Center for Folklore Studies

Past Activities

Ethnicity, Migration, and Heritage Interdisciplinary Seminar

Selected Readings on Heritage, Ethnicity, and Migration

Alba, Richard. Ethnic Identity: The Transformation of White America. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990.

Aleinikoff, T. Alexander and Douglas Klusmeyer, eds. From Migrants to Citizens: Membership in a Changing World. Washington D.C.: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2000.

Anagnostu, Georgios. Negotiating Identity, Connecting Through Culture: Hellenism and Neohellinism in Greek America. Unpublished Ph. D. Dissertation: Ohio State University, 1999.

Appadurai, Arjun. Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization. Minneapolis:University of Minnesota Press, 1996.

Bakalian, Anny. Armenian-Americans: From Being to Feeling Armenian. Transaction, 1993.

Banks, Marcus. Ethnicity: Anthropological Constructions. London: Routledge, 1996.

Barth, Fredrik, ed. Ethnic Groups and Boundaries. Bergen-Oslo: Universitetsforlaget, 1969.

Ben-Amos, Dan and Liliane Weissberg, eds. Cultural Memory and the Construction of Identity. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1999.

Bianco, Carla. The Two Rosetos. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1974.

Boyarin, Jonathan. "Death and the Minyan," Cultural Anthropology, 9 (1994):3-22.

Bradunas, Elena. "Introduction." Ethnic Heritage and Language Schools in America. Ed. Brett Topping. Washington: Library of Congress, 1988.

Chan, Sucheng. Hmong Means Free: Life in Laos and America. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1994.

Chin, Ko-Lin. Smuggled Chinese: Clandestine Immigration to the United States. Philadelphia, Temple University Press, 1999.

Chow, Rey. Writing Diaspora: Tactics of Intervention in Contemporary Cultural Studies. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993.

Clark, Steve, ed. Travel Writing and Empire: Postcolonial Theory in Transit. New York: Zed Books Ltd, 1999.

Clifford, James. The Predicament of Culture: Twentieth Century Ethnography, Literature, & Art. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1988.

Danielson, Larry, ed. Western Folklore 36 (1977).

DeValle, Susan B. C. "Discourses of Ethnicity: The Faces and the Masks." Ethnicity and Nation- building in the Pacific. Ed. Michael C. Howard. Tokyo: The United Nations University, 1989.

Epstein, Steven. "Gay Politics, Ethnic Identity: The Limits of Social Constructionism." Socialist Review 93/94 (1987): 9-54.

Fischer, Michael. "Ethnicity and the Post-Modern Arts of Memory." Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography. Ed. James Clifford and George Marcus. University Press, 1986.

Gaonkar, Dilip Parameshwar, ed. Alter/Native Modernities. Durham: Duke University Press, 1999.

Gooch, Richard. "American and the Americans." In 1833-1834. Ed. Richard Toby Widdicombe. New York: Fordham University Press, 1994.

Goode, Judith and Jo Anne Schneider. Reshaping Ethnic and Racial Relations in Philadelphia: Immigrants in a Divided City. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1994.

Gottlieb, Alma. Under the Kapok Tree: Identity and Difference in Beng Thought. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1992.

Greenhouse, Carol J. and Philip C. Parnell, eds. American Ethnologist 26 (1999).

Hackett, Beatrice Nied. Pray God and Keep Walking: Stories of Women Refugees. Jefferson: McFarland and Co, 1996.

Harris, Herbert W., Howard C. Blue, and Ezra E. H. Griffith. eds. Racial and Ethnic Identity: Psychological Development and Creative Expression. New York: Routledge, 1995.

Hesse, Carla and Robert Post, eds. Human Rights in Political Transition: Gettysburg to Bosnia. New York: Zone Books, 1999.

Holston, James, ed. Cities and Citizenship. Duhram: Duke University Press, 1999.

Hufford, Mary. "Introduction: Rethinking the Cultural Mission." Conserving Culture: A New Discourse on Heritage. Ed. Mary Hufford. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1994.

Jameson, Fredric and Masao Miyoshi, eds. The Cultures of Globalization. Durham: Duke University Press, 1998.

Judd, Dennis R. and Susan S. Rainstein, eds. The Tourist City. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999.

Kaplan, Caren. Questions of Travel: Postmodern Discourses of Displacement. Durham: Duke University Press, 1996.

