{"title":"Out of Many, One: Portraits of America's Immigrants","authors":"J. J. Bukowczyk","doi":"10.5406/23300833.79.2.06","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/23300833.79.2.06","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":82333,"journal":{"name":"Polish American studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49531021","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Colonial Fantasies, Imperial Realities: Race Science and the Making of Polishness on the Fringes of the German Empire, 1840–1920","authors":"P. Versteegh","doi":"10.5406/23300833.79.2.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/23300833.79.2.10","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":82333,"journal":{"name":"Polish American studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48634874","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Voice of the Silenced Peoples in the Global Cold War: The Assembly of Captive European Nations, 1954–1972","authors":"Sławomir Łukasiewicz","doi":"10.5406/23300833.79.2.09","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/23300833.79.2.09","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":82333,"journal":{"name":"Polish American studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45945021","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The People of Hamtramck: Some Reflections on Belonging, Agency, and Being Polish American","authors":"Annabel Müller","doi":"10.5406/23300833.79.2.05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/23300833.79.2.05","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This article presents a selective portrayal of the Polish Americans of Hamtramck based on a collection of oral interviews conducted in the summers of 2014 and 2015. It argues that Hamtramck is best understood through the concept of “tangible belonging,” which historian John Swanson defines as an identity that is built in connection with a mental construct derived from the tactile environment in which an individual lives and experiences through the various senses of vision, sound, smell, touch, and so forth. Each generation and wave of immigrants understood differently their Polish and Polish American identity, which developed via a complex connection with Hamtramck's fabric of life over the years.","PeriodicalId":82333,"journal":{"name":"Polish American studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46266834","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Blondes of Wisconsin","authors":"S. Shea","doi":"10.5406/23300833.79.2.07","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/23300833.79.2.07","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":82333,"journal":{"name":"Polish American studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49301623","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hamtramck at 100 Years: Polish Political Power in a Changing City","authors":"Karen Majewski","doi":"10.5406/23300833.79.2.02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/23300833.79.2.02","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 In 2022, the City of Hamtramck celebrates its centennial. On January 1 of that year, it also inaugurated a Yemeni immigrant as its first mayor who is not of Polish descent, as well as a completely Muslim city council, including a Polish American convert to Islam. Written by the last Polish mayor in that nearly hundred-year succession, this article combines history and personal experience while looking at the Polish dominance of local politics beginning with the ethnically charged decision to incorporate, continuing through the decades of Polish rule in relation to other ethnic and racial groups in the city, and chronicling the gradual unraveling of that power. While Hamtramck's experience is not unlike that of other former Polonian strongholds, it is also unique in its longevity and the symbolic significance it has come to embody through its very public demographic and political trajectory. This overview of the competition for elected office in Hamtramck provides a lens through which to view the ongoing transition of the city's civic identity.","PeriodicalId":82333,"journal":{"name":"Polish American studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43048154","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Is Hamtramck Still Polish? Examining the Rise of Bangladeshi Visibility and Political Participation in Hamtramck","authors":"Sunanda Samaddar Corrado","doi":"10.5406/23300833.79.2.04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/23300833.79.2.04","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Hamtramck, known for its Polish, Catholic, working-class roots, has transmuted its Old World charm into a Small World appeal. With less than 7 percent of residents claiming Polish roots, how does the city's Polish history continue to provide an uninterrupted space for ethnic political participation? Hamtramck has become a port for more detailed explorations of the relationship between local governance and cultural self-determination and interrogations of the role of race, nationalism, citizenship, and belonging. This article explores the ascension of Bangladeshi visibility in a city experiencing tumultuous flux in population and culture. This article describes the Bangladeshi experience between the election of the first Polish female mayor in 2005 and the election of Hamtramck's first Muslim mayor in 2022 in terms of Bangladeshis’ political participation and how their contributions led to a renarrativization of the city.","PeriodicalId":82333,"journal":{"name":"Polish American studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48903256","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Untold Stories of Polish Heroes from World War II","authors":"Janusz Duzinkiewicz","doi":"10.5406/23300833.79.2.08","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/23300833.79.2.08","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":82333,"journal":{"name":"Polish American studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44867573","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mosqueing the Marketplace: Business as (Un)Usual in Hamtramck","authors":"Sally Howell","doi":"10.5406/23300833.79.2.03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/23300833.79.2.03","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Hamtramck, Michigan, is the first Muslim-majority city in the US, has the nation's first all Muslim city council, and likely boasts the highest number of mosques per capita as well. Yet as recently as the 1970s, Hamtramck was the center of the Polish diaspora, and was home instead to the nation's highest concentration of bars. Muslim entrepreneurs, primarily from Yemen and Bangladesh, stand poised to revitalize Hamtramck's economy by investing in the city's growing halal marketplace. This article explores two recent efforts to revitalize the city's economy, especially its downtown business district, and the ways in which conflicts over space there are quickly translated into an idiom of religious belonging or exclusion. The symbiotic relationship that exists in metro Detroit between mosques and small businesses may be a healthy one in economic terms, but it also extends the sphere of cultural and religious praxis for Muslims and non-Muslims alike and is therefore met with resistance by many of the same people who consume, market, and embody this distinction, even as they also work to disrupt and redefine what it means.","PeriodicalId":82333,"journal":{"name":"Polish American studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41916164","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Roman Pucinski: A Daughter's Memoir","authors":"Aurelia Marie Pucinski","doi":"10.5406/23300833.79.1.03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/23300833.79.1.03","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The daughter of Roman and Aurelia Bordin Pucinski, Aurelia Marie Pucinski earned a baccalaureate degree in history from Catholic University of America in Washington, DC, and a JD from DePaul University College of Law in Chicago. In 2004, she became a judge on the Cook County (Illinois) Circuit Court and in 2010 gained election to a seat on the Illinois Appellate Court. As the daughter of Roman Pucinski and a community activist in her own right, she provides in this memoir an intimate “insider” look at her father's work as a congressman and an alderman and in the Polish community, as well as that of her grandmother, Lidia Pucinski.","PeriodicalId":82333,"journal":{"name":"Polish American studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43682479","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}