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This guide, originally compiled for the 2005 National Library Week Celebration, “Many Faces, One State”, outlines a very small sampling of the websites and books available at the State Library on the many ethnic groups that have made Massachusetts home. Although our Online Catalog includes many additional titles, our collection is by no means exhaustive. Other materials are available at the Boston Public Library and local libraries throughout the state.
 

Books

Immigrants and General Immigration Trends

Annual report of the Division of Immigration and Americanization. Boston, MA : Wright & Potter Printing Co., State Printers, 1920-. Mass Room 325.7M3 B95r.

Golden, Hilda H. Immigrant and native families: the impact of immigration on the demographic transformation of western Massachusetts, 1850-1900. Lanham, MD : University Press of America, c1994. JV7002.S63 G65 1993.

1997 demographic update : refugees and immigrants in Massachusetts. Boston, MA : Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Executive Office of Health and Human Services, Office for Refugees and Immigrants, 1997. Mass Room 361M3 D46 1997.

Statistics of immigrant aliens in Massachusetts, 1895-1914 . Boston, MA : Bureau of Statistics, 1915. Mass Room 331 .021M3 S82 1915.

Sum, Andrew. The changing workforce: immigrants and the new economy in Massachusetts. [Boston, MA] : Massachusetts Institute for a New Commonwealth, c1999. HD8081.M4 S86 1999.

United States Census Materials dating from 1790.

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African Americans

Bailey, Ronald. Lower Roxbury: a community of treasures in the city of Boston. Boston, MA : Produced and published for the Lower Roxbury Community Corporation by the Dept. of African-American Studies, Northeastern University, c1993. F74.R891 B35 1993.

Bolster, W. Jeffrey. Black jacks: African American seamen in the age of sail. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 1997. VK221 .B65 1997.

Dorman, Franklin A. Twenty families of color in Massachusetts: 1742-1998. Boston, MA : New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1998. E185.96.D65 1998.

King, Kendra A. African-American community development corporation-led redevelopment in Boston. 2000. HT177.B6 K56 2000.

Massachusetts Black Legislative Caucus. Blacks on Beacon Hill. Boston : Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Great and General Court, Massachusetts Black Caucus, [1987?]. Mass Room 550M3 B63 B54 1987.

We fight for freedom: Massachusetts, African Americans, and the Civil War. Boston, MA : [Massachusetts Historical Society], 1993. E540.N3 W3 1993.

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Armenian Americans

Deranian, Hagop Martin. Worcester is America: the story of Worcester’s Armenians: the early years. Worcester, MA : Bennate Publishing, 1998. F75.A7 D47 1998.

Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration of Massachusetts. The Armenians in Massachusetts. Boston, MA : The Armenian historical society, 1937. F75.A7 F4.

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Asian Americans

The Asians: Quincy’s newest immigrants. Quincy, MA : The Patriot Ledger, [1989]. F74.Q71 A47 1989.

Watanabe, Paul. Asian Americans in Metro Boston : growth, diversity, and complexity. Boston, MA : University of Massachusetts Boston, 2004.  Mass Room 378.32M3 A85 2004.

Watanabe, Paul. Enabling the Asian American electorate : 2003 voter registration in eleven Massachusetts cities and towns. Boston, MA : Insitute for Asian American Studies, University of Massachusetts Boston, 2004. Mass Room 378.32M3 E53 2004.

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British Americans

Anderson, Virgnia DeJohn. New England’s generation: the great migration and the formation of society and culture in the seventeenth century. Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1991. F7 .A53 1991.

Thompson, Roger. Mobility and migration: East Anglican founders of New England, 1629-1640. Amherst, MA : University of Massachusetts Press, c1994. F15.B7 T46 1994.

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Cambodian Americans

Niedzwiecki, William R. The world turned upside down: Khmer-American status, identity, and cultural conflicts in institutional contexts. 1998. F90.K45 N54 1998.

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Cape Verdean Americans

Halter, Marilyn. Between race and ethnicity: Cape Verdean American immigrants, 1860-1965. Urbana, IL : University of Illinois Press, c1993. E184.C24 H34 1993.

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French Americans

Santerre, Richard. La paroisse Saint Jean-Baptiste et les Franco-Americains de Lowell, Massachusetts, 1868 a 1968. Manchester, NH : Editions Lafayette, 1993. F74.L9 S26 1993.

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French Canadian Americans

Albert, Felix. Immigrant odyssey: a French-Canadian habitant in New England = a bilingual edition of Histoire d’un enfant pauvre. Orono, ME : University of Maine Press, 1991. F74.L9 A4313 1991.

Brault, Gerard J. The French-Canadian heritage in New England. Hanover : University Press of New England ; Kingston : McGill-Queen's University Press, 1986. F15.F85 B73 1986.

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German Americans

McCaffery, Robert. Islands of Deutschtum: German-Americans in Manchester, New Hampshire and Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1870-1942. New York : Peter Lang, c1996. F44.M2 M38 1996.

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Greek Americans

Gage, Nicholas. A place for us. Boston, MA : Houghton Mifflin, 1989. CT275.G225 A3 1989.

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Hispanic Americans

Latino politics in Massachusetts: struggles, strategies, and prospects. New York : Routledge, 2002. F75.S75 L37 2002.

