Opposite Poles : : Immigrants and Ethnics in Polish Chicago, 1976-1990 / / Mary Patrice Erdmans.
Opposite Poles presents a fascinating and complex portrait of ethnic life in America. The focus is Chicago Polonia, the largest Polish community outside of Warsaw. During the 1980s a new cohort of Polish immigrants from communist Poland, including many refugees from the Solidarity movement, joined t...
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Erdmans, Mary Patrice, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Opposite Poles : Immigrants and Ethnics in Polish Chicago, 1976-1990 / Mary Patrice Erdmans. University Park, PA : Penn State University Press, [2021] ©1998 1 online resource (280 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Ackowledgments -- List of Tables -- Introduction: Immigrants and Ethnics -- 1 Polishness in Twentieth-Century America -- 2 Immigrants, Wakacjusze, and Refugees -- 3 Culture and the Discourse of Communism -- 4 A Solidarity of Differences -- 5 Power, Competition, ant1 Ownership -- 6 Identity and National Loyalty: The 1989 Election -- Conclusion: Migrations and Generations -- Bibliography -- Appendix -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Opposite Poles presents a fascinating and complex portrait of ethnic life in America. The focus is Chicago Polonia, the largest Polish community outside of Warsaw. During the 1980s a new cohort of Polish immigrants from communist Poland, including many refugees from the Solidarity movement, joined the Polish American ethnics already settled in Chicago. The two groups shared an ancestral homeland, social space in Chicago, and the common goal of wanting to see Poland become an independent noncommunist nation. These common factors made the groups believe they ought to work together and help each other; but they were more often at opposite poles. The specious solidarity led to contentious conflicts as the groups competed for political and cultural ownership of the community. Erdmans's dramatic account of intracommunity conflict demonstrates the importance of distinguishing between immigrants and ethnics in American ethnic studies. Drawing upon interviews, participant observation in the field, surveys and Polish community press accounts, she describes the social differences between the two groups that frustrated unified collective action. We often think of ethnic and racial communities as monolithic, but the heterogeneity within Polish Chicago is by no means unique. Today in the United States new Chinese, Israeli, Haitian, Caribbean, and Mexican immigrants negotiate their identities within the context of the established identities of Asians, Jews, Blacks, and Chicanos. Opposite Poles shows that while common ancestral heritage creates the potential for ethnic allegiance, it is not a sufficient condition for collective action. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Jun 2021) Immigrants Illinois Chicago History 20th century. Polish Americans Illinois Chicago History 20th century. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014 9783110745269 https://doi.org/10.1515/9780271072531?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780271072531 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780271072531.jpg |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Ackowledgments -- List of Tables -- Introduction: Immigrants and Ethnics -- 1 Polishness in Twentieth-Century America -- 2 Immigrants, Wakacjusze, and Refugees -- 3 Culture and the Discourse of Communism -- 4 A Solidarity of Differences -- 5 Power, Competition, ant1 Ownership -- 6 Identity and National Loyalty: The 1989 Election -- Conclusion: Migrations and Generations -- Bibliography -- Appendix -- Index |
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