ABSTRACT
This new volume of original essays focuses on the presence of European ethnic culture in American society since 1830. Among the topics explored in Immigrant America are the alienation and assimilation of immigrants; the immigrant home and family as a haven of ethnicity; religion, education and employment as agents of acculturation; and the contours of ethnic community in American society.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |60 pages
PART I A Clash of Cultures
chapter |22 pages
Chapter 1 Beyond “America for Americans”
Inside the Movement Culture of Antebellum Nativism
part |52 pages
PART II Haven in a Strange New Land
part |59 pages
PART III Agents of Acculturation
part |55 pages
PART IV The Contours of Ethnic Community
chapter |17 pages
Chapter 10 The Changing Face of Ethnic Politics
From Political Machine to Community Organization
chapter |15 pages
Chapter 12 Ethnic Elites and Their Organizations
The St. Louis Experience, 1900–1925
