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Loyal but French : the negotiation of identity by French-Canadian descendants in the United States / Mark Paul Richard.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Richard, Mark Paul, 1960-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- French-Canadians--Maine--Lewiston--Ethnic identity.
- French-Canadians.
- French-Canadians--Cultural assimilation--Maine--Lewiston.
- Immigrants--Maine--Lewiston--Social conditions.
- Immigrants.
- French-Canadians--Cultural assimilation.
- Ethnicity.
- Social conditions.
- Lewiston (Me.)--Ethnic relations.
- Lewiston (Me.).
- Lewiston (Me.)--Social conditions.
- French-Canadians--United States--Ethnic identity.
- French-Canadians--Cultural assimilation--United States.
- Americanization.
- Immigrants--United States--Social conditions.
- United States.
- United States--Ethnic relations.
- Ethnic relations.
- Maine--Lewiston.
- Physical Description:
- x, 388 pages : map ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, [2008]
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 Creating a Mosaic: Catholic Immigrants in a Protestant Mill Town, 1850-1880 7
- Chapter 2 The Rooster Crows: French Canadians Become Naturalized Citizens and Democratic Voters, 1880-1900 27
- Chapter 3 Not Foreigners but Americans: French Canadians Negotiate Their Identity in the Spindle City, 1880-1900 47
- Chapter 4 Playing Chopin: French Speakers Celebrate the Demise of Lewiston's Republican Majority, 1900-1920 73
- Chapter 5 The Winding Road: From Canadien to Franco-American, 1900-1920 93
- Chapter 6 Competing Americanisms: The Bishops, the Klan, and the Intertwined Identity of Franco-Americans, 1920-1940 125
- Chapter 7 Burying the Elephant: Politics, Gender, and Ethnic Identity in Lewiston, 1920-1940 151
- Chapter 8 Forging Ethnic Unions: Social, Welfare, and Credit Institutions in the Spindle City, 1920-1970 175
- Chapter 9 We Will Earn a Living and Not Merely an Existence: Franco-American Workers Assert Their Rights, 1920-1970 187
- Chapter 10 The Quiet Evolution: Franco-Americans Become Americans, 1940-1970 203
- Chapter 11 Contemporary Identity: Americans of French-Canadian Descent, 1970-2007 229
- Appendix Sources, Methodology, and Additional Statistics 255.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-373) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780870138379
- 0870138375
- OCLC:
- 225088950
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