Making It in America: A Sourcebook on Eminent Ethnic Americans

by Elliott Robert Barkan

Overview

This collection of over 400 biographies of eminent ethnic Americans celebrates a wide array of inspiring individuals and their contributions to U.S. history.

The stories of these 400 eminent ethnic Americans are a testimony to the enduring power of the American dream. These men and women, from 90 different ethnic groups, certainly faced unequal access to opportunities. Yet they all became renowned artists, writers, political and religious leaders, scientists, and athletes. Kahlil Gibran, Daniel Inouye, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Thurgood Marshall, Madeleine Albright, and many others are living proof that the land of opportunity sometimes lives up to its name.

Alongside these success stories, as historian Elliot R. Barkan notes in his introduction to this volume, there have been many failures and many immigrants who did not stay in the United States. Nevertheless, the stories of these trailblazers, visionaries, and champions portray the breadth of possibilities, from organizing a nascent community to winning the Nobel prize. They also provide irrefutable evidence that no single generation and no single cultural heritage can claim credit for what America is.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781576070987
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	05/01/2001
Pages:	448
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 1.06(d)
Age Range:	12 - 18 Years

About the Author

Elliott R. Barkan is professor of American history and ethnic studies and is the book editor for the Jourbanal of American Ethnic History.

Table of Contents

	Individuals by Ethnicity	xi
	Individuals by Occupation	xxi
	Introduction: Achieving Eminence in America's Culture of Success	xxxv
	Acknowledgments	li
	Abdullah, Mohammed Nur Ali "Sheik Nur"	1
	Abu Eid, Fatima	2
	Adamic, Louis	3
	Aguirre, Valentin	4
	Ahmed, Ismael N.	5
	Ahn, Philip	6
	Akiwumi, Fenda	7
	Akiyoshi, Toshiko	8
	Albright, Madeleine Korbel	8
	Alegria, Fernando	9
	Allende, Isabel	10
	Alvarez, Julia	11
	Amara, Lucine	12
	Amaya, Dionisia	13
	American, Sadie	14
	Amir, Sara	15
	Ammann, Othmar H.	17
	Aratani, George	18
	Arce, Elia	19
	Archipenko, Alexander	20
	Arnaz, Desi	21
	Asbury, Francis	21
	Aubuchon, William E., and Aubuchon, William E., Jr.	22
	Badovinac, John	25
	Balanchine, George	26
	Bambace, Angela	27
	Baraga, Frederic Irenej	28
	Barolini, Helen	29
	Bartok, Bela	30
	Bassiouni, Mahmoud Cherif	31
	Beck, Mary	32
	Bednarik, Charles "Chuck"	33
	Bell, Alexander Graham	33
	Bell, Thomas	34
	Bellow, Saul	35
	Belpre, Pura	36
	Berger, Victor	37
	Bergman, Ingrid	38
	Bethune, Mary McLeod	39
	Bierstadt, Albert	40
	Bikel, Theodore	41
	Birkerts, Gunnar	42
	Blades, Ruben	43
	Bok, Edward William	44
	Booth, Evangeline Cory	45
	Borge, Victor	46
	Borglum, Gutzon	47
	Brzezinski, Zbigniew "Zbig"	48
