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The Newark Experience

Putting it in Context: The Ethnic Experience in New Jersey

Immigration and Ethnicity in New Jersey History
Douglas V. Shaw. Trenton, N.J., New Jersey Historical Commission, Dept. of State, c1994. Available?
The People of New Jersey
Rudoph J. Vecoli. Princeton, N.J., Van Nostrand, 1965. Seminal general study of the ethnic groups that migrated to New Jersey from colonial times to the 1960s. Available?
The New Jersey Ethnic Experience
Edited by Barbara Cunningham. Union City, N.J. : W. H. Wise, 1977.
Essays on 31 ethnic groups in New Jersey. Available?
A New Wave of Immigration in New Jersey: diversity and vitality 1940-2009 
Henry Bischoff and Carol Kitman. S.l. : printed by Lulu, c2010. Available?
Germans in New Jersey: A History
Peter T. Lubrecht. Charleston, The History Press, 2013. Available?
The Irish-American Experience in New Jersey and Metropolitan New York: Cultural Identity, Hybridity, and Commemoration
Marta Mestrovic Deyrup and Maura Grace Harrington. Rowman & Littlefield, 2014. Rutgers-restricted Access
Hidden History of the Irish in New Jersey
Thomas Fox. Charleston, S.C., History Press, 2011. Available?
Community, Culture and the Makings of Identity: Portuguese-Americans Along the Eastern Seaboard
Kimberly DaCosta Holton ad Andrea Klimt. North Dartmouth, Mass., University of Massachusets Dartmouth, Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture. Available?
Caribbean Peoples in New Jersey: An Overview
Henry Bischoff. New Jersey History 113(1-2), February 1995, pp. 1-30. Available?
Black, Foreign-Born and Elected: West Indians in New Jersey's Political Offices
Hyacinth Miller. National Political Science Review 19(1), 2018, pp. 79-96. Rutgers-restricted Access
"Class, Culture, and Ethnicity in Nineteenth-Century Newark,"
Charles Stephenson. IN New Jersey's Ethnic Heritage: Papers Presented at the Eight Annual New Jersey History Symposium, December 4, 1976. Edited by Paul A. Stellhorn. Trenton, New Jersey Historical Commission, 1978, pp.94-132. Available?