringing Religion into Working-Class History : Parish, Public, and Politics in Providence, 1890-1930
Essay exploring the diverse ways in which the Catholic church in Providence, Rhode Island served its predominantly immigrant, working-class parishioners as a public space from which to express political opinion, and as a mouthpiece for the assertion of various civil rights. The church as meeting space, often standing in for other American means of organization, education, or public communication. "[T]he centrality of the Catholic Church in working-class public life..." (151). An attempt at a new articulation of the place of religion in 20th century American working-class history. Focuses on Providence's Irish, Italian, and French Canadian immigrant Catholics.Tags Community: Customs and Social Life, Education, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Federal Hill RI, Georgiaville RI, Government and Politics, Irish Americans, Italian Americans, Labor History, Mills and Mill Work, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Religion, Providence RI, Religion, Violence -
The Cultural and Religious History of Maine : The Catholic Contribution
Subtitled, "A Unit for Sixth Grade Students in Catholic Schools of the Diocese of Portland." A 9-week elementary school guide for teachers in Maine history, with specific emphasis on cultural content, ethnic groups, and the contributions of the Catholic Church from 1603 to 1971. Includes distinct lessons for each of nine weeks, where each lesson follows in a geographic and historical progression congruent with studies in the general history of Maine. Concludes with a timeline of historical events in the Maine Roman Catholic communities, a selected biliography of source materials, and resource write-ups for each lesson's content. Contains in the appendix a Maine map of the churches in the Diocese of Portland.Tags Acadians, Auburn ME, Augusta ME, Bangor ME, Benedicta ME, Biddeford ME, Education, Ellsworth ME, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Exploration and Colonization, Fort Kent ME, Frenchville ME, Geography, Irish Americans, Italian Americans, Lewiston ME, Lille ME, Lithuanian Americans, Madawaska ME, Maine, Native Americans, New Brunswick, Newcastle ME, Nova Scotia, Old Town ME, Polish Americans, Portland ME, Portuguese Americans, Religion, Saco ME, Skowhegan ME, St. John River Valley, Syrian Americans, Waterville ME, Whitefield ME -
Ils se souviennent, They remember : The quiet presence of New England's Franco-Americans
Article describing modern impressions of Franco American culture in New England, including recent and diverse efforts undertaken to preserve certain of its aspects - language, food, music, and others. Presents descriptions of how Franco American assimilation, and Franco Americans' attitude toward it, are sometimes understood.Tags Acculturation and Assimilation, Amherst MA, Barrington NH, Community: Customs and Social Life, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Food, Genealogy, Irish Americans, Italian Americans, Language and Linguistics, Leominster MA, Lowell MA, Manchester NH, Massachusetts, Mills and Mill Work, New England, Orono ME, Religion, Webster MA, Woonsocket RI -
False Accents : Embodied Dialects and the Characterization of Ethnicity and Nationality
Exploration of how the dramatic use of accents and dialects in English speech informs and complicates discourse on race and ethnicity. How the function of identity in drama and performance distinguishes between the concepts of race and ethnicity. Some observations on recent contributions to the study of accents and dialects as elements of the fields of both linguistics and performance studies. The relationship of "theatre practices" to "social realities" as evidenced in the performance of a wide-ranging variety of English dialects.Tags Acculturation and Assimilation, African Americans, Arab Americans, Asian Americans, Chinese Americans, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Filipino Americans, Hispanic Americans, Irish Americans, Italian Americans, Japanese Americans, Korean Americans, Language and Linguistics, Mexican Americans, Native Americans, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Language and Linguistics, Performing Arts -
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 -
The Rise and Fall of the Ethnics
1974 article claiming the impending disappearance of ethnic enclaves in the United States. An attempt to distinguish between "race" and "ethnicity," and to mark assimilation's varying attachment to either. The Americanization of linguistically and culturally diverse communities, and the impact of this process on the shape and face of the dominant American culture. -
Out of Work : The First Century of Unemployment in Massachusetts
A history of unemployment and the unemployed in Massachusetts during the hundred years previous to the stock market collapse of 1929. A study of the jobless - their backgrounds, conditions, and the social and political climate of their day - in Boston, in the state of Massachusetts, and in the United States more broadly. Attempts to fill a gap in scholarship on Massachusetts unemployment before 1930. Presents some untapped research data from that earlier period as a preface and fitting segue to a segment on the federal economic and labor reforms of the 1930s. Includes charts, graphs, and maps with respect to Massachusetts labor and unemployment statistics. Unemployment with respect to age, gender, naturalization status, the state of organized labor, and urbanity or rurality. Contains a rare sketch of Boston and New York City social justice activist, Urbain J. Ledoux - a.k.a. "Mr. Zero."Tags Boston MA, Brockton MA, Business and Economics, Demography, Emigration and Immigration, Family, Gender and Sexuality, Government and Politics, Irish Americans, Italian Americans, Labor History, Lynn MA, Massachusetts, Mills and Mill Work, New York NY, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Labor and Social, Portuguese Americans, Social History, Springfield MA, Youth -
