The Transplanted: A History of Immigration Urban America.
by John Bodnar
The Progressive Era and WWI
ImmigrationEthnicity and Race
Thesis:
Immigrants to urban America maintained a dynamic relationship with both their past culture and the imperatives of their present environment by creating a mediating "culture of everyday life" most evident in the structure and function of the immigrant family.
Specific examples/evidence that supports the
thesis:
Despite that industrialization moved the work force out of the home, family remained central to labor as family and friends found jobs for one another. Wages were used to sustain the family unit.
Summary:
Bodnar is attempting to correct the historic record of Progressive Era immigration to reflect the evidence that immigrants were not simply victims of circumstance, completely displaced, and alienated from any of the social cultural norms they were used to at home. In fact, their homeland had also changed dramatically and through their immigration the attempted recreate much of their society in this new environment.
Bodnar is attempting to correct the historic record of Progressive Era immigration to reflect the evidence that immigrants were not simply victims of circumstance, completely displaced, and alienated from any of the social cultural norms they were used to at home. In fact, their homeland had also changed dramatically and through their immigration the attempted recreate much of their society in this new environment.
What does this tell us about Immigration in the Progressive Era/WWI?
Immigrants were often leaving their home that was experiencing profound change and disruption due to the new capitalist world order. While extreme upheaval to their lifestyle did occur, it was anticipated and much was done to attempt to reincorporate the social structures they were losing.
What does this tell us about Ethnicity and Race in the Progressive Era/WWI?
What parts of the book can be applied to lectures?
General Thoughts:
Excerpts from Book Reviews:
"Emigration was a means for those who could afford it to sustain traditional family against the disruptions of the modern world. On the other hand, the immigrant family itself had to modernize. In either respect, immigrants were children of capitalism."
"Urban immigrant life was neither traumatized by modern capitalism nor fixed in primordial tradition but, rather, transformed by the dynamic between these forces."
"Urban immigrant life was neither traumatized by modern capitalism nor fixed in primordial tradition but, rather, transformed by the dynamic between these forces."
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