Rivera, Ralph. Latinos in Massachusetts and the 1990 U.S. census: growth and geographical distribution. Boston, MA : Mauricio Gaston Institute for Latino Community Development and Public Policy, [1991]. Mass Room 378.32M3 L38 no. 91-01.

Torres, Andres. Latinos in Massachusetts : an update. Boston, MA : Mauricio Gaston Institute, University of Massachusetts, [1998]. Mass Room 378.32M3 L38 1998.

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Irish Americans

MacNamara, Daniel George. The history of the ninth regiment, Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, June 1861-June 1864. New York : Fordham University Press, 2000. E513.5 9th .M33 2000.

O’Connor, Thomas H. The Boston Irish: a political history. Boston, MA : Northeastern University Press, c1995. F73.9.I6 O28 1995.

O’Connor, Thomas H. South Boston, my home town: the history of an ethnic neighborhood. Boston, MA : Northeastern University Press, 1994. F73.68.S7 O27 1994.

Powers, Vincent Edward. “Invisible immigrants”: the pre-famine Irish community in Worcester, Massachusetts, from 1826 to 1860. Ann Arbor, MI : University Microfilms, 1977. F75.I6 P6 1977.

Quinlin, Michael P. Irish Boston. Guilford, CT : Globe Pequot Press, c2004. F73.9.I6 Q46 2004.

Ryan, Dennis P. Beyond the ballot box: a social history of the Boston Irish, 1845-1917. Amherst, MA : University of Massachusetts Press, 1989, c1983. F73.9.I6 R9 1989.

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Italian Americans

DiFelice, Geoto. The Italians in Everett: from the first immigrant to today’s generation. Everett, MA : [s.n.], c1992. E184.I8 D54 1992.

Marchione, William P. Italian Americans of Greater Boston: a proud tradition. Charleston, SC : Arcadia, c1999. F73.9.I8 M37 1999.

Puleo, Stephen. From Italy to Boston’s North End: Italian immigration and settlement, 1890-1910: a thesis. [Boston, MA : s.n.], 1994. F73.9.I8 P8 1994x.

Riccio, Anthony V. Portrait of an Italian-American neighborhood: the North End of Boston. New York : Center for Migration Studies, 1998. F73.9.I8 R53 1998.

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Jewish Americans

On common ground: the Boston Jewish experience, 1649-1980. Waltham, MA : American Jewish Historical Society, c1981. F73.9.J5 O5.

The Jews of Boston : essays on the occasion of the centenary 1895-1995) of the Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston. Boston, MA : Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston, 1995. F73.9.J5 J4 1995.

“Three centuries of American Jewish history in Massachusetts,” by Lee M. Friedman, IN 11 Bostonian Society Proceedings (1954).

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Native Americans

After King Philip's War : presence and persistence in Indian New England. Hanover, NH : University Press of New England, c1997. E78.N5 A17 1997.

Life along the Merrimac: collected histories of the native Americans who lived on its banks. Tyngsborough, MA : Merrimac River Press, c1995. F72.M6 L54 1995.

Peters, Russell M. The Wampanoags of Mashpee : an Indian perspective on American history. Boston, MA : Nimrod Press, 1987. E99.W2 P48 1987.

Philbrick, Nathaniel. Abram's eyes : the Native American legacy of Nantucket Island. Nantucket, MA : Mill Hill Press, c1998.   E78.M4 P45 1998.

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Southeast Asian Americans

Higgins, James. Southeast Asians: a new beginning in Lowell. Lowell, MA : Mill Town Graphics, c1986. F74.L91 H58 1986.

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Portuguese Americans

Moniz, Rita. The Portuguese of New Bedford, Massachusetts and Providence, Rhode Island : a comparative micro-analysis of political attitudes and behavior. [Providence, RI : s.n.], 1979, c1980. F74.N48 M6.

Portuguese Spinner : an American story : stories of history, culture, and life from Portuguese Americans in southeastern New England. New Bedford, MA : Spinner Pub., c1998. F15.P8 P67 1998.

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Swedish Americans

Estus, Charles W. Ga till Amerika: the Swedish creation of an ethnic identity for Worcester, Massachusetts. Worcester, MA : Worcester Historical Museum, c1994. F74.W91 E88 1994.

 
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Websites
Historical and Genealogical Sites

Boston Family History.com

“Researching Your Family's History” from the Massachusetts Archives

Resources Available at the National Archives Center in Waltham, MA

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Immigrant and Refugee Resources

List of Massachusetts Immigration Service Agencies from MassResources.org

Massachusetts Office of Refugees and Immigrants

Resource List from the Massachusetts Immigration and Refugee Advocacy Coalition

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The Immigration Experience and Trends

Boston Public Library Booklist: “ Identities: Contemporary Narratives of Post-Immigration Experience in America”

Fact Sheets of Massachusetts Immigration Trends from the Federation for American Immigration Reform

Massachusetts Area Planning Council Demographic Profiles for 1990 and 2000

Massachusetts Community Health Information Profile (MassCHIP)

Profile about Immigrant Workers from MassInc.org

US Census for Massachusetts:
       Ancestry 2000  1990
       Language Spoken at Home 2000  1990
       Place of Birth for Foreign Born Population 2000
       Race 2000  1990
       American Fact Finder for custom searches

 
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