Thei mmigrant left in the United States
By: edited by Paul Buhle and Dan Georgakas.
Contributors: Buhle, Paul.; Georgakas, Dan.
Series: SUNY series in American labor history
Publisher: State University of New York Press; State Univ of New York Pr
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 349
Subjects: Radicalism -- United States.; Immigrants -- United States -- Political activity.; Socialism -- United States.; Right and left (Political science)
Description: This book investigates the role immigrant radicals have played in U.S. society from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. A valuable contribution to the history of the American Left, it makes use of a wealth of material from immigrants whose everyday speech and intellectual discourse were not in the English language.

The social-history scholarship that informs the essays is innovative in method and purpose. Articles on Mexican-American, German, Jewish, Polish, Japanese, Chinese, Filipino, Italian, Ukrainian, Greek, Arab, and Haitian immigrants supply missing conceptual links between the immigration experience, the neighborhood and the workplace, and political, labor, and cultural institutions. Taken together, they offer a model study in transnational history, one the most important new fields of historical inquiry.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.