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 -
The General Textile Strike of 1934 : From Maine to Alabama
An account of 1934's nationwide textile strike in the United States. The trend of unionization that preceded the strike, and the strike's lasting impact on labor and industry in the United States. A specific focus on the impact of this strike in the industrial pockets of the New England states - often overshadowed by the arguably more widespread effect of labor unrest on life and industry in the American South. Includes a case study of Burlington, North Carolina, and the textile mills of Burlington Industries. From University of Missouri Press: "In January 1933, the United Textile Workers of America was in danger of collapse. Its membership was no larger than 15,000; its attempts to organize southern workers had failed disastrously; and it was constantly under attack from rival organizations. Yet, barely eighteen months later, with 300,000 dues-paying members, with newly established or revived branches covering southern cotton textile workers, as well as northern woolen and worsted workers, silk and jacquard weavers, dyers and finishers, even rayon workers, and with locals in 208 cities, towns, and mill villages, UTW was about to embark on what one historian has termed 'the greatest single industrial conflict in the history of American labor.' 'The General Textile Strike of 1934' is the story of that conflict....In 'The General Textile Strike of 1934,' John Salmond tells everyone's story. Looking at the strike from a national and an industrywide perspective, Salmond explains why workers were willing to risk protesting and describes the differences and similarities between southern and northern workers. Setting the strike within a New Deal context and focusing on its impact on the future of labor relations in the industry and on the lives of those who participated in it, 'The General Textile Strike of 1934' fills an important gap in American labor history."Tags Alabama, Augusta ME, Biddeford ME, Burlington NC, Burlington VT, Business and Economics, Community: Customs and Social Life, Connecticut, Danielson CT, Dighton MA, Easthampton MA, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Fall River MA, Georgia, Government and Politics, Greenville SC, Hogansville GA, Irish Americans, Italian Americans, Labor History, Lawrence MA, Lewiston ME, Ludlow MA, Maine, Massachusetts, Mills and Mill Work, New Bedford MA, New England, New Hampshire, Newman GA, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Economic and Industrial, Nonfiction -- History -- Labor and Social, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA, Polish Americans, Portuguese Americans, Putnam CT, Rhode Island, Saco ME, Saylesville RI, Scottish Americans, Social History, South Carolina, Tennessee, Vermont, Violence, Virginia, Willimantic CT, Woonsocket RI -
Hard Stone, Hard Feelings
Article compiled from oral history interviews Vermont stonecutters of the early twentieth century. Featured in the Vermont Folklife Center's annual publication, "Visit'n." From the Vermont Historical Society: "Because many French Canadians first came to work in Barre's granite quarries during the strikes of '22 and '33, their relations with Italian granite workers and other ethnic groups were at first very tense."Tags Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Family, Folklore, Italian Americans, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History, Nonfiction -- History -- Documentary, Nonfiction -- History -- Labor and Social, Nonfiction -- History -- Local, Nonfiction -- Immigration, Personal History: Biography and Oral History, Stonecutting, Vermont, Violence -
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 -
Immigrant City : Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1845-1921
A history of the city of Lawrence, Massachusetts, as a site of mass industrialization, diverse immigration, and unique dynamics of class and ethnicity around the turn of the 20th century. From UNC Press: "The violence and radicalism connected with the Industrial Workers of the World textile strike of 1912 in Lawrence, Massachusetts, left the popular impression that Lawrence was a slum-ridden city inhabited by un-American revolutionaries. 'Immigrant City' is a study of Lawrence which reveals that the city was far different....The population of Lawrence was almost completely immigrant in nature; in 1910, 90 per cent of its people were either first or second generation Americans, and they represented nearly every nation in the world. The period covered by the book--1845 through 1921--is the great middle period of American immigration, which began with the Irish Famine and ended with the Quota Law of 1921. While 'Immigrant City' concentrates on one American city, it reveals much about American immigration in general and demonstrates clearly that, in spite of the poverty that most immigrants fought, life for the foreign-born in America was not as grim as some writers have suggested."Tags Acculturation and Assimilation, Community: Customs and Social Life, Death and Disaster, Emigration and Immigration, Family, Government and Politics, Haverhill MA, Irish Americans, Italian Americans, Labor History, Lawrence MA, Massachusetts, Merrimack River Valley, Mills and Mill Work, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Labor and Social, Nonfiction -- Immigration, Québec, Religion, Social History, Spicket River -
