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Becoming Old Stock : The Paradox of German-American Identity /
"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...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
2004.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.