Migration, Regionalism, and the Ethnic Other, 1840-1870

2016 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 33-58
Author(s):  
Terje Hasle Joranger
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Native Americans ◽  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Primary Source ◽  
The United States ◽  
Source Material ◽  
Immigrant Group ◽  
American Identity ◽  
Upper Midwest ◽  
The Social

This article shows accounts of Norwegian immigrants and their encounter with various ethnic groups in America including Native Americans, African-Americans, Chinese, Irish, and Yankees in the period between 1840 and 1870. The article presents several regions in the United States, namely the Upper Midwest, Texas, and California. The use of primary source material including newspapers, guidebooks and letters provide good insights into thoughts and attitudes, and not the least prejudice, among this Old immigrant group toward the ethnic “Other.” The Norwegian immigrant group aimed at becoming good citizens through a negotiating process between the group, the dominant native-born American group and other ethnic groups in the United States. By characterizing several other ethnic groups based on race, Norwegian-Americans employed whiteness in a double negotiation, both tied to the creation of a Norwegian-American identity and in finding their place in the social hierarchy in America.

A Worthwhile Effort? History of Organized Youth Sport in the United States

2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-75 ◽  
Author(s):  
David K. Wiggins
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Youth Sports ◽  
Primary Source ◽  
Youth Sport ◽  
The United States ◽  
Source Material ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Sports Programs ◽  
History Of

This essay examines the evolution of highly organized youth sports in the United States. Through an examination of both secondary and primary source material, an analysis is made of children's participation in sport from the turn of the twentieth century to the present day. Particular attention is paid to the types of sports programs established for children as well as the various discussions involving the supposed benefits and negative aspects of youth sports. Included is information on Progressive Reformers, youth sport programs outside of educational institutions, and guidelines, reports, assessments, and scholarly evaluation of children and their involvement in sport.

scholarly journals Representations of Native Americans in Adamic’s Writing on (New) Immigrants

Two Homelands ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ksenija Šabec
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
African Americans ◽  
Native Americans ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
The United States ◽  
American Identity ◽  
New Immigrants ◽  
European Immigrants ◽  
Interethnic Relationships

This article presents an overview of the attention Louis Adamic dedicated to Native Americans in various written works and public engagements and compares it with his writing on new immigrants in the light of his understanding of the importance of the preservation of immigrants’ identity and issues of integration and nation-building as they relate to American identity. The article also explores the views on interculturaland interethnic relationships in the United States that Adamic drew on in his treatment of Native Americans. Three works in particular will be analyzed: My America (1938), From Many Lands (1940), and A Nation of Nations (1945). The main finding is that Adamic does not deal as extensively with issues related to indigenous Americans as he does with those related to European immigrants. Nevertheless, Adamic does notcompletely neglect “the Indian story”. In some of his works, most extensively in A Nation of Nations, he specifically compares this story to the (problematic) position of African Americans in an American space that was colonized either “by sword or by book”.

Introduction

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Michael J. Pfeifer
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
The United States ◽  
Dynamic Interaction ◽  
American Identity ◽  
Upper Midwest ◽  
Catholic History ◽  
American Society ◽  
American Catholic ◽  
Over Time

This book analyzes the interaction of religiosity, national and cultural origin, race, gender, class, and region in the varied and uneasy synthesis of Catholicism and American identity over time. American Catholic studies continues to evince comparatively little attention to region, with the weight of scholarship still focused on the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic, with little attention to the varied regions of the United States west of Buffalo. Yet the American Catholic experience diverged significantly among regions, with, for instance, the northeastern pattern of Irish Catholic predominance having less salience in areas of significant Catholic population such as Louisiana, the Upper Midwest, and Southern California. Immigrant Catholic cultures also have hardly been ignored in the literature, yet the lengthy significance of transnational ties for Catholic cultures in the United States has not been extensively pursued, with Americanist scholars evincing a water’s-edge approach after migration that was never actually experienced by Catholics in the United States. Clerical sexual abuse emerges at times in these pages. Like all of the American Catholic history in this book, clerical sexual abuse partakes of a dynamic interaction of particular Catholic cultures and American society and culture.

scholarly journals Sherman Alexie’s Literary Works as Native American Social Realistic Projections

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (11) ◽  
pp. 381
Author(s):  
Md. Amir Hossain ◽  
S.M. Abu Nayem Sarker
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Native American ◽  
Native Americans ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Psychological Trauma ◽  
The United States ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
The Social ◽  
American Society

This paper aims to look at the social realistic issues in the context of Sherman Alexie’s literary works. Alexie is one of the postmodern authors in the United States of America. He is very popular among his Native American society as well as community for representing social reality of his age. This paper is divided into several sections; each section shows a benchmark of the 21st century Social Picture of the Native Americans in the light of Alexian Literary Works. It also scrutinizes stories, and novels with a view to highlighting a faithful picture of Native Americans in the light of everyday social issues, including poverty, alcoholism, unhealthiness, racism, and suicidal act. Basically, the main part of my paper deals with social problems of Native Americans in the United States of America as depicted in Alexie’s literary works. It highlights an awareness of the Native Americans so as to keep themselves aloof from drug addiction, poverty, depression, and psychological trauma. Here I have also applied the critical theory of Social Realism with a view to unveiling a subtle literary affinity with Alexie’s works. In this study, I would like to show the significance of this study, and research methodology as well.

