And my children did not know me : a history of the Polish-Americans /
Primarily covering the emigrants between 1870 and World War I and their descendants, this is a concise treatment focusing on Polish-Americans' work and labor unions, values and religion, politics, and response to World War II and the Cold War. Statistical information pervades the narrative, whi...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Bloomington :
Indiana University Press,
[1987], ©1987
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| Series: | Minorities in modern America
Minorities in modern America |
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Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Pronunciation of Polish names
- From Hunger, "for bread": rural Poland in the throes of change
- To field, mine, and factory: work and family in Polish America
- Hands clasped, fists clenched: unity and strife in the immigrant community
- Continuity and change in the 1920s and 1930s: from Polish to Polish-American
- The decline of the urban ethnic enclave: Polish American transformed, WW II - Present
- What is a Polish-American? The revival of ethnic identity
- Vanguard or rearguard? Ethnic politics in mass society
- Epilogue: Polish-American ethnicity: its meaning and its future
- Notes (p. 173-180)