| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.2

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Book Review

Immigrant Minds, American Identities: Making the United States Home, 1870–1930. By Orm Øverland. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2000. x, 243 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-252-02562-8.)

Was Christopher Columbus a brave Jewish Marrano fleeing the Inquisition or a proud Italian Catholic serving Catholic Spain? In the South Bronx streets of my youth, the correct answer depended upon your neighborhood. The wrong answer got you a bloody nose. But why did Columbus's ethnic identity matter so much to first- and second-generation working-class Jewish and Italian newcomers over four hundred years after Columbus came ashore? Orm Øverland, who teaches American literature at the University of Bergen, Norway, offers a compelling explanation. . . .

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