TY - JOUR
AU - Hunter, Allen
AB - 336 The Journal of American History June 1999 of the latest immigrant wave from Poland, the 1981. Some new immigrant organizations took so-called Solidarity immigration. Current im­ radical stands toward developments in Poland. migration statistics place Poles as the largest One group in particular, Pomost, offended and irritated Polish American sensibilities. Erd­ legal immigrant group in Chicago and the sec­ ond largest illegal group in the city since the mans's book points to the process of identity formation and to the movement from an im­ mid-1980s. Erdmans tells the story not only of this migration but also of its reception by migrant to an ethnic identification. the already established Polish American com­ Opposite Poles is a major contribution to munity. It is a fascinating account that raises a the understanding of ethnicity and the most series of questions concerning ethnic identity, recent immigration from Poland. Mary Erd­ the differences between immigrants and eth­ mans is part of a new generation of young nics, and the differences between larger, older, scholars from various disciplines interested in more staid bureaucratic institutions and smaller, Polish American studies who are shedding younger, more radical organizations. Erdmans more and more light on the experience 
TI - One Nation, after All: What Middle-Class Americans Really Think About: God, Country, Family, Racism, Welfare, Immigration, Homosexuality, Work, the Right, the Left, and Each Other. By Alan Wolfe. (New York: Viking, 1998. viii, 359 pp. $24.95, ISBN 0-670-87677-1.)
JO - The Journal of American History
DO - 10.2307/2567566
DA - 1999-06-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/one-nation-after-all-what-middle-class-americans-really-think-about-tRm64uVr1c
SP - 336
EP - 337
VL - 86
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -