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| Format | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Author, Analytic | Conzen, Kathleen N. |
| Title, Analytic | The Paradox of German American Assimilation |
| Journal Title | Yearbook of German-American Studies |
| Date of Publication | 1981 |
| Volume ID | 16 |
| Location in Work | 153-160 |
| Abstract | The experience of German immigrants in America has been a paradoxical one. Despite contemporary census reports and public opinion surveys which record the survival of some distinctive ethnic traits among persons of German ancestry, despite scattered rural areas and urban pockets where traces of German roots remain evident, most Americans would agree with Andrew Greeley that "if ever an American ethnic group vanished, it is the Germans." Yet German-Americans once possessed one of the most visible, complex, and vital of American ethnic cultures, and nourished a strong ethos of separatism. How did so highly structured and sophisticated an ethnic culture disappear so completely? This article will briefly consider the historiography of this issue and its implications for current conceptual models of immigrant assimilation. |
| Call Number | MKI / SHS E 184 .G3 G315 |
| MKI Terms | German Americans/ Ethnic identity/ Assimilation |