Immigrant minds, American identities
Subtitle: making the United States home, 1870-1930
By: Orm Øverland.
Series: Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Centennial series
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 243
Subjects: Immigrants -- United States -- History; United States -- Emigration and immigration -- History
Description: "Focusing on a period of American history marked by a sharp division between Anglo-Americans ("Americans") and non-Anglo European immigrants ("foreigners"), Orm Overland examines the creation of "home-making myths" - stories that weave immigrants into the basic fabric of America by linking them to the pivotal events and ideas of their new homeland.

Devised by individual ethnic leaders and spread through ethnic media, banquets, and rallies, these myths were a response to being marginalized by the dominant group and a way of laying claim to a legitimate home in America."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-230) and index.