Opposite Poles: Immigrants and Ethnics in Polish Chicago, 1976-1990
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Opposite Poles presents a fascinating and complex portrait of ethnic life in America. The focus is Chicago Polonia, the largest Polish community outside of Warsaw. During the 1980s a new cohort of Polish immigrants from communist Poland, including many refugees from the Solidarity movement, joined the Polish American ethnics already settled in Chicago. The two groups shared an ancestral homeland, social space in Chicago, and the common...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0271030194
ISBN13:9780271030197
Release Date:April 1998
Publisher:Penn State University Press
Length:280 Pages
Weight:0.91 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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