Polish American History after 1939
Polish American History from 1854 to 2004, Volume 2
- 556 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
This book is the second in a three-part, multi-authored study of Polish American history which aims to present the history of Polish Americans in the United States from the beginning of Polish presence on the continent to the current times, shown against a broad historical background of developments in Poland, the United States and other locations of the Polish Diaspora.
According to the 2010 US Census, there are 9.5 million persons who identify themselves as Polish Americans in the United States, making them the eighth largest ethnic group in the country today. Polish Americans, or Polonia for short, has always been one of the largest immigrant and ethnic groups and the largest Slavic group in America. Despite that, common knowledge about its social and political life, culture and economy is still inadequate – in Academia and among the Polish Americans themselves. The book discusses the major themes in Polish American history, such as organizational life and the structure of the community facing subsequent waves of immigration from Poland, its leadership and political involvement in Polish and American affairs, as well as living and working conditions, and the everyday life of families and communities, their culture, ethnic identity and relations with the broadly understood American society, starting from the outbreak of World War 2 in Poland in September, 1939, and ending with the highlights of the 21st-century developments. It depicts Polish Americans' transition from a 'minority' through 'ethnic' group to Americans who take pride in their symbolic ethnicity, maintained intentionally and manifested occasionally.
This volume will be of great value to students and scholars alike interested in Polish and American History and Social and Cultural History.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- List of Tables
- List of Boxes
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Polish Americans during World War II
- 2 The New Immigration
- 3 The Uneasy Relations between the New Immigration and the Old Polonia
- 4 From Urban Neighborhoods to the Suburbia. Polish American Daily Life in the 1940s and 1950s
- 5 In the Light of Celebrations, in the Shadow of the Cold War
- 6 Ethnic Revival
- 7 Let Poland Be Poland
- 8 After the Cold War
- 9 The New Millennium
- 10 Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index