Poles in Detroit
Negotiating Ethnic Boundaries: Polish American music in Detroit by Call Number: PK Stacks: ML 3560 .P65 S28 2004ISBN: 0899901263Publication Date: 2004 (Warren, Mich. : Harmonie Park Press)The first few chapters of this book give an in-depth description of the general context of Polish community in Detroit.
Horn Man: the Polish-American musician in twentieth-century Detroit by Call Number: UGL Stacks: ML 200.8 .D47 P35 2003ISBN: 0814331920Publication Date: 2003 (Detroit : American-Polish Music Society)Detroit and its strong Polish community share in America's rich history of Polish music and customs. This work documents that history and details the development of the Polish-American musicians in Detroit who became known as polka musicians, even though their music was very diversified.
Poles in Michigan by Call Number: UGL Stacks: F 575 .P7 B33 2002ISBN: 0870136186Publication Date: 2002 (East Lansing : Michigan State University Press)Poles have a long history of migration and settlement in the Great Lakes State. Paczki Day and Polish festivals represent a relatively small portion of the Polish experience. Chapters include: Poles in Michigan -- Early Poles in Michigan -- Outstate Polish settlements -- Metropolitan Detroit -- Hamtramck -- George and Mary Jablonski -- Assimilation and acculturation -- The Catholic Church -- Father Theodor G. Bateski -- Education -- Military -- Politics -- Frank and Lillian Szymanski -- Sports -- Stanley Ketchel -- Polish recipesThe Polish Experience in Detroit by
Call Number: PK Stacks: F 575 .P7 P65 1992ISBN: 0910552121Publication Date: 1992 (Detroit, Mich. : Endurance Press)
West of Warsaw by Call Number: PK Stacks: F 574 .H22 S47 1983ISBN: 9780910977005Publication Date: 1983 (Hamtramck, MI : Avenue Pub. Co.)
Poletown Lives! by Call Number: UGL DVD POL (Request for delivery to Circulation Desk)Publication Date: 1982 (Detroit, Mich. : Information Factory)Documentary that tells, from the residents' point of view, the story of Poletown, an inner-city Detroit neighborhood that was destroyed in 1981 when the city used its power of eminent domain to turn the land over to General Motors for construction of a Cadillac plant. Shows the changes in attitudes as the people realized that the institutions they trusted -- the courts, the United Auto Workers, the church, the City Council, and the media --were not going to help them.
Our Way: family, parish, and neighborhood in a Polish-American community by Call Number: PK Stacks: F574.D49 P78 & Storage: 213564ISBN: 0268014949Publication Date: 1979 (Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press)
Enduring Poles by Call Number: PK Stacks: F 575 .P7 M54ISBN: 0918020018Publication Date: 1977 (Mount Clemens, Mich. : Masspac Pub. Co.)
Parisville Poles: first Polish settlers in U.S.A.? by Call Number: PK Stacks: F 574 .P3 P37ISBN: 0918020034Publication Date: 1977 (Mt. Clemens, Mich. : Masspac Pub. Co.)
The Polish Daily [Dziennik polski] by Call Number: [Electronic holdings from Center for Research Libraries, Chicago]Publication Date: 1936
Reference Resources
A Fifty Year Index to Polish American Studies, 1944-1993 by Call Number: PK Stacks: E 184 .P7 P871 Index 1998ISBN: 0880333928Publication Date: 1998 (Boulder : East European Monographs ; New York : Distributed by Columbia University Press)In 1992, the Polish American Historical Association celebrated 50 years as one of the world's leading organizations dedicated to the study of Polish immigration in the Americas. Published twice each year since 1944, the organization's Polish American Studies includes articles, reviews, and other scholarly material, in all of the humanities and social sciences, related to the history of Poles in the Western hemisphere. The first 50 volumes are now indexed, providing what should be a convenient tool for scholars of the ethnic experience in the Americas.
The Polish peasant in Europe and America by Call Number: [Electronic Book - HathiTrust]Publication Date: 1918-1920 (Chicago, Ill. : The University of Chicago press)Can also be used in the Reuther Library (Reuther Books 773)
