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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| Place / Publishing House: | University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021] ©1998 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- 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