First Generation; In the Words of Twentieth-Century American Immigrants

xviii, [2], 234, [2] pages. With an Introduction by Robert Coles. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Ex-Library (of Congress) with some of the usual library markings. DJ has stains and chips. A collection of oral histories dealing with the American immigrant experience from a multi-ethnic approach. June Namias, associate professor of history at the University of Alaska Anchorage, is author of First Generation: In the Words of Twentieth-Century American Immigrants and editor of new editions of James E. Seaver's A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison and Sarah F. Wakefield's Six Weeks in the Sioux Tepees. A collection of oral histories that deal with the American immigrant experience from a multi-ethnic approach. The book contains the stories of thirty-one immigrants who arrived in the United States between 1900 and the 1970s. These men, women, and children came from over twenty countries in Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Latin America, and the Caribbean, and represent part of the massive economic, political, and social upheavals that have shaped the 20th century. These personal histories suggest the vast range of immigrant experience in America.…