Full Description
In the last, rootless decade families, neighborhoods, and communities have disintegrated in the face of gripping social, economic, and technological changes. Th is process has had mixed results. On the positive side, it has produced a mobile, volatile, and dynamic society in the United States that is perhaps more open, just, and creative than ever before. On the negative side, it has dissolved the glue that bound our society together and has destroyed many of the myths, symbols, values, and beliefs that provided social direction and purpose. In A History of the Polish Americans, John J. Bukowczyk provides a thorough account of the Polish experience in America and how some cultural bonds loosened, as well as the ways in which others persisted.
Contents
INTRODUCTION TO THE TRANSACTION EDITION, PREFACE, PRONUNCIATION OF POLISH NAMES, 1. From Hunger, "for Bread": Rural Poland in the Throes of Change, 2. To Field, Mine, and Factory: Work and Family in Polish America, 3. Hands Clasped, Fists Clenched: Unity and Strife in the Immigrant Community, 4. Continuity and Change in the 19205 and 19308: From Polish to Polish-American, 5. The Decline of the Urban Ethnic Enclave: Polish America Transformed, WW Il-Present, 6. What Is a Polish-American?, The Revival of Ethnic Identity, 7. Vanguard or Rearguard?, Ethnic Politics in Mass Society, Epilogue. Polish-American Ethnicity—Its Meaning and Its Future, BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY, NOTES, INDEX
