Joel Perlmann
Biographic Data
| ID | 3684832 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joel Perlmann |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joel |
| FAMILY NAME | Perlmann |
| SIGNATURE | PERLMANN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Levy Economics Institute of Bard College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 263 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
America Classifies the Immigrants
When more than twenty million immigrants arrived in the United States between 1880 and 1920, the government attempted to classify them according to prevailing ideas about race and nationality. But this proved hard to do. Ideas about racial or national difference were slippery, contested, and yet consequential-were "Hebrews" a "race," a "religion," or a "people"? As Joel Perlmann shows, a self-appointed pair of officials created the government's 1…
America Classifies the Immigrants
Joel Perlmann traces the history of U.S. classification of immigrants, from Ellis Island to the present day, showing how slippery and contested ideas about racial, national, and ethnic difference have been. His focus ranges from the 1897 List of Races and Peoples, through changes in the civil rights era, to proposals for reform of the 2020 Census.
The American Jewish Future after Immigration and Ethnicity Fade
H. A. Wolfson arrived in the United States at 16 from the Lithuanian region of the Russian Empire and at Harvard as a freshman five years later. He remained at Harvard until his death in 1974, as Emeritus Professor of Hebrew Literature and Philosophy. Among the most important historians of western religious philosophy, he published on contemporary issues only until 1925 and even then only rarely. Nevertheless, his 1918 article, “Pomegranates”, de…
Single and Mixed Origins in the Census and in American Jewish Sociology
Secularists and Those of No Religion
Italians Then, Mexicans Now
Migrations, integration, discriminations
Women's Work
Journal Article Women's Work?: American Schoolteachers, 1650– 1920 Get access Women's Work?: American Schoolteachers, 1650– 1920. By Perlmann Joel and Margo Robert A.. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. x, 188 pp. $32.00, isbn0-226-66039-7.) Kathleen C. Berkeley Kathleen C. Berkeley University of North CarolinaWilmington, North Carolina Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History,…
Women's Work? American Schoolteachers, 1650-1920
This text blends quantitative evidence with historical narrative to show that distinctive regional school structures and related cultural patterns account for the initial regional difference in proportions of female teachers in schools in America
Immigrants, Schooling and Social Mobility
Immigrants, Schooling and Social Mobility confronts a central issue in the study of immigration and ethnicity - the opposition between culture and structure - and presents a collection of essays that
Second generations
This paper takes a doubting, though friendly, look at the hypotheses of “second generation deciine ” and “segmented assimiiation ” that have framed the emerging research agenda on the new second generation. We begin with a review of the basic approach, outlining the logic of argument, and specifying the central contentions.We then head toward the past, in search of material that will illuminate both the parallels and points of distinction between…
Second Generation Decline? Children of Immigrants, Past and Present-A Reconsideration
Joel Perlmann, Roger Waldinger, Second Generation Decline? Children of Immigrants, Past and Present-A Reconsideration, The International Migration Review, Vol. 31, No. 4, Special Issue: Immigrant Adaptation and Native-Born Responses in the Making of Americans (Winter, 1997), pp. 893-922
Literacy, Schooling, and Teaching among New England Women, 1730-1820
Joel Perlmann, Silvana R. Siddali, Keith Whitescarver, Literacy, Schooling, and Teaching among New England Women, 1730-1820, History of Education Quarterly, Vol. 37, No. 2, Special Issue on Education in Early America (Summer, 1997), pp. 117-139
Second Generation Decline? Children of Immigrants, past and Present -A Reconsideration
Is the contemporary second generation on the road to the upward mobility and assimilation that in retrospect characterized the second generation of earlier immigrations? Or are the American economic context and the racial origins of today's immigration likely to result in a much less favorable future for the contemporary second generation? While several recent papers have argued for the latter position, we suspect they are too pessimistic. We bri…
Multiracials, Intermarriage, Ethnicity
The White Ethnic Experience in America
When Did New England Women Acquire Literacy
