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| Format | Book Chapter |
|---|---|
| Author, Analytic | Rippley, La Vern J. |
| Title, Analytic | Status versus Ethnicity: The Turners and Bohemians of New Ulm |
| Author, Monographic | Brancaforte, Charlotte L. |
| Title, Monographic | The German Forty-Eighters in the United States |
| Place of Publication | New York |
| Publisher | Peter Lang |
| Date of Publication | 1989 |
| Location in Work | 257-278 |
| Series Editor | Hermand, Jost |
| Series Title | German Life and Civilization |
| Series Vol. ID | 1 |
| Abstract | It is the thesis of this paper that the Forty-Eighter element, largely Turners, formed a status elite community in New Ulm. Here I disagree with Iverson, who in Germania, USA hypothesizes that the Germans who founded the community first established themselves as an ordinary ethnic community and then transformed themselves into a status elite as the century work on. The Turners of New Ulm did not have to associate with Catholics, with Lutherans, or with any other religious group in the early years. They did not find themselves in any sense victimized by the Know-Nothing movement. They did not need or choose to associate with other German-speaking immigrants in the community. They were not forced to form an ethnic bulwark against outsiders, for there were no non-German-speaking outsiders to pose a threat. Unlike most towns established on the frontier by New England Yankees, New Ulm from its onset had the opportunity to be virtually all German and elitist. |
| Notes | L:Eng |
| Call Number | MKI E 184 .G3 G354 1989 |
| MKI Terms | German Americans/ History/ 19th century/ Germany/ History/ Revolution, 1848-1849 -- Refugees/ Refugees, political (US)/Forty-eighters/ New Ulm (Minn.)/ German Americans -- Minnesota/ Turners |