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FormatJournal Article
Author, AnalyticKamphoefner, Walter D.
Title, AnalyticReview of Becoming Old Stock: The Paradox of German-American Identity (Russell A. Kazal, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004. xvii, 382 pp., ill.)
Journal TitleH-NET Book Review
Date of PublicationMar. 2005
Location in Work[2 pp.]
AbstractThis study examines both the social and economic structure of the German community of Philadelphia, and its culture and self-identification--as well as the ways these interacted with one another and changed over time. . . . [Kazal] takes on a somewhat later time segment than most census-based studies, beginning only with the waning of mass immigration at the turn of the twentieth century, and spanning the crucial era of World War I and its aftermath, down into the 1930s. . . . This study focuses particularly on four ethnic subcultures (middle class Vereinsdeutsche, working class socialists, Lutherans, and Catholics), each of which followed a somewhat distinctive path into a different part of the American mainstream.
NotesPublished by H-GAGCS@h-net.msu.edu
Call NumberMKI P2005-11
MKI TermsBook reviews/ German Americans -- Pennsylvania/ Philadelphia (Pa.)/ Ethnic identity/ Assimilation/ Ethnic groups -- German-speaking