A History of the Polish Americans

ISBN-13: 9781138518292 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 234 str.

John J. Bukowczyk

Opis

Provides an account of the Polish experience in America and how some cultural bonds loosened. This book explains historical reasons that led Polish people to come to America, the experience of the first wave of immigrants, the identity problem of second-generation Poles, and the kind of institutions that Polonia established in America.

Spis treści

INTRODUCTION TO THE TRANSACTION EDITION, PREFACE, PRONUNCIATION OF POLISH NAMES, 1. From Hunger, “for Bread”: Rural Poland in the Throes of Change, 2. To Field, Mine, and Factory: Work and Family in Polish America, 3. Hands Clasped, Fists Clenched: Unity and Strife in the Immigrant Community, 4. Continuity and Change in the 19205 and 19308: From Polish to Polish-American, 5. The Decline of the Urban Ethnic Enclave: Polish America Transformed, WW Il-Present, 6. What Is a Polish-American?, The Revival of Ethnic Identity, 7. Vanguard or Rearguard?, Ethnic Politics in Mass Society, Epilogue. Polish-American Ethnicity—Its Meaning and Its Future, BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY, NOTES, INDEX

O autorze

John.J. Bukowczyk