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Alan M. Kraut (Ed.) - Ethnic Historians and the Mainstream: Shaping America´s Immigration Story - 9780813562254 - V9780813562254
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Ethnic Historians and the Mainstream: Shaping America´s Immigration Story

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Do historians “write their biographies” with the subjects they choose to address in their research? In this collection, editors Alan M. Kraut and David A. Gerber compiled eleven original essays by historians whose own ethnic backgrounds shaped the choices they have made about their own research and writing as scholars. These authors, historians of American immigration and ethnicity, revisited family and personal experiences and reflect on how their lives helped shape their later scholarly pursuits, at times inspiring specific questions they asked of the nation’s immigrant past. They address issues of diversity, multiculturalism, and assimilation in academia, in the discipline ... Read more

The authors in this collection represent a wide array of backgrounds, spanning Europe, Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America. What they have in common is their passionate engagement with the making of social and personal identities and with finding a voice to explain their personal stories in public terms.

Contributors: Theresa Alfaro-Velcamp, John Bodnar, María C. García, David A. Gerber, Violet M. Showers Johnson, Alan M. Kraut, Timothy J. Meagher, Deborah Dash Moore, Dominic A. Pacyga, Barbara M. Posadas, Eileen H. Tamura, Virginia Yans, Judy Yung

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
New Brunswick NJ, United States
ISBN
9780813562254
SKU
V9780813562254
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About Alan M. Kraut (Ed.)
ALAN M. KRAUT is University Professor of History at American University, a nonresident Fellow of the Migration Policy Institute, and president of the Organization of American Historians. He is the author of The Huddled Masses: The Immigrant in American Society, 1880–1921; Silent Travelers: Germs, Genes, and the “Immigrant Menace”; Goldberger’s War: The Life and Work of a Public Health Crusader; ... Read more

Reviews for Ethnic Historians and the Mainstream: Shaping America´s Immigration Story
"These historians whose books we have read, shaped the scholarship. With this insightful volume we can know where they came from and understand why they wrote as they did."
Hasia Diner
New York University
"Kraut and Gerber have assembled chapters by an impressive range of scholars, who reflect on how their own lives and experiences and those ... Read more

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