White Ethnic Americans

Question 1

White ethnic Americans

Answer 1

The scotch-Irish
(Assimilation quickly)

The famine Irish
(Emigrate or perish)
Coffin ships - tons of single women

Question 2

Power and Social Class

Answer 2

Corrput politics in NY and Chicago

Corrupted allowed them to provide food and financial support

Question 3

John F Kennedy

Answer 3

First Irish/ catholic president

Separation of church and state

Question 4

Prejudice and discrimination

Answer 4

English saw Irish as subhuman, ignorant, sterotyped

• conditionally white
• tension with African Americans
• competition for work

Question 5

Italian Americans

Answer 5

Southern is the major region

-immigration was network driven

Question 6

Italian American population today

Answer 6

1.8 million full or partial

Middle class

Question 7

Sterotypes

Answer 7

Organized crime, decline today

Question 8

Assimilation

Answer 8

Family patterns
1. Language usage
2 diet

Question 9

The future: Theories

Straight line theory

Answer 9

Movement Toward more complete assimilation proceeds irreversibility with each successive generations

Question 10

Symbolic ethnicity

Answer 10

Your ethnic city becomes a matter of voluntary personal identity

Question 11

Unhyphenated whites

Answer 11

People who do not know their ethnic origins or don’t identify with any of these groups

“Just American “

Question 12

Optional ethnicity

Answer 12

Ethnicity is becoming a matter of personal preference because you can make choices that proves the ethnicity