ethnic history

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• SOURCE: Canopy Forum
  11/30/2022
  

  Open Hearts, Closed Doors: Immigration and the Eclipse of Protestant Cultural Authority in America

  by Nicholas T. Pruitt

  Liberal Protestants in the early 1960s supported the reform of racially restrictive immigration laws, but ended up encouraging a more diverse nation where their brand of moderate religion was eclipsed by both multiculturalism and conservative white evangelicalism. 

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• SOURCE: The Metropole
  11/17/2022
  

  Immigrant Merchants and Law-and-Order Politics in Detroit

  by Kenneth Alyass

  The Chaldean community of Detroit became a significant middleman-minority through the operation of small stores in working-class and majority-Black neighborhoods. As white flight and disinvestment created increasingly dire conditions, they also became a constituency for aggressive policing. 

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• 2/27/2022
  

  Bridget the Grocer and the First American Kennedys

  by Neal Thompson

  The history of the Irish immigrant Kennedys has long focused on its prominent men. A new book looks to JFK's grandmother Bridget Murphy Kennedy as the foundation of the family and a neglected figure for understanding immigration, urban life, and the changing of American politics.

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• SOURCE: Texas Monthly
  9/14/2021
  

  Why Democrats are Losing Texas Latinos

  A significant portion of Tejanos consider themselves white and many vote like Anglo Texans; their history shows the contingency of racial categories and the risk for Democrats of assuming demographics will substitute for political appeal. 

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• SOURCE: Atlas Obscura
  9/10/2021
  

  The Challenges of Reclaiming Filipino Louisiana’s Centuries-Old History

  “Filipinos in Louisiana are always being ‘discovered,’ says Randy Gonzalez. Someone will write an article, ‘I bet you didn’t know there were Filipinos in Louisiana!’ Ten years later, someone will write the same article. I wish that would stop one day.”

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• SOURCE: Forward
  8/24/2020
  

  The Passing of Pioneering Historian Moses Rischin Marks the End of an Era

  by Jonathan Sarna

  Moses Rischin, the last survivor among the bold group of scholars who created the field of American Jewish history following World War II, died last week in San Francisco at the age of 94. His passing marks the end of an era.