Measuring Cultural Identity: Validation of a Modified Cortes, Rogler and Malgady Bicultural Scale in Three Ethnic Groups in New York

2009 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 451-472 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan E. Mezzich ◽  
Maria A. Ruiperez ◽  
Gihyun Yoon ◽  
Jason Liu ◽  
Maria I. Zapata-Vega
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Ethnic Groups

A Swedish notice from the middle of the 18th century on the Jews of New York

1994 ◽  
Vol 15 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 121-127
Author(s):  
Nils Martola
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
Primary Objective

Per Kalm was born in 1716 in Sweden, the son of a family of Lutheran clergymen from the province of Ostrobothnia. He began his studies in natural sciences at Åbo Akademi in 1735, moved to Uppsala University in 1740, and soon became one of Carl Gustaf Linné’s foremost disciples. Pehr Kalm was considered as one of the purest exponents of 18th century Enlightenment and rationalism in Sweden/Finland. In October 1747 he commenced his journey to America, and returned to Stockholm in June 1751. His primary objective was to collect seeds of plants and trees considered to be economically useful for Sweden. During the journey Kalm kept a detailed diary in which he wrote observations on the weather, on plans and agricultural matters, on sundry customs among ethnic groups he met, reported discussions with different people, and made extracts from sources he deemed interesting.

European-American Elderly. A Guide for Practice. Christopher L. Hayes, Richard A. Kalish, David Guttmann (Eds.). New York: Springer Publishing Company, 1986. 272 pages, $30.95 U.S.

1987 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-77
Author(s):  
Milada Disman
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
Cultural Background ◽  
Intervention Strategies ◽  
Publishing Company ◽  
European American ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
The Church

SUMMARY ABSTRACTThe book discusses the socio-cultural background of the Euro-American elderly; focuses on social institutions such as family, the ethnic neighbourhood and the church; addresses programs and services; identifies program models and describes some intervention strategies. The issues discussed appear to apply to the ethnic elderly from a range of ethnic groups in addition to the ones analyzed. Besides practitioners, this book should prove of interest to researchers, policy makers and gerontology students.

A Perspective of Northeastern Archaeology

1938 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 94-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
William A. Ritchie
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New Jersey ◽  
New England ◽  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Geographical Area ◽  
Maritime Provinces

Arbitrarily considered, the Northeastern geographical area embraces the Maritime Provinces of Canada, lower Quebec and Ontario (exclusive of the peninsula), and all of New England, New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Obviously such a large territory (some 485,000 square miles) constitutes neither a single physiographical nor cultural province, but in a general way it was the domain, in both historic and prehistoric times, of two far flung ethnic groups: the Algonkian and the Iroquoian.

Three Generations of Italians in New York City: Their Religious Acculturation

1969 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 3-17
Author(s):  
Nicholas John Russo
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
York City ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Religious Tradition ◽  
Racial Groups ◽  
Religious Groups ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
American Society

Renewed awareness in ethnic groups as well identified, persisting and active participants in the political and social life of American society imposes a new task on the social scientists to define better and more cogently measure the implications of pluralism and integration. This article by Russo—presenting the findings of his doctoral dissertation: The Religious Acculturation of the Italians in New York City—evidences the fast disappearance of the cultural identity of an immigrant group in relation to their rural religious tradition and behavior. At the same time, it notes the survival of social identity. In the light of this evidence, we can ask ourselves if ethnic religious institutions might have led the immigrants to religious forms more in keeping with their new environment and how the acculturation described should be evaluated. Above all, we are forced to search for those variables which maintain the ethnic groups’ identity even in the third generation. In this way, the process of the inclusion into American society of different ethnic and religious groups may reveal some clues for the more complex test of inclusion of different racial groups.

The Scene of Suffering and Misery Is Beyond Description

2020 ◽  
pp. 27-29
Author(s):  
Susan E. Lindsey
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Slave Trade ◽  
The United States ◽  
James Buchanan ◽  
The Village

All was not peaceful in Liberia in the months before the Majors and Harlans (the Majors’ former neighbors from Kentucky) arrived. In a flashback, chapter 5 reveals the violence that awaits the new settlers. Port Cresson is a small settlement established by the New York Colonization Society and the Young Men’s Colonization Society of Pennsylvania. The village, near where the Luna will disembark passengers a year later, is attacked by a group of indigenous warriors in June 1835. In a single horrible night, twenty people—three men, four women, and thirteen children—are slaughtered. Survivors flee to nearby Edina. The slave trade, supported by many of the indigenous ethnic groups, is behind the attack. The vice agent of the colony survives the attack, but he and his wife are done with Liberia and promptly sail for America. Thomas Buchanan, a cousin of James Buchanan who would later become president of the United States, replaces Hankinson as agent.

Kirk Hazen. Identity and ethnicity in the rural South: A sociolinguistic view through past and present Be. Durham, NC: Duke University Press for the American Dialect Society, 2000. Pp. xii, 178. Pb $20.00.

2003 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 442-445
Author(s):  
Brian José
Keyword(s):  
North Carolina ◽  
Native Americans ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Sociolinguistic Variation ◽  
Vernacular English ◽  
Duke University ◽  
Warren County ◽  
Linguistic Behavior ◽  
The University

This book is the revised version of Hazen's 1997 Ph.D. dissertation at the University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill). In it, Hazen investigates the linguistic behavior of three ethnic groups in Warren County, North Carolina, both individually and collectively, with respect to copula absence and leveling of past be, with the aim of ascertaining the linguistic boundaries that delineate the ethnic groups. These ethnic groups are African Americans (comprising 57% of the overall population in the 1990 Census), European Americans (38%), and Native Americans (4%). In addition to ethnicity, Hazen considers the influence of age, sex, and cultural identity. He situates his data and findings in the broader sociolinguistic context by discussing, for example, the contributions that they make to the origins debate and the divergence/convergence debate surrounding African American Vernacular English (AAVE). Perhaps the two most significant contributions of the study, however, are the discussion of wont as an innovative variant descended from wasn't, a past-tense corollary of present tense ain't (cf. Hazen 1998), and the discussion of the influence of cultural identity on sociolinguistic variation (cf. Hazen 2002).

Structural Opportunity or Ethnic Advantage? Immigrant Business Development in New York

1989 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roger Waldinger
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
Small Business ◽  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
The United States ◽  
Business Development ◽  
Business Activity ◽  
West Indians ◽  
Melting Pot ◽  
Small Manufacturer

Research on ethnic enterprise emerged in the United States as part of an attempt to explain the historical differences in business activity between blacks and other ethnic groups. In Beyond the Melting Pot, Glazer and Moynihan argued that “the small shopkeeper, small manufacturer, or small entrepreneur of any kind played such an important role in the rise of immigrant groups in America that its absence from the Negro community warrants at least some discussion.”1 Glazer and Moynihan offered some brief, possible explanations, but the first extended treatment came with the publication of Ivan Light's now classic comparison of Blacks, not with Jews, Italians, or Irish, but with immigrants—Japanese, Chinese, West Indians—whose racial characteristics made them equally distinctive; the argument developed an imaginative variant of the Weber thesis, showing that it was ethnic solidarism, not individualism, that gave these immigrants an “elective affinity” with the requirements of small business.

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