Immigrant America (eBook, PDF)

European Ethnicity in the U.S.
Redaktion: Walch, Timothy

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136515255
• Artikelnr.: 45131790

Autorenporträt

Timothy Walch

Inhaltsangabe

A Clash of Cultures * Beyond 'America for Americanism:' Inside the Movement Culture of Antebellum Nativism
Dale T. Knobel * Becoming American: Assimilation
Pluralism
and Ethnic Identity
David L. Salvaterra * Us and Them: Reflections on Ethnic Literature
Betty Ann Burch * Haven in a Strange New Land * Home is Where the Heart Is: Immigrant Mobility and Home Ownership
Gordon W. Kirk
Jr. and Carolyn Tyirin Kirk * Parents and Children: Fundamental Questions About Immigrant Family Life
Mary Elizabeth Brown * Mothers and Daughters: Nassau County Italian American Women
Mary Jane Capozzoli Ingui * Agents of Acculturation * The Religious Factor in Immigration: The Dutch Experience
Robert P. Swierenga * The Ethnic Dimension of American Catholic Parochial Education
Timothy Walch * The World of Work: The Croatians of Whiting
Indiana
Edward A. Zivich * The Contours of Ethnic Community * The Changing Face of Ethnic Politics: From Political Machine to Community Organization
Edward R. Kantowicz * The Ethnic Frontier: Rural Germans and the Settlement of America
LaVern J. Rippley * Ethnic Elites and Their Organizations: The St. Louis Experience
1900-1925
Margaret Lo Piccolo Sullivan * Guide to Further Readings * Index