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America's ethnic discourse thrives on familiar but increasingly slippery metaphors of identity such as "melting pot" and "mosaic," as well as related ideologically weighted descriptions of urban space: "slum," "ghetto," and "inner city." Since the 1930s, historians have participated in this highly political and often confusing conversation. Having vanquished the Anglo-Teutonic nativists who had dominated the profession with their longing for the alleged cultural homogeneity of the past, two generations of scholars reared in and committed to understanding the ethnic complexity of the nation's immigrant-derived cities have redefined America's past. In recent years, social historians have stressed the persistence of ethnic identities, the distinctive power of the culture of racism, and immigrant workers' strategies "under capitalism." We no longer have a unified (and unifying) immigrant history, but a variety of American ethnic histories. As the four books I will be discussing reveal, social historians have formulated increasingly sophisticated understandings of the varied experiences of European migrants. They are also somewhat aware that the recent migrations which are reshaping our cityscapes may call for reconceptualizing "the immigrant experience." But there remains a great deal of uncertainty over whether (and how) our reading of the many ethnic pasts can (or should) provide a vision capable of informing public discourse in our ethnic present.

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Gerber, David A. The Making of an American Pluralism: Buffalo, New York, 1825-60 Emmons, David M. The Butte Irish: Class and Ethnicity in an American Mining Town, 1875-1925 Miller, Randall M. and George E. Pozzetta, eds. Shades of the Sunbelt: Essays on Ethnicity, Race and the Urban South. Ward, David. Poverty, Ethnicity, and the American City, 1840-1925: Changing Conceptions of the Slum and Ghetto.