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VOLUME 28

NUMBER 3

SPRING 2009


CONTENTS

Editorial Staff

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Editor's Note

ARTICLES

DAVID A. GERBER 7

"Yankeys Now"?: Joseph and Rebecca Hartley's Circuitous Path to American Identity—A Case Study in the Use of Immigrant Letters as Social Documentation

WALTER D. KAMPHOEFNER 34

Immigrant Epistolary and Epistemology: On the Motivators and Mentality of Nineteenth-Century German Immigrants

SPECIAL FEATURE:
ETHNIC MUSEUM REVIEWS

DOMINIC A. PACYGA 55

Chicago: City of the Big "Little" Museums

EILEEN H. TAMURA 66

Ethnic Museums in Hawai'i: Exhibits, Interpreters, and Reenactments

ANJU REEJHSINGHANI 74

Museums in Austin and San Antonio, Texas, of Interest to Ethnic Historians

REVIEW ESSAY

ROBERT W. FRIZZELL 89

Germans in Nineteenth-Century America: Old Issues, New Approaches, and Future Directions in German American Historiography

REVIEWS

AARTI BHALODIA 93

Asian American Assimilation: Ethnicity, Immigration, and Socioeconomic Attainment, by C. N. Le

WILLIAM H. MULLIGAN JR. 94

The Harp and the Eagle: Irish-American Volunteers and the Union Army, 1861–1865, by Susannah Ural Bruce

VICTORIA SMITH 96

Lakotas, Black Robes, and Holy Women: German Reports from the Indian Missions in South Dakota, 1886–1900, edited by Karl Markus Kreis and translated by Corinna Dally-Starna

LINWOOD H. COUSINS 98

A Stronger Kinship: One Town's Extraordinary Story of Hope and Faith, by Anna-Lisa Cox

CLIVE WEBB 99

The Southern Diaspora: How the Great Migrations of Black and White Southerners Transformed America, by James N. Gregory

MARY NEUBURGER 101

Anthropology Goes to the Fair: The 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition, by Nancy Parezo and Don Fowler

VIOLET M. SHOWERS JOHNSON 102

The West Indian Diaspora: Experiences in the United States and Canada, by Alwyn D. Gilkes

GENA CAPONI-TABERY 104

Living through the Hoop: High School Basketball, Race, and the American Dream, by Reuben A. Buford May

ANDREW WIESE 106

California Vieja: Culture and Memory in a Modern American Place, by Phoebe S. Kropp

MARTHA ESCOBAR 107

Immigration and Crime: Race, Ethnicity, and Violence, edited by Ramiro Martinez Jr. and Abel Valenzuela Jr.

DONNA GABACCIA 108

White Ethnic New York: Jews, Catholics, and the Shaping of Postwar Politics, by Joshua M. Zeitz

GREG ROBINSON 110

Historical Memories of the Japanese American Internment and the Struggle for Redress, by Alice Yang Murray

ANNE SOON CHOI 111

Civility in the City: Blacks, Jews, and Koreans in Urban America, by Jennifer Lee

ELOISE-ROSE S. LEE 113

The Ruptures of American Capital: Women of Color Feminism and the Culture of Immigrant Labor, by Grace Kyungwon Hong

SHARMILA RUDRAPPA 115

Color of Violence: The Incite! Anthology, edited by Incite! Women of Color Against Violence

IVAN LIGHT 117

Immigrants and Boomers: Forging a New Social Contract for the Future of America, by Dowell Myers

JOSÉ ANGEL HERNÁNDEZ 118

Almost All Aliens: Immigration, Race, and Colonialism in American History and Identity, by Paul Spickard

ERIC T. LOVE 120

Seizing Destiny: How America Grew from Sea to Shining Sea, by Richard Kluger

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Notes on Contributors


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ISSN: 1936-4695

 





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