The Immigrant Left in the United StatesPaul Buhle, Dan Georgakas This book investigates the role immigrant radicals have played in U.S. society from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. A valuable contribution to the history of the American Left, it makes use of a wealth of material from immigrants whose everyday speech and intellectual discourse were not in the English language. The social-history scholarship that informs the essays is innovative in method and purpose. Articles on Mexican-American, German, Jewish, Polish, Japanese, Chinese, Filipino, Italian, Ukrainian, Greek, Arab, and Haitian immigrants supply missing conceptual links between the immigration experience, the neighborhood and the workplace, and political, labor, and cultural institutions. Taken together, they offer a model study in transnational history, one of the most important new fields of historical inquiry. Included are essays by Douglas Monroy, Stan Nadel, Michael Topp, Mary E. Cygan, Maria Woroby, Michael W. Suleiman, Robert G. Lee, Carole Charles, Van Gosse, and the editors. |
Contents
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TWO The German Immigrant Left in the United States 45 | 45 |
THREE Themes in American Jewish Radicalism 77 | 77 |
Transnationalism and | 119 |
FIVE The PolishAmerican Left 148 | 148 |
SIX The Ukrainian Immigrant Left in the United States | 185 |
The Twentieth | 207 |
EIGHT The ArabAmerican Left 233 | 233 |
NINE The Hidden World of Asian Immigrant Radicalism 256 | 256 |
TEN Haitian Life in New York and the HaitianAmerican | 289 |
A | 302 |
Contributors 331 | 331 |
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