TY - BOOK ID - 77901992 TI - The life stories of undistinguished Americans, as told by themselves PY - 2000 SN - 0559311168 113595979X 128040714X 9786610407149 0203901908 0203901916 9780203901915 9780203901908 9780415925105 041592510X 9780559311161 6610407142 9781135959746 9781135959784 9781135959791 9781138432260 PB - New York : Routledge, DB - UniCat KW - Minorities KW - Ethnic minorities KW - Foreign population KW - Minority groups KW - Persons KW - Assimilation (Sociology) KW - Discrimination KW - Ethnic relations KW - Majorities KW - Plebiscite KW - Race relations KW - Segregation KW - United States KW - Ethnic relations. KW - Race relations. KW - Race question UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77901992 AB - Hamilton Holt, editor of The Independent, collected these touching autobiographies of ordinary people--new immigrants and sharecroppers, cooks and fishermen, women and men working in sweatshops, in the city, and on the land. First published in 1906, and reissued a decade ago, this new edition of Life Stories of Undistinguished Americans is expanded to include lives Holt did not include in his original selection, as well as a new preface by Werner Sollors. ER -