	Bulosan, Carlos	49
	Bunkse, Edmunds	50
	Burton, Richard Walter	51
	Cabet, Etienne	53
	Cabrini, Francesca Xavier	54
	Cahan, Abraham	55
	Callas, Maria	56
	Calleros, Cleofas	57
	Calvin, William Austin	58
	Campbell, Alexander	58
	Campos, Patricia	59
	Carnegie, Andrew	60
	Carnegie, Henrietta "Hattie"	61
	Carse, Matilda Bradley	62
	Cayetano, Benjamin J.	63
	Cenarrusa, Pete	64
	Cermak, Anton "Tony" Joseph	65
	Chandrasekhar, Subrahmanyan "Chandra"	66
	Chaplin, Charlie	67
	Cherian, Joy	68
	Chin, Frank	69
	Chisholm, Shirley	70
	Christopher, Philip	71
	Christowe, Stoyan	72
	Cifuentes, Claire	73
	Cohan, George M.	74
	Colon, Jesus	75
	Conein, Lucien E.	76
	Cordova, Dorothy Laigo, and Cordova, Fred	77
	Cormier, Robert	78
	Coryn, Edward	78
	Cotton, John	80
	Cronyn, Hume	80
	Cuesta, Angel L.	81
	Daignault, Elphege J.	83
	Damrosch, Walter Johannes	84
	Das, Taraknath	85
	Davis, James John	86
	De Kooning, Willem	87
	De la Renta, Oscar	88
	Debas, Haile T.	89
	Deer, Ada E.	90
	Delany, Martin Robinson	91
	Delerue, Georges	92
	Delgado, Marcel	93
	Deloria, Vine, Jr.	94
	DeVos, Richard, and Van Andel, Jay	95
	Devoy, John	96
	Di Loreto, Edward	97
	DiMaggio, Joseph Paul	98
	Douglass, Frederick	99
	Draves, Victoria "Vicki" Manalo	100
	Drewsen, Gudrun Lochen	101
	Du Bois, W. E. B.	102
	Du Pont de Nemours, Eleuthere Irenee, and Du Pont de Nemours, Pierre Samuel	103
	Dukakis, Michael Stanley	104
	Edison, Thomas Alva	107
	Edwards, Henry Morgan	108
	Ellis, Rowland	109
	Emeagwali, Philip	110
	Enander, Johan Alfred	111
	Ericsson, John	112
	Erikson, Erik H.	113
	Escalante, Jaime Alfonso	114
	Espaillat, Rhina P.	115
	Estefan, Gloria Fajardo	116
	Etzioni, Amitai	117
	Eu, March Fong	118
	Farrell, James Thomas	121
	Fermi, Enrico	122
	Ferraro, Geraldine Anne	123
	Figueroa, Elizabeth	124
	Fischer-Galati, Stephen	125
	Flynn, Elizabeth Gurley	126
	Ford, Patrick	127
	Forman, Milos	128
	Friml, Rudolf	129
	Furuseth, Andrew	129
	Gallatin, Albert	131
	Garbo, Greta	132
	Geiringer, Hilda	133
	Giannini, Amadeo P. "A. P."	134
	Gibran, Kahlil	135
	Goizueta, Roberto	136
	Goldman, Emma	136
	Gompers, Samuel	138
	Gonzales, Rodolfo "Corky"	138
	Gonzalez, Henry B.	140
	Gregorian, Vartan	140
	Groth, Dijana	141
	Gutierrez, Jose Angel	142
	Hagedorn, Jessica	145
	Hakim, Thomas	146
	Hall, Gus	147
	Hancock, Ian F.	148
	Hanson, Howard Harold	149
	al-Hibri, Azizah Y.	149
	Hill, James Jerome	151
	Hill, William	151
	Howe, Irving	152
	Hrdlicka, Ales	153
	Hughes, John	154
	Hurja, Emil	155
	Hutchinson, Anne	156
	Idar, Jovita	159
	Inouye, Daniel Ken	160
	Ivask, Ivar Vidrik	161
	Jalali, Reza	163
	Jao, Frank	164
	Jean, Nelust Wyclef	165
	Johnson, John Harold	166
	Jones, Mary Harris "Mother Jones"	167
	Kahanamoku, Duke	169
	Karimi, Mansoorali	170
	Kaupas, Casmira	171
	Kazan, Elia	172
	Kerkorian, Kerkor "Kirk"	173
	Kerouac, Jean-Louis "Jack"	174
	Kilian, Jan	175
	King, Martin Luther, Jr.	176
	Kingston, Maxine Hong	177
