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Atlanta, GA | Posted: May 15, 2009
Summary Sentence:
Bayor Delivers Paper in Closing Speech
Full Summary:
School of History, Technology, and Society Chair, Ron Bayor, has completed a three-year term as president of the Immigration and Ethnic History Society (IEHS).
School of History, Technology, and Society Chair, Ron Bayor, has completed a three-year term as president of the Immigration and Ethnic History Society (IEHS).
Bayor delivered his closing address at the Society's March meeting in Seattle discussing his paper Another Look at 'Whiteness': The Persistence of Ethnicity in American Life. The paper is a study of ethnic behaviors that have persisted into the fifth generation after immigration. Bayor used psychiatric studies, cultural and medical anthropology, and family therapy to substantiate his points combining traditional historical sources with those from science and medicine.
