Journal of American Ethnic History

Editor: Suzanne Sinke

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Current Volume: 43 (2023-2024)
Issued quarterly (Fall, Winter, Spring, and Summer)
ISSN: 0278-5927
eISSN: 1936-4695

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The official journal of the Immigration & Ethnic History Society

The Journal of American Ethnic History (JAEH) addresses various aspects of North American immigration history and American ethnic history, including background of emigration, ethnic and racial groups, Native Americans, race and ethnic relations, immigration policies, and the processes of incorporation, integration, and acculturation. Each issue contains articles, review essays, and single book reviews. The Journal also features occasional scholarly forums, "Research Comments" (short essays that furnish important information for the field, a guide to further research, or other significant historical items that will stimulate discussion and inquiry), and "Teaching and Outreach" essays which focus on innovative teaching methods or outreach efforts. The journal also publishes special issues grouping articles and essays on particular or specific topics or themes.


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Editors

Editor
Suzanne M. Sinke
Department of History
113 Collegiate Loop
401 Bellamy Building
Florida State University
Tallahassee, FL  32306-2200
ssinke@fsu.edu

Book Review Editor
Omar Valerio-Jiménez
jaehreviews@gmail.com

Editorial Board

  • Eiichiro Azuma, University of Pennsylvania
  • James R. Barrett, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • Ronald H. Bayor, Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Brian Behnken, Iowa State University
  • John Bodnar, Indiana University
  • Charlotte Brooks, Baruch College
  • Deborah Cohen, University of Missouri–St. Louis
  • Hasia Diner, New York University
  • Neil Foley, Southern Methodist University
  • Nancy Foner, Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY
  • Maria Cristina Garcia, Cornell University
  • David A. Gerber, University of Buffalo (SUNY)
  • Gary L. Gerstle, University of Cambridge
  • Adam Goodman, University of Illinois, Chicago
  • David G. Gutiérrez, University of California, San Diego
  • Hidetaka Hirota, University of California, Berkeley
  • Madeline Y. Hsu,  University of Texas, Austin
  • Anna D. Jaroszyńska-Kirchmann, Eastern Connecticut State University
  • Violet M. Johnson, Texas A&M University
  • Walter Kamphoefner, Texas A&M University
  • Russel Kazal, University of Toronto
  • Kevin Kenny, New York University
  • Paul Kramer, Vanderbilt University
  • Alan M. Kraut, American University
  • Maddalena Marinari, Gustavus Adolphus College
  • Pyong Gap Min, Queens College, CUNY
  • Natalia Molina, University of Southern California
  • Ewa Morawska, University of Essex
  • Fraser Ottanelli, University of South Florida
  • Barbara M. Posadas, Northern Illinois University
  • Touré Reed, Illinois State University
  • David Roediger, University of Kansas
  • Vicki Ruiz, University of California, Irvine
  • Amritjit Singh, Ohio University
  • Jordan Stanger-Ross, University of Victoria
  • M. Mark Stolarik, University of Ottawa
  • Judy Wu, University of California, Irvine

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The Journal of American Ethnic History (JAEH) addresses various aspects of North American immigration history and American ethnic history, including background of emigration, ethnic and racial groups, Native Americans, race and ethnic relations, immigration policies, and the processes of incorporation, integration, and acculturation. Each issue contains articles, review essays, and single book reviews. The journal also features occasional scholarly forums, "Research Comments" (short essays that furnish important information for the field, a guide to further research, or other significant historical items that will stimulate discussion and inquiry), and "Teaching and Outreach" essays which focus on innovative teaching methods or outreach efforts. The journal also publishes special issues grouping articles and essays on specific topics or themes.

The JAEH practices a double-blind review process. Because submissions are evaluated anonymously, the author’s name should appear only on the title page. Electronic versions of the manuscript should be submitted as Microsoft Word email attachments to ssinke@fsu.edu. Articles should ideally not exceed 10,000 words, not including notes, tables, etc. All article submissions should include an abstract no longer than 250 words and a brief author bio. Previously published work or work currently under consideration elsewhere will not be reviewed.

JAEH follows the guidelines of the Chicago Manual of Style (16th edition). JAEH uses endnotes as the method of citation. Manuscripts not submitted in accordance to these standards may not be considered for review.

Once a manuscript is accepted for publication, authors may choose to enhance their work with illustrations. It is the responsibility of the author to obtain authorization from copyrights holders for images and text reprinted in the JAEH. Electronic and print rights are required. All illustrations are reproduced in black-and-white. The author is required to submit the original permission letters for all copyrighted material used in his/her manuscript. Authors should insert call-outs into the text where the images would appear (for example, <Insert Figure 1 near here>). All figures or illustrations should be submitted as TIFF image files formatted as 300 dpi grayscale and line art should have a resolution of 1200 dpi or better.

Send correspondence regarding manuscripts to Suzanne M. Sinke, electronically at ssinke@fsu.edu or per post at:

Suzanne M. Sinke
Department of History
Florida State University
113 Collegiate Loop
401 Bellamy Building
Tallahassee, FL  32306-2200. 

