Dutch American Identity Politics
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Dutch American Identity Politics
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Author : Hans Krabbendam
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
Dutch American Identity Politics written by Hans Krabbendam and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Dutch Americans categories.
The Dutch American Identity
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Author : Terence Schoone-Jongen
language : en
Publisher: Cambria Press
Release Date : 2008
The Dutch American Identity written by Terence Schoone-Jongen and has been published by Cambria Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Each year, thousands of communities across the United States celebrate their ethnic heritages, values, and identities through the medium of festivals. Drawing together elements of ethnic pride, nostalgia, religious values, economic motives, cultural memory, and a spirit of celebration, these festivals are performances that promote and preserve a community's unique identity and heritage, while at the same time attempting to place the ethnic community within the larger American experience. Although these aims are pervasive across ethnic heritage celebrations, two festivals that appear similar may nevertheless serve radically different social and political aims. Accordingly, The Dutch American Identity examines five Dutch American festivals-three of which are among the oldest ethnic heritage festivals in the United States-in order to determine what such festivals mean and do for the staging communities. Although Dutch Americans were historically among the first ethnic groups to stage ethnic heritage festivals designed to attract outside audiences, and despite the fact that several Dutch American festivals have met with sustained success, little scholarship has focused on this ethnic group's festivals. Moreover, studies that have considered festivals staged by communities of European descent have typically focused on a single festival. The Dutch American Identity thus, on the one hand, seeks to call attention to the historical development and current sociocultural significance of Dutch American heritage festivals. On the other hand, this study aims to elucidate the ties that bind the five communities that stage these festivals together rather than studying one festival in isolation from the others. Creatively combining several methodologies, The Dutch American Identity describes and analyzes how the social, political, and ethical values of the five communities are expressed (performed, acted out, represented, costumed, and displayed) in their respective festivals. Rather than relying on familiar, even stereotypical, notions of "the Midwest," "rural America," "conservative America," etc., that often appear in contemporary political discourse, Schoone-Jongen shows just how complex and contradictory these festivals are in the ways they represent each community. At the same time, by placing these festivals within the context of American history, Schoone-Jongen also demonstrates how and why each festival is a microcosm of particular cultural, social, and political developments in modern America. The Dutch American Identity is an important book for sociology, performance studies, folklore, immigration history, anthropology, and cultural history collections.
Networks Regions And Nations Shaping Identities In The Low Countries 1300 1650
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language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2009-11-23
Networks Regions And Nations Shaping Identities In The Low Countries 1300 1650 written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-11-23 with History categories.
This volume offers a fascinating insight into the continuities and discontinuities in the formation of identities in the Low Countries and its neighbouring countries. It is an important contribution to the ongoing debates about national and other identities.
How Dutch Americans Stayed Dutch
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Author : Michael J. Douma
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
How Dutch Americans Stayed Dutch written by Michael J. Douma and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Calvinists categories.
The Dutch-American ethnic group demonstrates the persistence of Dutchness, which, however, has come to mean many different things in an American context. This study demonstrates that Dutch identities, focusing on the nineteenth and twentieth-century immigrants, have survived precisely because of this flexibility: the evolution of tradition, not its rigid preservation, is the unifying principle of social cohesion. As Douma contends, to understand ethnic groups we need to see them as historically developing, changeable categories.
Innocence Abroad
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Author : Benjamin Schmidt
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2001-11-12
Innocence Abroad written by Benjamin Schmidt and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-11-12 with Art categories.
Innocence Abroad explores the encounter between the Netherlands and the New World in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Four Centuries Of Dutch American Relations
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Author : Hans Krabbendam
language : en
Publisher: SUNY Press
Release Date : 2009-09-09
Four Centuries Of Dutch American Relations written by Hans Krabbendam and has been published by SUNY Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-09-09 with History categories.
A comprehensive history of bilateral relations between the Netherlands and the United States.
The Dutch Republic And American Independence
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Author : J. W. Schulte Nordholt
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1982
The Dutch Republic And American Independence written by J. W. Schulte Nordholt and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982 with United States categories.
White Identity Politics
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Author : Ashley Jardina
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2019-02-28
White Identity Politics written by Ashley Jardina and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-02-28 with History categories.
Amidst discontent over diversity, racial identity is a lens through which many US white Americans now view the political world.
The Case For Nationalism
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Author : Rich Lowry
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins
Release Date : 2019-11-05
The Case For Nationalism written by Rich Lowry and has been published by HarperCollins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-05 with History categories.
