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100 1 $aSchultz, April R.,$d1962-
245 10 $aEthnicity on parade :$binventing the
Norwegian-American through celebration /$cApril R. Schultz.
260 $aAmherst :$bUniversity of Massachusetts
Press,$cc1994.
263 $a9501
300 $axiii, 156 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aPrologue: The "Pageant of the Northmen" -- 1.
Ethnic Identity and Celebration: An Introduction -- 2. "To
Lose the Unspeakable": Negotiating Norwegian-American
Identity -- 3. "The Day of the Great Beast": World War I,
Americanization, and a Community in Crisis -- 4. "The Pride
of the Race Had Been Touched": Constructing a Festival
Identity -- 5. "The Nation's Only Safe Foundation": Fields
of Meaning in an Ethnic Celebration -- Conclusion:
Historical Memory and Ethnicity.
520 $aWhy do people at certain historical moments
choose to define themselves in terms of their ethnicity?
What concrete concerns are embedded in such identification?
What does the creation of this identity mean in the larger
context of history and social relationships?
520 8 $aThese are some of the questions April R. Schultz
addresses in this interdisciplinary study of the way in
which ethnic identity has been shaped and expressed in
American culture. Drawing on the work of historians,
anthropologists, literary critics, and cultural theorists,
Schultz analyzes one national celebration - the 1925
Norwegian-American Immigration Centennial - as a strategic
site for the invention of ethnicity.
520 8 $aShe shows how Norwegian Americans used this
ceremony to create a distinctive vision of their past and
present - a social and cultural construction that both
accommodated and resisted dominant Anglo-American
conceptions of assimilation. By taking a close look at the
experiences of a white, middle-class, Protestant ethnic
community, this book challenges many assumptions about the
"Americanization" of immigrant groups and offers new insight
into the uses of historical memory.
650 0 $aNorwegian Americans$xEthnic identity.
650 0 $aNorwegian Americans$xAnniversaries, etc.
650 0 $aNorwegian Americans$xSocial life and customs.
650 0 $aEthnicity$zUnited States$vCase studies.
650 0 $aAmericanization$vCase studies.
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