Ethnic category: 7100 books
by Anthony M. Sammarco, Order of the Sons of Italy in Massachusetts
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2015
The Grand Lodge of Massachusetts, Order Sons of Italy in America was chartered in 1914 and is one of the oldest lodges in the United States. The lodge recently celebrated its centennial with a long list of events that extolled the preservation and promotion of Italian heritage and culture that has endured...
Atlanta Greeks
An Early History
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2015
By 1890, the first Greek immigrants to Atlanta had settled into an area still widely populated by Confederate veterans. In a city without the large immigrant presence common in the nation's major urban areas, the Greeks were initially received as undesirable visitors by the state's and city's leaders....
Critical Analysis Toward Nordic Deity and Aryan Entity
Critique of Teutonic Theory to Belief-The Brilliance of the Snow
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2011
Within the realm of time, the Nordic/Aryan/Teutonic being has descended and compelled himself or herself to move into what may be called the critical analysis of generation toward generation. Such a fraternal examination will not be flattering. Within this questioning study, boundaries of kind will...
Germans in Louisville
A History
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2015
The first German immigrants arrived in Louisville nearly two hundred years ago. By 1850, they represented nearly 20 percent of the population, and they influenced every aspect of daily life, from politics to fine art. In 1861, Moses Levy opened the famed Levy Brothers department store. Kunz's "The...
by Gabrielle Robinson
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2003
The story of the first German immigrants to northern Indiana is the story of the beginnings of South Bend. The predominant immigrant group from the 1840s to the 1870s, the Germans helped build South Bend from an isolated trading post into a thriving industrial city. They also played a key role in transforming...
Czech American Timeline
Chronology of Milestones in the History of Czechs in America
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Czech American Timeline chronicles important events bearing on Czech-American history, from the earliest known entry of a Czech on American soil to date. This comprehensive chronology depicts the dazzling epic history of Czech colonists, settlers, as well as early visitors, and their descendants,...
by Martin Aaron Brower
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010
When Martin Brower moved his family from heavily Jewish Los Angeles to barely Jewish Orange County, California, in 1974, his Los Angeles friends were amazed at his bravery and his foolishness.Orange County was considered anti-Semitic and lacking in culture.
However, during the years following...
by Miloslav Rechcigl Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
This is a pioneering, comprehensive bibliography of existing publications relating to American Jews with ancestry in the former Czechoslovakia and its successor states, the Czech and the Slovak Republics, which has never before been attempted. Since only a few studies have been written on the subject,...
The South Side
A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
**One of Buzzfeed's 18 Best Nonfiction Books Of 2016**
A lyrical, intelligent, authentic, and necessary look at the intersection of race and class in Chicago, a Great American City
In this intelligent and highly important narrative, Chicago-native Natalie Moore shines a light on contemporary...
by Irwin Richman
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2008
The Landis family of Landis Valley was ordinary and extraordinary at the same time. Its members were typical Pennsylvania Germans of their era, focused on farming and family, yet they also traveled, edited magazines, and became the founders of the Landis Valley Museum. The Landis family settled in Lancaster...
Finding a Way to the Top
Career Moves for Success
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2004
Many people will fail at their first and second attempts to be successful in a corporation, not because they lack the academic skills or the technical know-how.They will fail because they lack the knowledge and experience to deal with the discipline of corporate culture.
Black, Hispanic, and...
Am I a Jew?
My Journey Among the Believers and Pretenders, the Lapsed and the Lost, in Searc h of Faith (Not Necessarily My Own), My Roots, and Who Knows, Even Myself
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2012
What makes someone Jewish?
Theodore Ross was nine years old when he moved with his mother from New York City to the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Once there, his mother decided, for both personal and spiritual reasons, to have her family pretend not to be Jewish. He went to an Episcopal school, where...
Mexican Business Culture
Essays on Tradition, Ethics, Entrepreneurship and Commerce and the State
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2016
Western business owners and managers are increasingly interested in doing business in Mexico. Yet few have thoroughly investigated the country’s business climate and culture. This collection of new essays by contributors who work in and research the business culture of Mexico takes a combined academic...
Quixote's Soldiers
A Local History of the Chicano Movement, 1966–1981
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2010
In the mid-1960s, San Antonio, Texas, was a segregated city governed by an entrenched Anglo social and business elite. The Mexican American barrios of the west and south sides were characterized by substandard housing and experienced seasonal flooding. Gang warfare broke out regularly. Then the striking...