ISBN:
9780691223674
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069122367X
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 383 pages)
,
illustrations
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Kazal, Russell A. (Russell Andrew) Becoming old stock
Keywords:
Philadelphia
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1900-1999
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Whites Race identity
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German Americans Ethnic identity
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German Americans Cultural assimilation
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German Americans Social conditions 20th century
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Immigrants Social conditions 20th century
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Social classes History 20th century
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Ethnicity Case studies
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Cultural pluralism Case studies
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White people Race identity
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Whites ; Race identity
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Ethnische Identität
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Pennsylvaniadeutsche
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Soziale Situation
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Cultural pluralism
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Ethnicity
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German Americans ; Cultural assimilation
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German Americans ; Ethnic identity
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German Americans ; Social conditions
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Immigrants ; Social conditions
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Race relations
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Social classes
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Social conditions
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Duitsers
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Etnisch bewustzijn
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Assimilatie (sociologie)
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Américains d'origine allemande ; États-Unis ; Pennsylvanie (États-Unis) ; Identité collective
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Américains d'origine allemande ; États-Unis ; Pennsylvanie (États-Unis) ; Conditions sociales ; 20e siècle
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Tyskar ; historia ; Förenta staterna ; Philadelphia ; 1900-talet
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HISTORY / United States / General
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Case studies
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History
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Classes sociales - Pennsylvanie - Philadelphie - Histoire - 20e siècle
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Ethnicité - États-Unis - Études de cas
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Diversité culturelle - États-Unis - Études de cas
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White people - Race identity
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Américains d'origine allemande - Identité ethnique - Pennsylvanie - Philadelphie
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Américains d'origine allemande - Acculturation - Pennsylvanie - Philadelphie
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Américains d'origine allemande - Pennsylvanie - Philadelphie - Conditions sociales - 20e siècle
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Philadelphia (Pa.) Race relations
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Philadelphia (Pa.) Social conditions 20th century
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Pennsylvania
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Philadelphia 〈Pa.〉
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USA
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Pennsylvania ; Philadelphia
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United States
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Deutsche
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Electronic books
Abstract:
German Philadelphia : a social portrait -- Two neighborhoods -- The gendered crisis of the Vereinswesen -- Destinations : the ambiguous lure of mass commercial and consumer culture -- Destinations : fractured whiteness, "American" identity, and the "Old stock" opening -- Resisting assimilation : middle-class and working-class approaches -- European war and ethnic mobilization -- Intervention, the anti-German panic, and the fall of public Germanness -- An ethnicity subdued -- Changing neighborhoods-- Middle-class Germans : American identity and the "stock" of "our forefathers" -- Workers and Catholics : toward the "white ethnic" -- Pluralism, nationalism, race, and the fate of German America.
Abstract:
"More Americans trace their ancestry to Germany than to any other country. Arguably, German Americans form America's largest ethnic group. Yet they have a remarkably low profile today, reflecting a dramatic, twentieth-century retreat from German-American identity. In this age of multiculturalism, why have German Americans gone into ethnic eclipse - and where have they ended up? Becoming Old Stock represents the first in-depth exploration of that question. The book describes how German Philadelphians reinvented themselves in the early twentieth century, especially after World War I brought a nationwide anti-German backlash."
Abstract:
"Using quantitative methods, oral history, and a cultural analysis of written sources, the book explores how, by the 1920s, many middle-class and Lutheran residents had redefined themselves in "old-stock" terms - as "American" in opposition to southeastern European "new immigrants." It also examines working-class and Catholic Germans, who came to share a common identity with other European immigrants, but not with newly arrived black Southerners."
Abstract:
"Becoming Old Stock sheds light on the way German Americans used race, American nationalism, and mass culture to fashion new identities in place of ethnic ones. It is also an important contribution to the growing literature on racial identity among European Americans. In tracing the fate of one of America's largest ethnic groups, Becoming Old Stock challenges historians to rethink the phenomenon of ethnic assimilation and to explore its complex relationship to American pluralism."--Jacket
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-370) and index
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