AMERICAN IMMIGRANTS

Politics & Social Sciences

Kivisto, Peter

Blanck, Dag

Social Sciences

University of Illinois Press

In the first major examination of the richness and variety of Swedish life in Chicago, scholars from both the united States and Sweden look at Swedish theater, literary life, educational undertakings, labor, radicalism, and religion. Chapters about the importance of Chicago as a theme in Swedish literature, and on Swedish travelers' accounts of the city, delve further into the interplay between Sweden and Chicago.

Swedish American Life in Chicago: Cultural and Urban Aspects of an Immigrant People, 1850-1930

History

Anderson, Philip J

Americas

Analyzing the development of a Swedish American identity The Creation of an Ethnic Identity: Being Swedish American in the Augustana Synod, 1860–1917 analyzes how Swedish American identity was constructed, maintained, and changed in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The Augustana Synod, the largest religious-based organization created by Swedish immigrants in the United States, played an important role in establishing what it meant to be Swedish American. In this study, author Dag Blanck poses three fundamental questions: How did an ethnic identity develop in the Augustana Synod? What was that identity? Why was an ethnic identity formed? Based on primary sources formerly unknown or neglected, The Creation of an Ethnic Identity examines the Lutheran Augustana Synod, Augustana College, and the Augustana Book Concern to provide insights into how ethnic identity is constructed within a major religious body, a central educational institution, and a major publishing house.Starting from the concept of ethnicity as something created or invented, Blanck goes on to explore how it was possible for a white European immigrant group like the Swedes to use its ethnicity as a tool of integration into American society. The nature of their ethnicity, says Blanck, was both determined by their cultural origins and also the values and nature of American society as they perceived it. Becoming Swedish American was also a way of becoming American. The volume, which is augmented by illustrations, integrates the most critical scholarship on immigration and ethnicity over the past half century and provides a strong argument about how ethnicity is shaped over time within an immigrant group.

The Creation of an Ethnic Identity: Being Swedish American in the Augustana Synod, 1860-1917

Southern Illinois University Press

<p>"This study explores the construction of a Swedish-American identity within the Augustana Synod, the leading Swedish-American organization. The nature and contents of this identity are traced at Augustana College, which was the leading Swedish-American institution of higher learning; at the Augustana Book Concern, the largest Swedish-American publishing house; and through the fashioning of a Swedish-American history."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved</p>

Becoming Swedish-American: The construction of an ethnic identity in the Augustana Synod, 1860-1917 (Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis)

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