Becoming Old Stock: The Paradox of German-American Identity

"Using quantitative methods, oral history, and a cultural analysis of written sources, the book explores how, by the 1920s, many middle-class and Lutheran residents had redefined themselves in "old-stock" terms - as "American" in opposition to southeastern European "new immigrants." It also examines working-class and Catholic Germans, who came to share a common identity with other European immigrants, but not with newly arrived black Southerners."

Author(s): Russell Kazal
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2004-07-26
Pages: 432
Categories: History