 | Between Race and Ethnicity : Cape Verdean American Immigrants, 1860-1965 Marilyn Halter combines oral history with analyses of ships' records to chart the history and adaptation patterns of the Cape Verdean Americans. Though identifying themselves in ethnic terms, Cape Verdeans found that their African-European ancestry led their new society to view them as a racial group. Halter emphasizes racial and ethnic identity formation to show how Cape Verdeans set themselves apart from the African Americans while attempting to shrug off white society's exclusionary tactics. She also contrasts rural life on the bogs of Cape Cod with New Bedford's urban community to reveal the ways immigrants established their own social and religious groups as they strove to maintain their Crioulo customs. Marilyn Halter is an associate professor of history and a research associate at the Institute for the Study of Economic Culture at Boston University. She is the author of Between Race and Ethnicity and New Migrants in the Marketplace. She lives in New Bedford, Massachusetts. (Bowker Author Biography) |