Asian American Mobilization and Political Identities

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara Sadhwani ◽  
Jane Junn
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Political Participation ◽  
Asian Americans ◽  
Asian American ◽  
American Politics ◽  
The United States ◽  
Immigrant Group ◽  
American Identity ◽  
Quarter Century ◽  
Asian American Identity

Immigrants from Asia have been a defining feature of demographic change over the last quarter century in the United States. The 2000 US Census identified Asian Americans as the fastest growing immigrant group in the nation and the Pew Research Center estimates that Asian Americans will become the largest immigrant group in the country by 2055. With that growth has come the development of a vibrant scholarly literature examining Asian American political participation in the United States. This article is designed to provide an overview of the major foundational studies that explore Asian American political behavior, including mobilization and participation in American politics. The earliest research began in the fields of political science and sociology and consider the viability of a panethnic Asian American identity as a unit of analysis for group-based behavior and political interests. Numerous scholars have considered the circumstances under which panethnic Asian American identity can be activated toward group behavior, and how differences in national origin can lead to variations in behavioral outcomes. Participation in American politics, however, is rooted in many other factors such as socioeconomics, one’s experience as an immigrant, ties to the home country, and structural barriers to activism. Individual resources have long been considered an essential component to understanding political participation. Yet, Asian Americans present a puzzle in American politics, evincing higher education and income while participating in politics at a more modest rate. In response to this puzzle, scholars have theorized that structural conditions and the experience faced by Asian immigrants are powerful mechanisms in understanding the determinants of Asian American political participation. Once considered to have relatively weak partisan attachment and little interaction with the two major parties in the United States, studies that examine the development of partisan attachment among Asian Americans are explored which, more recently, find that a growing majority of Asian Americans have shown a preference for the Democratic Party. Finally, we detail studies examining the conditions under which Asian American candidates emerge and are successful, the co-ethnic electorate who supports them, and conclude by detailing the opportunities and constraints for cross-racial collaboration and conflict.

Baking Powder Wars

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda Civitello
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Native Americans ◽  
Government Regulation ◽  
The United States ◽  
Immigrant Group ◽  
Invisible Hand ◽  
Hundred Years War ◽  
Theodore Roosevelt ◽  
Baked Goods ◽  
The World

This book is about the Hundred Years War of food business, how a mid-nineteenth century American invention, baking powder, replaced yeast as a leavening agent and created a culinary revolution as profound as the use of yeast thousands of years ago. Before government regulation, the force controlling the market was not a visible or invisible hand, but advertising sleight of hand. Four companies—Rumford, Royal, Calumet, and Clabber Girl—fought advertising, trade, legislative, scientific, and judicial wars with proprietary cookbooks, lawsuits, trade cards, and bribes. In the process, they altered or created cake, cupcakes, cookies, biscuits, pancakes, quick breads, waffles, doughnuts, and other foods, and forged a distinct American culinary identity. This new American chemical leavening shortcut also changed the breadstuffs of Native Americans and every immigrant group and was a force for assimilation. The wars continued in spite of scandals exposed by muckraking journalists and investigation by President Theodore Roosevelt, through WWI, the 1920s, the Depression, and WWII in every state, territory, and kitchen in the United States until standardization finally occurred at the end of the twentieth century. Now, global businesses such as McDonald’s and Kentucky Fried Chicken depend on baking powder for their baked goods, and baking powder is in home and commercial kitchens around the world.

Social Influence in the Housing Market

2015 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 757-779 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carrie H. Pan ◽  
Christo A. Pirinsky
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Influence ◽  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
The United States ◽  
Social Effects ◽  
Lower Income ◽  
Comparison Process ◽  
Housing Consumption ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Comparison Process

AbstractWe utilize the decennial U.S. Census to study social effects in housing consumption across 4 million households from 126 ethnic groups and 2,071 geographic locations in the United States. We find that the homeownership decisions within ethnic groups are locally correlated, after controlling for the homeownership rates within the group and the region. Social influence is stronger for younger, less educated, and lower-income individuals; immigrants; and Americans with ancestors from more unequal, uncertainty-avoiding, and collectivistic cultures. Our results suggest that both status and information considerations play an important role in the social comparison process in capital markets.

The tale of iranian entrepreneurs in the United States

2007 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 29-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keramat Poorsoltan
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
The United States ◽  
Immigrant Group ◽  
Business Community ◽  
Highly Educated ◽  
Typical American

In practice and in theory, as the findings of this research reveal, the Iranian business community is a new and different, nonconforming immigrant group in the United States. This study explores certain aspects of the Iranian business community in light of a survey done by the author.The article compares and contrasts findings of the survey with those of existing literature that has been written about the business communities of various ethnic groups.The results of this study disagree with the literature in most areas. One difference is that the Iranian business community in the United States does not fit into the general understanding that ethnic groups have economic enclaves and niches. They are dispersed in all 48 contiguous states, and their businesses cover practically any possible line of entrepreneurial activity.These entrepreneurs are highly educated, and 76 percent of them are between 30 and 50 years old.Among them, 84 percent are male, a typical American profile.

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