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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kazal, Russell A. (Russell Andrew)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

German Americans--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--Ethnic identity.

German Americans.

German Americans--Cultural assimilation--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.

White people--Race identity--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.

White people.

German Americans--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--Social conditions--20th century.

Immigrants--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--Social conditions--20th century.

Immigrants.

Social classes--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--History--20th century.

Social classes.

Ethnicity--United States--Case studies.

Ethnicity.

Cultural pluralism--United States--Case studies.

Cultural pluralism.

Philadelphia (Pa.)--Race relations.

Philadelphia (Pa.).

Philadelphia (Pa.)--Social conditions--20th century.

Physical Description:

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

Place of Publication:

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2004.

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 Germaness

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.

Notes:

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

Local Notes:

The Balch Ethnic Studies Collection.

ISBN:

0691050155 (acid-free paper)

OCLC:

52509620