Immigrant America

A Clash of Cultures * Beyond 'America for Americanism:' Inside the Movement Culture of Antebellum Nativism, Dale T. Knobel * Becoming American: Assimilation, Pluralism, and Ethnic Identity, David L. Salvaterra * Us and Them: Reflections on Ethnic Literature, Betty Ann Burch * Haven in a Strange New Land * Home is Where the Heart Is: Immigrant Mobility and Home Ownership, Gordon W. Kirk, Jr. and Carolyn Tyirin Kirk * Parents and Children: Fundamental Questions About Immigrant Family Life, Mary Elizabeth Brown * Mothers and Daughters: Nassau County Italian American Women, Mary Jane Capozzoli Ingui * Agents of Acculturation * The Religious Factor in Immigration: The Dutch Experience, Robert P. Swierenga * The Ethnic Dimension of American Catholic Parochial Education, Timothy Walch * The World of Work: The Croatians of Whiting, Indiana, Edward A. Zivich * The Contours of Ethnic Community * The Changing Face of Ethnic Politics: From Political Machine to Community Organization, Edward R. Kantowicz * The Ethnic Frontier: Rural Germans and the Settlement of America, LaVern J. Rippley * Ethnic Elites and Their Organizations: The St. Louis Experience, 1900-1925, Margaret Lo Piccolo Sullivan * Guide to Further Readings * Index