	Knudsen, William S.	178
	Kochiyama, Yuri	179
	Kohut, Rebekah Bettelheim	180
	Kolff, Willem Johan	181
	Kono, Tamio "Tommy"	182
	Krol, John Joseph	183
	Kubler-Ross, Elizabeth	184
	Kuniyoshi, Yasuo	185
	Kviklys, Bronius	186
	La Guardia, Fiorello Henry	189
	LaFlesche Picotte, Susan	190
	Laurens, Henry	191
	Lausche, Frank J.	192
	Laxalt, Paul, and Laxalt, Robert	193
	Lazarus, Emma	195
	Lee, Ang	196
	Lee Bing	197
	Lee, Choua Eve	197
	Lee, Sammy	199
	Lee Tsung-Dao	199
	Lennon, John	200
	Lewis, John L.	201
	Lewis, Loida Nicolas	202
	Liam, Alison Prapaislip	203
	Lieberman, Joseph Isadore	204
	Lin, Maya	205
	Linares, Guillermo	206
	Lindbergh, Charles Augustus, Sr.	207
	Loewy, Raymond	208
	Lopez, Alfonso "Al" Ramon	209
	Luahine, Iolani	210
	Lugosi, Bela	211
	MacNeil, Robert Breckenridge Ware	213
	Makemie, Francis	214
	Makino, Fred Kinzaburo	215
	Malcolm X	215
	Mallet, Edmond	217
	Manoogian, Alex	217
	Marohnic, Josip	219
	Marshall, Louis	220
	Marshall, Thurgood	221
	Marti, Jose	222
	Martin, Xavier	223
	Martinez, Elizabeth "Betita"	224
	Massey, Raymond Hart	225
	Mattson, Hans	226
	Maximovitch, John	227
	Mayer, Louis B.	227
	Mazrui, Ali A.	228
	McClure, Samuel Sidney	229
	McGarrity, Joseph	230
	McKay, Claude	231
	Mehta, Ved Parkash	232
	Melchior, Lauritz	233
	Mellon, Thomas	234
	Mikulski, Barbara Ann	235
	Minh-ha, Trinh T.	236
	Miyamura, Hiroshi "Hershey"	237
	Miyasato, Albert H.	238
	Montejo, Victor Dionicio	239
	Moreno, Luisa	240
	Morgan, Garrett Augustus	241
	Mouton, Alexandre	242
	Muhlenberg, Henry Melchior	243
	Muir, John	245
	Mukherjee, Bharati	246
	Musial, Stanley Frank	247
	Muskie, Edmund Sixtus	248
	Nader, Albert S. "Sam"	251
	Nader, Ralph	252
	Nagy, Ferenc	253
	Naismith, James	254
	Navratilova, Martina	255
	Nelson, Knute	256
	Nestor, Agnes	257
	Nevelson, Louise	258
	Ng Poon Chew	259
	Novak, Michael John	260
	Novotna, Jarmila	261
	Oakar, Mary Rose	263
	Oh, Angela	264
	Olson, Floyd Bjornsterne	265
	O'Neill, Eugene G.	266
	O'Reilly, Leonora	267
	Otero, Miguel, Jr.	268
	Othman, Talat Mohamad	269
	Ottendorfer, Anna Behr Uhl	270
	Owen, Robert Dale	271
	Paine, Thomas	273
	Palance, Jack	274
	Pantoja, Antonia	274
	Papanicolaou, George Nicholas	275
	Paul, William Lewis, Sr.	277
	Payan, Ilka Tanya	278
	Pei, I. M.	278
	Penn, William	279
	Perales, Alonso S.	280
	Perpich, Rudolph "Rudy" George	281
	Peterson, Esther Eggertsen	282
	Petrescu, Paul	283
	Piasecki, Frank Nicholas	284
	Pickford, Mary	285
	Pierre, Frantz Marie	286
	Poitier, Sidney	287
	Pope	288
	Pothier, Aram Jules	289
	Powell, Colin	290
	Prisland, Marie	291
	Pritsak, Omelian	292
	Puente, Ernest "Tito" Anthony, Jr.	293
	Pukui, Mary Kawena	294
	Pupin, Michael Idvorski	295
	Quill, Michael	297
	Quintal, Claire	298
	Qureshey, Safi Urrehman	299
	Rahman, Fazlur	301
	Ramos, Leda G.	302
	Ramsey, Meserak "Mimi"	303
	Randolph, A. Philip	304
	Red Cloud	305
	Reuther, Walter Philip	306
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