123rd Annual Meeting (January 2 - 5, 2009): Strangers in the Windy City: Race, Ethnicity, and Global Influence on Immigrant Communities in Chicago between the 1900s and 1940s

Strangers in the Windy City: Race, Ethnicity, and Global Influence on Immigrant Communities in Chicago between the 1900s and 1940s

AHA Session 72

Saturday, January 3, 2009: 9:30 AM-11:30 AM

Clinton Suite (Hilton New York)

Chair:

Nancy Woloch, Barnard College, Columbia University

Papers:

Bodies in Motion and the Seduction of Jazz: Taxi-Dance Halls and Urban Nightlife in Chicago's Im/migrant Communities
Maria Paz G. Esguerra, University of Michigan

Negotiating Local and Non-Local Identities: Chicago’s Jewish, Irish, and Czech Communities in the Great Depression and World War II
Margaret Lee, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Orientals vs. Yankees: Discourse on Race and Nationalism of Japanese Baseball Games in Chicago, 1910–30
Mayumi Hoshino, Indiana University at Bloomington

Comment:

Thomas Guglielmo, George Washington University

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