TY - BOOK AU - Kazal,Russell A. TI - Becoming Old Stock: The Paradox of German-American Identity SN - 9780691223674 AV - F158.9.G3 U1 - 305.83/1074811 22 PY - 2022///] CY - Princeton, NJ : PB - Princeton University Press, KW - Cultural pluralism KW - United States KW - Case studies KW - Ethnicity KW - German Americans KW - Cultural assimilation KW - Pennsylvania KW - Philadelphia KW - Ethnic identity KW - Social conditions KW - 20th century KW - Immigrants KW - Social classes KW - History KW - White people KW - Race identity KW - Whites KW - HISTORY / United States / General KW - bisacsh KW - Alfredo, Waldemar KW - American Legion KW - Arbeiter Sängerbund KW - Assing, Ottilie KW - Barrett, James KW - Bethel Lutheran Church KW - Burstein, Alan KW - Catholic Church KW - Catholic Standard and Times KW - Chinese immigrants KW - Dillingham Commission KW - Douglass, Frederick KW - Fischler Sangerbund KW - Franklin, Benjamin KW - Gartner, Fred KW - German American Bund KW - German American League for Culture KW - German Hospital KW - Great Migration KW - Hausvater KW - Hexamer, Ernst KW - Hughes, Charles Evans KW - Inner Mission Society KW - Jenkins, Philip KW - Karpathen Saengerbund KW - Kreimer, Hermann KW - Kulturkampf KW - Kunze, Gerhard KW - Liberty Bond campaigns KW - Lithuanians KW - Midwest KW - Mozart Harmonie KW - New England KW - Order Independent Americans KW - Ostendorf, Berndt KW - Pennsylvania Germans KW - Plattdeutscher Verein KW - Roediger, David KW - advertisements KW - amusement parks KW - blackface minstrelsy KW - brewing industry KW - civil rights movement KW - cultural pluralism KW - department stores KW - ethnic mixing KW - mid-Atlantic region KW - multiculturalism KW - multiple identities KW - occupations KW - pluralism KW - racial segregation N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustrations --; Tables --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; PART ONE 1900 --; CHAPTER ONE German Philadelphia: A Social Portrait --; CHAPTER TWO Two Neighborhoods --; PART TWO Confronting Assimilation, 1900–1914 --; CHAPTER THREE The Gendered Crisis of the Vereinswesen --; CHAPTER FOUR Destinations: The Ambiguous Lure of Mass Commercial and Consumer Culture --; CHAPTER FIVE Destinations: Fractured Whiteness, “American” Identity, and the “Old Stock” Opening --; CHAPTER SIX Resisting Assimilation: Middle-Class and Working-Class Approaches --; PART THREE Storm, 1914–1919 --; CHAPTER SEVEN European War and Ethnic Mobilization --; CHAPTER EIGHT Intervention, the Anti-German Panic, and the Fall of Public Germanness --; PART FOUR Reshaping Identities in the 1920s --; CHAPTER NINE An Ethnicity Subdued --; CHAPTER TEN Changing Neighborhoods --; CHAPTER ELEVEN Middle-Class Germans: American Identity and the “Stock” of “Our Forefathers” --; CHAPTER TWELVE Workers and Catholics: Toward the “White Ethnic” --; CONCLUSION Pluralism, Nationalism, Race, and the Fate of German America --; APPENDIX The Neighborhood Census Samples --; Notes --; Index; restricted access N2 - More Americans trace their ancestry to Germany than to any other country. Arguably, German Americans form America's largest ethnic group. Yet they have a remarkably low profile today, reflecting a dramatic, twentieth-century retreat from German-American identity. In this age of multiculturalism, why have German Americans gone into ethnic eclipse--and where have they ended up? Becoming Old Stock represents the first in-depth exploration of that question. The book describes how German Philadelphians reinvented themselves in the early twentieth century, especially after World War I brought a nationwide anti-German backlash. 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. Becoming Old Stock sheds light on the way German Americans used race, American nationalism, and mass culture to fashion new identities in place of ethnic ones. It is also an important contribution to the growing literature on racial identity among European Americans. In tracing the fate of one of America's largest ethnic groups, Becoming Old Stock challenges historians to rethink the phenomenon of ethnic assimilation and to explore its complex relationship to American pluralism UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691223674?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691223674 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780691223674/original ER -