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Jan. 9 | Call for papers: Identities and Technocultures
A 2-day conference about American culture and technologies that examines how new technologies dominate and define Americaness in the US and abroad. Co-sponsored by the University of Iowa Center for Ethnic Studies and the Arts (CESA) and the Mid-America American Studies Association (MAASA).
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Halter, Marilyn. "Cape Verdean-American Immigration and Patterns of Settlement, 1860-1940," Boston University, January 1986. Advisor: Sam Bass Warner, Jr. (8, 1, 11)
This dissertation is a descriptive history of Cape Verdean immigration to and settlement in Southeastern Massachusetts during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It covers 85% of the total United States immigration by Cape Verdeans, and is the first comprehensive study of this unique racial and ethnic group, the only major community of Afro-Americans to have voluntarily made the transatlantic voyage to this country. Using two complementary methodologies, quantitative analysis and oral history, this thesis examines the Cape Verdean-American experience within the framework of recent historical scholarship that compares the adaptation and social mobility patterns of native blacks and European immigrants during the process of large-scale urbanization and mass migration.
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