Ethnic Chicago: A Multicultural PortraitMelvin Holli, Peter d'Alroy Jones This award-winning study of ethnic life in Chicago richly details the various peoples and ethnic institutions in America's heartland city. This newly revised and expanded edition also includes chapters on African-American migration, Chatham, Latino Chicago, the Chinese in Chicago, Asian Indians, Korean-Americans, the new entrepreneurial immigrants, and the Swedes. There is also a new six-chapter section that examines saloons, sports, crime, churches, neighborhoods, and cemeteries. |
Contents
The Founding Fathers The Absorption of FrenchIndian Chicago 18161837 | 17 |
Irish Chicago Church Homeland Politics and ClassThe Shaping of an Ethnic Group 18701900 | 57 |
German American Ethnic and Cultural Identity from 1890 Onward | 93 |
A Community Created Chicago Swedes 18801950 | 110 |
The Jews of Chicago From Shtetl to Suburb | 122 |
Polish Chicago Survival through Solidarity | 173 |
Ukrainian Chicago The Making of a Nationality Group in America | 199 |
Chicagos Italians A Survey of the Ethnic Factor 18501990 | 229 |
Japanese Americans Melting into the AllAmerican Melting Pot | 409 |
Asian Indians in Chicago Growth and Change in a Model Minority | 438 |
Koreans of Chicago The New Entrepreneurial Immigrants | 463 |
The Ethnic Saloon A Public Melting Pot | 503 |
Ethnic Sports | 529 |
Ethnic Crime The Organized Underworld of Early 20th Century Chicago | 557 |
The Ethnic Church | 574 |
Chicagos Ethnic Neighborhoods The Myth of Stability and the Reality of Change | 604 |
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