[Review of] Allen G. Noble, ed. To Build in a New Land: Ethnic Landscapes in North America

Like so many works with sections on various subdivisions of a general topic overseen by a general editor, this volume has its ups and downs. The thesis -- that various ethnic groups have provided America with various sorts of architectural styles and modifications of native structures -- is new and fascinating

[Review of] Frank J. Cavaioli and Salvatore J. LaGumina. The Peripheral Americans

This book is primarily a discussion of foreign ethnic groups who have come to the United States. Perhaps the most striking thing about it is that it is a revision of The Ethnic Dimension in American Society (Holbrook Press, Boston, 1974) with the authors\u27 names reversed

[Review of] June Drenning Holmquist, ed., They Chose Minnesota: A Survey of the State\u27s Ethnic Groups

It seems only fair to say that this book does for the ethnic groups in Minnesota what the Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups does for all the groups in this country. Starting out with the American Indians (the Dakotas and Ojibways particularly), it surveys the more than sixty groups who have chosen to live in the state, ending in the 1970s with an account of the various groups of Indochinese refugees

[Review of] Charles C. Moskos. Greek Americans: Struggle and Success

This book should be of primary interest to people at the some thirty colleges and universities which offer courses in Greek American literature and culture. First published in 1980, the major strong point of this book is that the two added chapters and appendix deal with very recent developments on the Greek American scene, particularly the candidacy of Michael Dukakis for president

[Review of] Richard D. Alba. Ethnic Identity: The Transformation of White America

Believing that a relatively small amount of research has been done with the ethnic identity of white Americans, Alba surveyed 524 whites in the Albany, New York, area. The majority were English, French, German, and Scottish whose forebears had been in this country for several generations. There were also numerous Irish, and among later immigrants, fairly large numbers of Italian and Polish descent

[Review of] Carol Trosset. Welshness Performed: Welsh Concepts of Person and Society

Wales, ruled by native princes until the thirteenth-century and subsequently governed from London, contains a population of about three million, twenty percent of which speak an indigenous language

[Review of] Sid White and S. E. Solberg, eds. Peoples of Washington: Perspectives on Cultural Diversity

This book about the various ethnic people in the state is disappointing in two ways: its format, and its very limited material about some of the groups who have been and are living in the state

[Review of] David Greenslade. Welsh Feuer

Greenslade\u27 s rather mod title underlines his main thesis -- namely, that ethnic consciousness among Welsh descendants in North America is very high indeed. Both his own evidence and my own observations convince me that he is perfectly justified in his assertion. The one thing he does not really address is why

[Review of] Ronald D. Dennis. The Call of Zion: The Story of the First Welsh Mormon Emigration

Like so many accounts of immigration, this has both a dark side and a light side. The latter is primarily a story of courage and determination and final success. The former is one of persecution and of propaganda, both pro- and anti-Mormon

[Review of] Elwyn T. Ashton. The Welsh in the United States

Ashton\u27s mid-sized volume about the Welsh in America joins the first, and very short account by David Williams, Wales and America (published in Wales in 1946 as part of a bilingual pamphlet series), and Edward George Hartmann\u27s Americans from Wales (nearly three hundred pages, published in 1967 and reprinted in America in 1978)