Urban Villages and Local Identities : Germans from Russia, Omaha Indians, and Vietnamese in Lincoln, Nebraska /

"Urban Villages and Local Identities examines immigration to the Great Plains by surveying the experiences of three divergent ethnic groups--Volga Germans, Omaha Indians, and Vietnamese--that settled in enclaves in Lincoln, Nebraska, beginning in 1876, 1941, and 1975, respectively. These urban...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Kinbacher, Kurt E.
Otros Autores: Peck, Gunther, Mahoney, Timothy R., 1953- (writer of foreword.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lubbock, Texas : Texas Tech University Press, 2015.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Vietnamese > Social conditions.
Russian Germans > Social conditions.
Immigrants > Social conditions.
Ethnicity.
Ethnic relations.
Ethnic neighborhoods.
Emigration and immigration > Social aspects.
Community life.
City and town life.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > Urban.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
Vie urbaine > Nebraska > Lincoln.
Communaute > Nebraska > Lincoln.
Quartiers ethniques > Nebraska > Lincoln.
Ethnicite > Nebraska > Lincoln.
Vietnamiens > Nebraska > Lincoln > Conditions sociales.
Omaha (Indiens) > Nebraska > Lincoln > Conditions sociales.
City and town life > Nebraska > Lincoln.
Community life > Nebraska > Lincoln.
Ethnic neighborhoods > Nebraska > Lincoln.
Ethnicity > Nebraska > Lincoln.
Immigrants > Nebraska > Lincoln > Social conditions.
Vietnamese > Nebraska > Lincoln > Social conditions.
Omaha Indians > Nebraska > Lincoln > Social conditions.
Russian Germans > Nebraska > Lincoln > Social conditions.
Nebraska > Lincoln.
Lincoln (Neb.) > Emigration and immigration > Social aspects.
Lincoln (Neb.) > Ethnic relations.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Ethnicity and Identity in Lincoln; Performed Culture; Ethnic Saliency; Urban Villages; Frameworks of this Study
  • 1. Local Knowledge and National Perspectives : Ethnicities and the Mainstream in Lincoln
  • Omaha Confinement and Disfranchisement
  • Volga German Immigration
  • Omahas Return to the Salt Basin
  • Vietnamese Immigration
  • Multiculturalism in the Modern Mainstream
  • 2. Life in the Russian Bottoms : Community Building and Identity Transformation among Germans from Russia
  • The Founding Generation
  • "We Became Americanized" : The Second Fifty Years
  • Survivals, Revivals, and a New German from Russia Identity
  • Conclusion
  • 3. From the Big Village to the Urban Village : Omahas in Lincoln
  • Community
  • Particularism : The Omaha Way
  • Cosmopolitanism
  • Transnationalism
  • Conclusion
  • 4. Vietnamese Urban Villagers in Lincoln : Clustered Communities and Flexible Identities
  • Immigrant Communities
  • Particularism
  • Cosmopolitanism
  • Transnationalism
  • Conclusion
  • 5. Comparisons : Identities and Communities during the Long Twentieth Century
  • Pluralistic Communities
  • Ethnicity and Race
  • Transnationalism, Internationalism, and Nationalism
  • Performed Culture
  • Conclusion.

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