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 -
Ethnic and Social Class Differences in Role Strain and Mechanisms of Adjustment
Dissertation comparing the ways in which working- and lower-class Franco American and Italian American women deal with social and psychological stresses. Comparisons of the interpersonal behaviors of "housewives" within each social group, measured in data collected through survey and personal interview. The effects on individuals of changes in social environment. Brief historical background of the two Rhode Island cities from which data was collected, as well as of the two immigrant, ethnic communities in question. Pays close attention to how differing social status, economic class distinction, educational achievement, family size, religious affiliation, etc., factor into personal behaviors. Contains a brief overview of literature on the sociology of mental health and the influences of class and culture on one's orientation toward communicating stress or mental illness. From the author: "This study is concerned with the mental health of selected subgroups, namely ethnic and social class....This study is specifically interested in the amount and kinds of role strain reportedly felt by the members of these two subgroups..." (3).Tags Community: Customs and Social Life, Education, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Family, Gender and Sexuality, Health and Wellness, Italian Americans, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Psychology, Nonfiction -- Social Sciences, Nonfiction -- Sociology, Providence RI, Religion, Rhode Island, Woonsocket RI -
Ethnic Working Class Protest : The Textile Strike of 1922 in Rhode Island
Dissertation on ethnicity and working-class life in early-twentieth-century Rhode Island. Particular emphasis on the causes and effects of a violent 1922 strike at B.B. and R. Knight Mills on the banks of the Pawtuxet River in Natick, Rhode Island. The strike involved an extended mass protest, the intervention of the state militia, and the eventually successful pleading of a local Catholic priest.Tags Business and Economics, Community: Customs and Social Life, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Government and Politics, Italian Americans, Labor History, Mills and Mill Work, Natick RI, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Ethnic Studies, Nonfiction -- History -- Labor and Social, Pawtuxet River Valley, Religion, Rhode Island, 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 -
When We Were the Kennedys : A Memoir from Mexico, Maine
Memoir from Mexico, Maine native and author of fiction, Monica Wood. Recalls the period of the author's youth around the time of the sudden death of her father. Her family's experience of the loss of its breadwinner in the 1960s. The shape of her 1963 mill-centered community and the diversity of people who inhabited it; portraits of the power of religion and industry among people in the towns of Rumford and Mexico. President John F. Kennedy's 1963 assassination - and the widowhood of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis - recounted in light of the disruptive passing of the author's father earlier that same year. -
Lewis Hine's Photography and Reform in Rhode Island
Article on Lewis Hine's photographic work for the National Child Labor Committee, its ties with the National Consumers' League, and the photographer's place among progressive and humanitarian labor reform in early twentieth-century Rhode Island. The child welfare concerns and women and child labor reform initiatives of Alice Hunt and others of the Rhode Island Consumers' League during that time. How Hine's photographs reflect the humanitarian concerns of the political organizations with which he was associated. Examples of Hine's Rhode Island work in the publications of the NCLC, and the ways in which Rhode Island evidence of poor working and living conditions became part of national conversations about child welfare and housing reform, immigration, and, as the author puts it, "the dignity of work" (49). Illustrated with black and white photographs. Includes a list of Lewis Hine photographs held at the Slater Mill Historic Site in Pawtucket, Rhode Island.Tags Chicago IL, Emigration and Immigration, Gender and Sexuality, Government and Politics, Italian Americans, Lonsdale RI, Mills and Mill Work, New York NY, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Documentary, Nonfiction -- History -- Labor and Social, Nonfiction -- History -- Pictorial, Pawtucket RI, Pawtuxet River Valley, Photography, Providence RI, Rhode Island, Social History, Warren RI, Youth -
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 -
La stratification sociale du groupe ethnique canadien-français aux États-Unis
Analyse démographique du groupe ethnique canadien-français aux États-Unis ou dans la Nouvelle-Angleterre entre 1830 et 1950, utlisant des chiffres de la Bureau of the Census. Déscriptions historiques de l'immigration canadienne du Québec aux États-Unis; présentation des chiffres socio-economiques par rapport à d'autres groupes ethniques immigrants avant de 1950.