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Author:

Kazal, Russell A. (Russell Andrew)

Title:

Becoming old stock : the paradox of German-American identity / Russell A. Kazal.

Publisher:

Princeton University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2004

Description:

xvii, 383 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

German Americans--Philadelphia--Philadelphia--Ethnic identity.
German Americans--Cultural assimilation--Philadelphia.--Philadelphia.
Whites--Race identity--Philadelphia.--Philadelphia.
German Americans--Philadelphia--Philadelphia--Social conditions--20th century.
Immigrants--Philadelphia--Philadelphia--Social conditions--20th century.
Social classes--Philadelphia--Philadelphia--History--20th century.
Philadelphia (Pa.)--Race relations.
Philadelphia (Pa.)--Social conditions--20th century.
Ethnicity--United States--Case studies.
Cultural pluralism--United States--Case studies.
Duitsers.
Etnisch bewustzijn.
Assimilatie (sociologie)
Américains d'origine allemande--Philadelphie--Philadelphie--Identité ethnique.
Américains d'origine allemande--Acculturation--Philadelphie.--Philadelphie.
Blancs--Identité ethnique--Philadelphie.--Philadelphie.
Américains d'origine allemande--Philadelphie--Philadelphie--Conditions sociales--20e siècle.
Immigrants--Philadelphie--Philadelphie--Conditions sociales--20e siècle.
Classes sociales--Philadelphie--Philadelphie--Histoire--20e siècle.
Ethnicité--États-Unis--Cas, Études de.
Pluralisme--États-Unis--Cas, Études de.
Philadelphie (Penns.)--Relations raciales.
Philadelphie (Penns.)--Conditions sociales--20e siècle.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]-370) and index.

Contents:

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.

ISBN:

9780691050157 (acid-free paper)
0691050155 (acid-free paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)52509620

LCCN:

2003056331

Locations:

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

SOAX911 -- Simpson College - Dunn Library (Indianola)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)