Correspondence regarding book reviews should be sent to:

Ely Janis
Department of History, Political Science, and Public Policy,
Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts
375 Church Street
North Adams, MA 01247.


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Featured Articles



Race, Revisionism, Ethnic Boundaries, and Japanese American Internment
Lon Kurashige
https://doi.org/10.5406/jamerethnhist.40.3.0005
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/jamerethnhist.40.3.0005?refreqid=excelsior%3A4206d8af9df08035f3183c44b82555bd

Off-White Romantics: Cross-cultural Histories of Immigrant Picture Brides and the Process of US Race Making
Kathryn Vaggalis
https://doi.org/10.5406/jamerethnhist.40.3.0043
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/jamerethnhist.40.3.0043?refreqid=excelsior%3A41635e3ba44368c2eb257c55affc9c10

“As bad as anybody else”: The Innocents, Political Violence, and the Creole-Italian Alliance in Reconstruction New Orleans
Christopher Joseph Cook
https://doi.org/10.5406/jamerethnhist.40.3.0070
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/jamerethnhist.40.3.0070?refreqid=excelsior%3Af614465ab1ae44c1f6e21c1ba9ac90f5

How Atlantic Mobility Shaped American Naturalization in the Confederation Period
Cody E. Nager
https://doi.org/10.5406/19364695.41.2.01
https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jaeh/article/41/2/5/293935/How-Atlantic-Mobility-Shaped-American

Mormons and Mohammedans: Race, Religion, and the Anti-Polygamy Bar in US Immigration Law
Julian Lim
https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jaeh/article/41/1/5/287390/Mormons-and-Mohammedans-Race-Religion-and-the-Anti

“Virtual Ethnic Town Hall”: WeChat and Suburban Chinese Migrants’ Multidirectional Activism
Lisong Liu
https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jaeh/article/42/3/5/343443/Virtual-Ethnic-Town-Hall-WeChat-and-Suburban

Managing the Migration: Latino Intermediaries and the Expansion of United States Migratory Labor from World War I through the Bracero Program
Juan Ignacio Mora
https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jaeh/article/42/3/103/343442/Managing-the-Migration-Latino-Intermediaries-and

Informality, Recurseo, and Entrepreneurship among Peruvians in Paterson, New Jersey, 1960–2001
Gianncarlo Muschi
https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jaeh/article/42/3/73/343441/Informality-Recurseo-and-Entrepreneurship-among

Singing-in and Singing-out Ethnicity: An Immigrant Songbook as a Locus for Negotiations of Ethnic Identity, Cultural Heritage Preservation, and Acculturation, 1880s–1940s
Tina Langholm Larsen
https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jaeh/article/42/3/40/343448/Singing-in-and-Singing-out-Ethnicity-An-Immigrant

Anti-Black Racism and the Nativist State
Llana Barber
https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jaeh/article/42/4/5/376253/Anti-Black-Racism-and-the-Nativist-State

“Travel on the Highways of the Broad Atlantic”: Toward a Brief History of the Cape Verdean Packet Trade
J. Marlena Edwards
https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jaeh/article/42/4/60/376252/Travel-on-the-Highways-of-the-Broad-Atlantic

“Ready to Die”: The Notorious Cuff, a Resistant Enslaved (Akan) Male in Eighteenth-Century New Jersey
Kenneth E. Marshall
https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jaeh/article/42/4/83/376254/Ready-to-Die-The-Notorious-Cuff-a-Resistant

“The one primitive people who contact with civilization has failed to exterminate”: New York and “Gypsy” Madness in the 1920s
Dalen C. B. Wakeley-Smith
https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jaeh/article/43/1/67/382053/The-one-primitive-people-who-contact-with

Sovereign Mercy: The Legalization of the White Russian Refugees and the Politics of Immigration Relief
S. Deborah Kang
https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jaeh/article/43/1/5/382052/Sovereign-Mercy-The-Legalization-of-the-White

Contemporary Modes of Yemeni American Agency Between Urgency and Emergence
Waleed F. Mahdi
https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jaeh/article/43/1/43/382051/Contemporary-Modes-of-Yemeni-American-Agency

The Architects of Hate: Garrett Hardin and Cordelia S. May's Fight for Immigration Restriction and Eugenics in the Name of the Environment
Miroslava Chávez-García
https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jaeh/article/43/1/88/382048/The-Architects-of-Hate-Garrett-Hardin-and-Cordelia

“Our Dark Hands and Sore Backs”: The Comité Cívico Popular Mixteco and the New Grassroots Activism by Indigenous Mexican Migrants
Jorge Ramirez-Lopez
https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jaeh/article/43/2/5/384495/Our-Dark-Hands-and-Sore-Backs-The-Comite-Civico

“A Desirable Class of Homeseekers”: Colonization, Race, and Italian Migration in the Progressive Era US South
Lauren Braun-Strumfels
https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jaeh/article/43/2/34/384493/A-Desirable-Class-of-Homeseekers-Colonization-Race

Exploring The Complexities of “Alien Suffrage” in American Political History
Ron Hayduk; Marcela Garcia-Castañon; Vedika Bhaumik
https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jaeh/article/43/2/70/384497/Exploring-The-Complexities-of-Alien-Suffrage-in