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Cargando... Immigrant Minds, American Identities: Making the United States Home, 1870-1930 (Statue of Liberty Ellis Island)por Orm Overland
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Focusing on a period of American history marked by a sharp division between Anglo-Americans (Americans) and non-Anglo European immigrants (foreigners), Orm Overland examines the creation and dissemination of homemaking myths: stories that weave immigrants into the basic fabric of America by linking them to the pivotal events and ideas of their new homeland. Devised by middle-class ethnic leaders and spread through ethnic media, banquets, and rallies, homemaking myths uncovered a role for immigrants in the nation's founding, a place of honor in the nation's wars, and traces of American democratic political ideology in the immigrants' ethnic past. These stories proclaim that immigrants, in the person of their ancestors, disembarked from Christopher Columbus's ships, fought for victory over the Axis, and brought American values of freedom and democracy from their native lands. By virtue of their ethnic group's contributions, these myths maintain, non-Anglo European immigrants came to America not as foreigners but as ready-made ideal citizens of the Republic. characteristics that they must be considered an American phenomenon rather than one peculiar to an individual ethnic group. As a symbol of the immigrant's insider status, these stories have played a crucial role in forming American ethnic identities and in carving out a place for immigrants in an Anglo-dominated society. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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