URING the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries the proportion of New England women with some education increased substantially. Historians have studied this phenomenon at two levels. One level concerns advanced education-the development of female academies and colleges with serious academic curricula. The other concerns the acquisition of basic literacy. Recently, much more attention has been accorded to the first topic, perhaps because…
Ethnic Differences in the Classroom
Ethnic Differences
Toward the Melting Pot
Ethnic Differences
Journal Article Ethnic Differences: Schooling and Social Structure among the Irish, Italians, Jews, and Blacks in an American City, 1880–1935. By Joel Perlmann. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988. x + 327 pp. $42.50.) Get access V. P. Franklin V. P. Franklin Arizona State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 4, March 1990, Pages 1284–1285, https:…
Historical Legacies
This article first describes the historical record on the use of immigrant languages in American schools, concentrating on the important nineteenth-century experience with German but touching also on other groups, the 1880-1920 period, and parochial schools. The article then turns to the issue of school achievement by immigrants circa 1910, when public school policy did not provide for the use of immigrant languages to support that achievement
Ethnic Differences
Ethnic Differences
Who Were America's Teachers
(1989). Who Were America's Teachers?: Toward a Social History and a Data Archive. Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History: Vol. 22, No. 2, pp. 68-73
Second Generation Decline? Children of Immigrants, past and Present -A Reconsideration
Is the contemporary second generation on the road to the upward mobility and assimilation that in retrospect characterized the second generation of earlier immigrations? Or are the American economic context and the racial origins of today's immigration likely to result in a much less favorable future for the contemporary second generation? While several recent papers have argued for the latter position, we suspect they are too pessimistic. We bri…
Second Generation Decline? Children of Immigrants, Past and Present-A Reconsideration
Joel Perlmann, Roger Waldinger, Second Generation Decline? Children of Immigrants, Past and Present-A Reconsideration, The International Migration Review, Vol. 31, No. 4, Special Issue: Immigrant Adaptation and Native-Born Responses in the Making of Americans (Winter, 1997), pp. 893-922
Second generations
This paper takes a doubting, though friendly, look at the hypotheses of “second generation deciine ” and “segmented assimiiation ” that have framed the emerging research agenda on the new second generation. We begin with a review of the basic approach, outlining the logic of argument, and specifying the central contentions.We then head toward the past, in search of material that will illuminate both the parallels and points of distinction between…
Ethnic Differences
Ethnic Differences, first published in 1989, explores how and why the Irish, Italians, Jews, and blacks of Providence, Rhode Island differed in their schooling and economic success. Drawing on evidence from thousands of students records of public, Catholic, and private schools, as well as on census manuscripts, city directories, and other sources, the book offers an integrated study of American ethnicity, education, and social structure. Joel Per…
Women's Work? American Schoolteachers, 1650-1920
This text blends quantitative evidence with historical narrative to show that distinctive regional school structures and related cultural patterns account for the initial regional difference in proportions of female teachers in schools in America
Who Stayed in School? Social Structure and Academic Achievement in the Determination of Enrollment Patterns, Providence, Rhode Island, 1880-1925
Journal Article Who Stayed in School? Social Structure and Academic Achievement in the Determination of Enrollment Patterns, Providence, Rhode Island, 1880–1925 Get access Joel Perlmann Joel Perlmann assistant professor Graduate School of Education, Harvard University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 72, Issue 3, December 1985, Pages 588–614, https://doi.org/10.2307/19043…
When Did New England Women Acquire Literacy
URING the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries the proportion of New England women with some education increased substantially. Historians have studied this phenomenon at two levels. One level concerns advanced education-the development of female academies and colleges with serious academic curricula. The other concerns the acquisition of basic literacy. Recently, much more attention has been accorded to the first topic, perhaps because…
Historical Legacies
This article first describes the historical record on the use of immigrant languages in American schools, concentrating on the important nineteenth-century experience with German but touching also on other groups, the 1880-1920 period, and parochial schools. The article then turns to the issue of school achievement by immigrants circa 1910, when public school policy did not provide for the use of immigrant languages to support that achievement
