American Immigrant Cultures: Builders of a Nation, Volume 1David Levinson, Melvin Ember These two-volumes are the key to opening the door to the immigrant experience in the United States. This set covers 161 nonindigenous cultural groups currently living in the United States. It discusses both European groups that have been components of American culture for centuries and those groups who arrived in the twentieth century and are therefore less assimilated and more culturally distinct. From the Acadians to the Zoroastrians, it discusses the unique cultural characteristics of each group including detailed immigration and settlement histories, language, economic patterns, housing, religion, marriage, family and kinship, relations with other ethnic groups, as well as discrimination experienced by the group. |
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Acadians African African Americans Albanian Ameri American Amish Angeles Arab areas Armenian arrived Asian assimilation associations Bangladeshi Barbadians Basque became Belarus Belarusan Bengali Black Sea Germans Brazilian Buddhist Cajun California Cambodian Canadians Caribbean Carpatho-Rusyn Catholic centers century Chaldeans Chinese Chinese-Vietnamese church Colombian colonial Cuban cultural Dominican Druze early East economic emigration English ethnic groups Filipinos French Frisians Garifuna Georgian German Germans from Russia Greek Gujaratis Guyanese Haitian Hasidic Hispanic Hmong homeland Honduran Hungarian Hutterites Icelandic identity Igbo immi immigrants Indian Indos Iranian Iraqi Irish Islamic island Ismailis Israelis Italian Jamaicans Japanese Japanese Americans Jewish Jews labor land language living major marriage ment migration Muslim North organizations patterns percent political population professionals refugees region religion religious resettlement residents Russian Rusyn schools settled settlement social society Soviet tion traditional U.S. Census University Press urban West women workers World York City
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American Nightingale: The Story of Frances Slanger, Forgotten Heroine of ... Bob Welch Limited preview - 2008 |