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Ethnic Historians and the Mainstream - Shaping America's Immigration Story (Paperback)
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Ethnic Historians and the Mainstream - Shaping America's Immigration Story (Paperback)
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Do historians "write their biographies" with the subjects they
choose to address in their research? In this collection, editors
Alan M. Kraut and David A. Gerber compiled eleven original essays
by historians whose own ethnic backgrounds shaped the choices they
have made about their own research and writing as scholars. These
authors, historians of American immigration and ethnicity,
revisited family and personal experiences and reflect on how their
lives helped shape their later scholarly pursuits, at times
inspiring specific questions they asked of the nation's immigrant
past. They address issues of diversity, multiculturalism, and
assimilation in academia, in the discipline of history, and in
society at large. Most have been pioneers not only in their
respective fields, but also in representing their ethnic group
within American academia. Some of the women in the group were in
the vanguard of gender diversity in the discipline of history as
well as on the faculties of the institutions where they have
taught. The authors in this collection represent a wide array of
backgrounds, spanning Europe, Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and
Latin America. What they have in common is their passionate
engagement with the making of social and personal identities and
with finding a voice to explain their personal stories in public
terms. Contributors: Theresa Alfaro-Velcamp, John Bodnar, Maria C.
Garcia, David A. Gerber, Violet M. Showers Johnson, Alan M. Kraut,
Timothy J. Meagher, Deborah Dash Moore, Dominic A. Pacyga, Barbara
M. Posadas, Eileen H. Tamura, Virginia Yans, Judy Yung
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