Working-Class Homeownership and Children's Schooling in Providence, Rhode Island 1880-1925
When Stephan Thernstrom studied the children of laborers who lived in mid-nineteenth century Newburyport, Massachusetts, he made striking discovery. The sons of those who had managed to purchase a home were less likely to be upwardly mobile. This finding, which at first sight seems so counterintuitive, Thernstrom explained in a manner that bears directly on the determinants of schooling in the nineteenth century
Using Census Districts in Analysis, Record Linkage, and Sampling
Using Census Districts in Analysis, Record Linkage, and Sampling The United States Census Bureau, in order to facilitate the process of enumeration, has divided larger political units (states, counties, or cities) into more manageable ones. In the censuses between 1850 and 1870 these units of enumeration were known as subdivisions; later they were referred to as enumeration districts. The manuscript schedules between i850 and 1900 indicate the en…
Literacy, Schooling, and Teaching among New England Women, 1730-1820
Joel Perlmann, Silvana R. Siddali, Keith Whitescarver, Literacy, Schooling, and Teaching among New England Women, 1730-1820, History of Education Quarterly, Vol. 37, No. 2, Special Issue on Education in Early America (Summer, 1997), pp. 117-139
Ethnic Differences
Journal Article Ethnic Differences: Schooling and Social Structure among the Irish, Italians, Jews, and Blacks in an American City, 1880–1935. By Joel Perlmann. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988. x + 327 pp. $42.50.) Get access V. P. Franklin V. P. Franklin Arizona State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 4, March 1990, Pages 1284–1285, https:…
Who Were America's Teachers
(1989). Who Were America's Teachers?: Toward a Social History and a Data Archive. Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History: Vol. 22, No. 2, pp. 68-73
A Piece of the Educational Pie
This paper uses individual-level data to present new evidence on the impact of discrimination, class, family structure, and culture on black schooling. That evidence is used to reconsider several of the important conclusions of Lieberson's (1980) analysis of schooling. The paper confirms Lieberson's conclusions about the relative importance of economic well-being and the unimportance of family structure. When family background is controlled, Lieb…
Using Census Districts in Analysis, Record Linkage, and Sampling
Using Census Districts in Analysis, Record Linkage, and Sampling The United States Census Bureau, in order to facilitate the process of enumeration, has divided larger political units (states, counties, or cities) into more manageable ones. In the censuses between 1850 and 1870 these units of enumeration were known as subdivisions; later they were referred to as enumeration districts. The manuscript schedules between i850 and 1900 indicate the en…
Working-Class Homeownership and Children's Schooling in Providence, Rhode Island 1880-1925
When Stephan Thernstrom studied the children of laborers who lived in mid-nineteenth century Newburyport, Massachusetts, he made striking discovery. The sons of those who had managed to purchase a home were less likely to be upwardly mobile. This finding, which at first sight seems so counterintuitive, Thernstrom explained in a manner that bears directly on the determinants of schooling in the nineteenth century
Who Stayed in School? Social Structure and Academic Achievement in the Determination of Enrollment Patterns, Providence, Rhode Island, 1880-1925
Journal Article Who Stayed in School? Social Structure and Academic Achievement in the Determination of Enrollment Patterns, Providence, Rhode Island, 1880–1925 Get access Joel Perlmann Joel Perlmann assistant professor Graduate School of Education, Harvard University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 72, Issue 3, December 1985, Pages 588–614, https://doi.org/10.2307/19043…
A Piece of the Educational Pie
This paper uses individual-level data to present new evidence on the impact of discrimination, class, family structure, and culture on black schooling. That evidence is used to reconsider several of the important conclusions of Lieberson's (1980) analysis of schooling. The paper confirms Lieberson's conclusions about the relative importance of economic well-being and the unimportance of family structure. When family background is controlled, Lieb…
Ethnic Differences
Ethnic Differences, first published in 1989, explores how and why the Irish, Italians, Jews, and blacks of Providence, Rhode Island differed in their schooling and economic success. Drawing on evidence from thousands of students records of public, Catholic, and private schools, as well as on census manuscripts, city directories, and other sources, the book offers an integrated study of American ethnicity, education, and social structure. Joel Per…