Kearney, M. "The Local and the Global: The Anthropology of Globalization and Transnationalism." Annual Review of Anthropology 24 (1995): 547-65.

Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Barbara. "Sounds of Sensibility." Judaism: A Quarterly Journal of Jewish Life and Thought 47 (1998): 47-78.

Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Barbara. "Theorizing Heritage." Ethnomusicology 39 (1995): 367-380.

Kivisto, Peter and Dag Blanck, eds. American Immigrants and Their Generation. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990.

Koslowski, Rey. Migrants and Citizens: Demographic Change in the European State System. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2000.

Lamphere, Louise, ed. Structuring Diversity: Ethnographic Perspectives on the New Immigration. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1992.

Lavie, Smadar and Ted Swedenburg, eds. Displacement, Diaspora, and Geographies of Identity. Durham: Duke University Press, 1996.

Leonard, Karen Isaksen. Making Ethnic Choices: California's Punjabi Mexican Americans. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1992.

Linnekin, Jocelyn. "The Politics of Culture in the Pacific." In Cultural Identity and Ethnicity in the Pacific. Ed. Jocelyn Linnekin and Lin Poyer. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1990.

Martin, Randy and Gyan Prakash, eds. Globalization? Durham: Duke University Press, 1999.

Milkman, Ruth, ed. Organizing Immigrants: The Challenge for Unions in Contemporary California. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2000.

Mormino, Gary R. and George E. Pozzetta. The Immigrant World of Ybor City: Italians and Their Latin Neighbors in Tampa, 1885-1985. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990.

Muir, Karen Lynn Stickney. The Strongest Part of the Family: A Study of Lao Refugee Women in Columbus, Ohio. Unpublished Ph. D. Dissertation. Ohio State University, 1984.

Novak, Michael. The Rise of the Unmeltable Ethnics: Politics and Culture in the Seventies. New York: The Macmillan Co., 1971

O'Connor, Bonnie B. Healing Traditions: Alternative Medicine and the Health Professions. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995.

O'Neal, Colleen G. "Possibilities for Migration Anthropology." American Ethnologist 26 (1999): 221-225.

Ong, Aihwa. Flexible Citizenship: The Cultural Logics of Transnationality. Durham: Duke University Press, 1999.

Pratt, Mary Louise. Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation. Routledge: 1992.

Rappaport, Joanne. The Politics of Memory: Native Historical Interpretation in the Colombian Andes. Durham: Duke University Press, 1998.

Rasmussen, Janet E. New Land, New Lives: Scandinavian Immigrants to the Pacific Northwest. Northfield: Norwegian-American Historical Association, 1993.

Reimer, Tripp Toni. Genetic Demography of an Urban Greek Immigrant Community. Unpublished Ph. D. Dissertation: Ohio State University, 1977.

Romanucci-Ross, Lola. One Hundred Towers: An Italian Odyssey of Cultural Survival. New York: Bergin & Garvey, 1991.

Royce, Anya Peterson. Ethnic Identity: Strategies of Diversity. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1982.

Santino, Jack, ed. Journal of American Folklore 113 (2000).

Scott, James C. Domination and the Arts of Resistance: Hidden Transcripts. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990.

Scourby, Alice. "Ethnicity at the Crossroads: The Case of Greek America." Journal of the Hellenic Diaspora 20 (1994): 123-133.

Shain, Yossi. "Arab-Americans at a Crossroads." Journal of Palestine Studies 25 (1996): 46-59.

Schmitz, Nancy. Irish for a Day: Saint Patrick's Day Celebrations in Quebec City 1765-1990. Quebec, Carraig Books, 1991.

Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty. A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Toward a History of the Vanishing Present. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999.

Stern, Stephen and John Allan Cicala, eds. 1991. Creative Ethnicity: Symbols and Strategies of Contemporary Ethnic Life. Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press.

de la Torre, Adela and Batriz M. Pesquera, eds. Building with our Hands: New Directions in Chicana Studies. Berkley: University of California Press, 1993.

Tululyan, Khachig. "Rethinking Diaspora(s): Stateless Power in the Transnational Moment." Diaspora 5 (1996).

Wagner, Daniel A. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 42 (1983).

Warner, R. Stephen and Judith G. Wittner, eds. Gatherings in Diaspora: Religious Communities and the New Immigration. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1998.

Waters, Mary. Ethnic Options: Choosing Identities in America. University of California Press, 1990.