ISBN:
9780815316657
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (271 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Immigrant America : European Ethnicity in the U.S
DDC:
305.834073
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
This new volume of original essays focuses on the presence of European ethnic culture in American society since 1830. Among the topics explored in Immigrant America are the alienation and assimilation of immigrants; the immigrant home and family as a haven of ethnicity; religion, education and employment as agents of acculturation; and the contours of ethnic community in American society
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Immigrant America; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction; PART I A CLASH OF CULTURES; Introduction; Beyond America for Americans: Inside the Movement Culture of Antebellum Nativism; Becoming American: Assimilation, Pluralism, and Ethnic Identity; Us and Them: Personal Reflections on Ethnic Literature; PART II HAVEN IN A STRANGE NEW LAND; Introduction; Home Is Where the Heart Is: Immigrant Mobility and Home Ownership; Parents and Children: Fundamental Questions about Immigrant Family Life; Mothers and Daughters: Nassau County Italian American Women
Description / Table of Contents:
PART III AGENTS OF ACCULTURATIONIntroduction; The Religious Factor in Immigration: The Dutch Experience; The Ethnic Dimension in American Catholic Parochial Education; The World of Work: The Croatians of Whiting, Indiana; PART IV THE CONTOURS OF ETHNIC COMMUNITY; Introduction; The Changing Face of Ethnic Politics: From Political Machine to Community Organization; The Ethnic Frontier: Rural Germans and the Settlement of America; Ethnic Elites and Their Organizations: The St. Louis Experience, 1900-1925; Guide to Further Reading; Contributors; Index;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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