“Rich Lowry not only makes an original and compelling case for nationalism but also carefully demonstrates how throughout Western history and literature, enlightened nationhood was the glue that held diverse democratic societies together in peace and kept them safe in war. A fascinating, erudite—and much-needed—defense of a hallowed idea unfairly under current attack.” — Victor Davis Hanson “America is an idea, but it’s not only an idea: America is also a nation with flesh-and-blood people, particular lands with real borders, and its own history and culture. Rich Lowry’s learned and brisk The Case for Nationalism defends these unfashionable truths against transnational assault from both the left and the right while reminding us that nationalist sentiments are essential to self-government.” — Tom Cotton “Rich Lowry’s The Case for Nationalism is a massively important exploration of what nationalism really means, how it has been radically misinterpreted, and why American nationalism, properly construed, is essential to the project of restoring unity and purpose in our country.” — Ben Shapiro “Anyone who loves freedom knows that nothing today is more tragically misunderstood than the vital subject of this important book. I thank God that someone of the caliber of my friend Rich Lowry has taken it on as he so brilliantly has!” — Eric Metaxas
American Jewish Identity Politics
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Author : Deborah Dash Moore
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 2009-12-18
American Jewish Identity Politics written by Deborah Dash Moore and has been published by University of Michigan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-12-18 with History categories.
"Displays the full range of informed, thoughtful opinion on the place of Jews in the American politics of identity." ---David A. Hollinger, Preston Hotchkis Professor of American History, University of California, Berkeley "A fascinating anthology whose essays crystallize the most salient features of American Jewish life in the second half of the twentieth century." ---Beth S. Wenger, Katz Family Associate Professor of American Jewish History and Director of the Jewish Studies Program, University of Pennsylvania "A wonderful collection of important essays, indispensable for understanding the searing conflicts over faith, familial, and political commitments marking American Jewry's journey through the paradoxes of the post-Holocaust era." ---Michael E. Staub, Professor of English, Baruch College, CUNY, and author of Torn at the Roots: The Crisis of Jewish Liberalism in Postwar America "This provocative anthology offers fascinating essays on Jewish culture, politics, religion, feminism, and much more. It is a must-read for all those interested in the intersection of Jewish life and identity politics in the modern period." ---Joyce Antler, Samuel Lane Professor of American Jewish History and Culture, Brandeis University "This collection of essays invites the reader to engage with some of the best writing and thinking about American Jewish life by some of the finest scholars in the field. Deborah Moore's introduction offers an important framework to understand not only the essays, but the academic and political contexts in which they are rooted." ---Riv-Ellen Prell, Professor and Chair, American Studies, University of Minnesota, and editor of Women Remaking American Judaism This collection of essays explores changes among American Jews in their self-understanding during the last half of the 20th century. Written by scholars who grew up after World War II and the Holocaust who participated in political struggles in the 1960s and 1970s and who articulated many of the formative concepts of modern Jewish studies, this anthology provides a window into an era of social change. These men and women are among the leading scholars of Jewish history, society and culture. The volume is organized around contested themes in American Jewish life: the Holocaust and World War II, religious pluralism and authenticity, intermarriage and Jewish continuity. Thus, it offers one of the few opportunities for students to learn about these debates from participant scholars. The book includes a dozen photographs of contemporary Jewish experience in the United States by acclaimed Jewish photographer Bill Aron. Like the scholars of the essays, Aron participated in struggles within the Jewish community and the Jewish counterculture in the 1970s and 1980s. His images reflect shifting perspectives toward spirituality, community, feminism, and memory culture. The essays reflect several layers of identity politics. On one level, they interrogate the recent past of American Jews, starting with their experiences of World War II. Without the flourishing of identity politics and the white ethnic revival, many questions about American Jewish history might never have been explored. Those who adopted identity politics often saw Jews as an ethnic group in the United States, one connected both to other Americans and to Jews throughout the world and in the past. On another level, these essays express ideas nourished in universities during the turbulent 1970s and 1980s. Those years marked the expansion of Jewish studies as a field in the United States and the establishment of American Jewish studies as an area of specialization. Taken together they reveal the varied sources of American Jewish studies. Finally, one must note that in many cases these essays anticipate major books on the subject. Reading them now reveals how ideas took shape within the political pressures of the moment. These articles teach us not only about their subject but also about how issues were framed and debated during what might be called our fin de siecle, the end of the twentieth century and beginning of the twenty-first. The authors of these articles include several, most notably Arthur Green, Alvin Rosenfield, and the late Egon Mayer, who collectively could be thought of as the founding fathers of this new generation of Jewish scholars. Green in theology, Rosenfield in literature, and Mayer in sociology influenced younger academics such as Arnold Eisen. A slightly different relationship exists among the historians. Several come to their subject though the study of American history, including Hasia Diner, Stephen Whitfield, and Jonathan Sarna, while others approach through the portal of Jewish history, such as Paula Hyman and Jeffrey Gurock.