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Polish Immigrants And Industrial Chicago, Dominic Pacyga
Polish Immigrants And Industrial Chicago, Dominic Pacyga
Dominic Pacyga
How did working-class immigrants from Poland create new communities in Chicago during the industrial age? This book explores the lives of immigrants in two iconic Polish neighborhoods—the Back of the Yards and South Chicago—and the stockyards and steel mills in which they made their living.
Pacyga shows how Poles forged communities on the South Side in an attempt to preserve the customs of their homeland—how through the development of churches, the building of schools, the founding of street gangs, and the opening of saloons they tried to recreate the feel of an Eastern European village. Through such institutions, Poles also …
The Inter Allied Games Of 1919, Don Morrow
Physical Fitness & Wellness, Donald Morrow
Provocatrice, Scandaleuse Et Inhumaine: Georgette Leblanc Et L’Inhumaine (1924), Maureen Shanahan
Provocatrice, Scandaleuse Et Inhumaine: Georgette Leblanc Et L’Inhumaine (1924), Maureen Shanahan
Maureen G. Shanahan
No abstract provided.
Walt Whitman And New Biographical Criticism, Randall Knoper
Walt Whitman And New Biographical Criticism, Randall Knoper
Randall Knoper
No abstract provided.
African American Student Athletes' Perceptions Of Career Transition In Sport: A Qualitative And Visual Elicitation, Keith Harrison
African American Student Athletes' Perceptions Of Career Transition In Sport: A Qualitative And Visual Elicitation, Keith Harrison
Dr. C. Keith Harrison
This study focuses on 26 African American athletes and explores their perceptions of athletic career transition. Participants consisted of student athletes from a United States National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division IIA institution in the Southeastern region. Participants completed the Life After Sports Scale (LASS), a 58-item inventory utilized to qualitatively and quantitatively examine seven different domains which influence perceptions of the career transition process. The scope of this inquiry examines the qualitative domain of the LASS in which participants were visually primed with a narrative description of a student athlete that has made transition out of sport successfully. Five …