3. HYPHENATED-AMERICANS OR "ALIEN" MEANINGS FOR AMERICANIZATION:

• "Foreign Nationalities" Begin Arriving in the Mid-19th Century
• ITALIANS: Paesans in Motion
  • -The Castaldos on Taylor Street: a Family History
  • -Paesans, Pasta, and Progressives: Italian Foodways and American Culture
  • -A Portrait of Ethnic Italian Women
  • -"Feste": Street Religion and Church Authority
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• JEWS: From Shtetl to Ghetto
  • "We Cheat You Fair": Retailing Wholesale in the Maxwell Street Market
  • Virtual Walking Tour of the Maxwell Street Neighborhood: Maxwell Street Market Historic District National Register
  • Hilda Polacheck, A "Russian Hebrew" Girl and Breadgiver
  • A Portrait of Ethnic Jewish Women
  • The Chicago Hebrew Institute and Philip Seman: a Jewish Settlement House
  • Garments, Sweat Shops, & Trade Unionism: the 1910 Hart Schaffner & Marx Strike
• BOHEMIANS:  When Pilsen was Czech
• GREEK-AMERICANS:  Generations of Change on the NWS
• IRISH-AMERICANS on the NWS
• AFRICAN-AMERICANS on the NWS
• MEXICAN-AMERICANS on the NWS

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