School Reform and Social Conflict
Who Were America's Teachers
(1989). Who Were America's Teachers?: Toward a Social History and a Data Archive. Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History: Vol. 22, No. 2, pp. 68-73
Ethnic Differences in the Classroom
Ethnic Differences
Toward the Melting Pot
Ethnic Differences
Journal Article Ethnic Differences: Schooling and Social Structure among the Irish, Italians, Jews, and Blacks in an American City, 1880–1935. By Joel Perlmann. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988. x + 327 pp. $42.50.) Get access V. P. Franklin V. P. Franklin Arizona State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 4, March 1990, Pages 1284–1285, https:…
Historical Legacies
This article first describes the historical record on the use of immigrant languages in American schools, concentrating on the important nineteenth-century experience with German but touching also on other groups, the 1880-1920 period, and parochial schools. The article then turns to the issue of school achievement by immigrants circa 1910, when public school policy did not provide for the use of immigrant languages to support that achievement
Ethnic Differences
Ethnic Differences
When Did New England Women Acquire Literacy
URING the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries the proportion of New England women with some education increased substantially. Historians have studied this phenomenon at two levels. One level concerns advanced education-the development of female academies and colleges with serious academic curricula. The other concerns the acquisition of basic literacy. Recently, much more attention has been accorded to the first topic, perhaps because…
The White Ethnic Experience in America
Second Generation Decline? Children of Immigrants, Past and Present-A Reconsideration
Joel Perlmann, Roger Waldinger, Second Generation Decline? Children of Immigrants, Past and Present-A Reconsideration, The International Migration Review, Vol. 31, No. 4, Special Issue: Immigrant Adaptation and Native-Born Responses in the Making of Americans (Winter, 1997), pp. 893-922
Literacy, Schooling, and Teaching among New England Women, 1730-1820
Joel Perlmann, Silvana R. Siddali, Keith Whitescarver, Literacy, Schooling, and Teaching among New England Women, 1730-1820, History of Education Quarterly, Vol. 37, No. 2, Special Issue on Education in Early America (Summer, 1997), pp. 117-139
Second Generation Decline? Children of Immigrants, past and Present -A Reconsideration
Is the contemporary second generation on the road to the upward mobility and assimilation that in retrospect characterized the second generation of earlier immigrations? Or are the American economic context and the racial origins of today's immigration likely to result in a much less favorable future for the contemporary second generation? While several recent papers have argued for the latter position, we suspect they are too pessimistic. We bri…
Multiracials, Intermarriage, Ethnicity
Second generations
This paper takes a doubting, though friendly, look at the hypotheses of “second generation deciine ” and “segmented assimiiation ” that have framed the emerging research agenda on the new second generation. We begin with a review of the basic approach, outlining the logic of argument, and specifying the central contentions.We then head toward the past, in search of material that will illuminate both the parallels and points of distinction between…
Immigrants, Schooling and Social Mobility
Immigrants, Schooling and Social Mobility confronts a central issue in the study of immigration and ethnicity - the opposition between culture and structure - and presents a collection of essays that
Women's Work
Journal Article Women's Work?: American Schoolteachers, 1650– 1920 Get access Women's Work?: American Schoolteachers, 1650– 1920. By Perlmann Joel and Margo Robert A.. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. x, 188 pp. $32.00, isbn0-226-66039-7.) Kathleen C. Berkeley Kathleen C. Berkeley University of North CarolinaWilmington, North Carolina Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History,…
Women's Work? American Schoolteachers, 1650-1920
This text blends quantitative evidence with historical narrative to show that distinctive regional school structures and related cultural patterns account for the initial regional difference in proportions of female teachers in schools in America
Migrations, integration, discriminations
Sociology (23 works) · Political science (15 works) · History (12 works) · Immigration (12 works) · Demography (11 works) · Anthropology (10 works) · Ethnic group (10 works) · Geography (10 works) · Law (10 works) · Race, History, and American Society (9 works)