The Dutch American Identity
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Author | : Terence Schoone-Jongen |
Publisher | : Cambria Press |
Total Pages | : 394 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1604975652 |
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.
Author | : Hans Krabbendam |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 28 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Dutch Americans |
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Author | : Peter Ester |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 46 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Social Science |
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Author | : Benjamin Schmidt |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 492 |
Release | : 2001-11-12 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780521804080 |
Innocence Abroad explores the encounter between the Netherlands and the New World in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Author | : Michael J. Douma |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9789048523139 |
Author | : Maren Dingfelder Stone |
Publisher | : Peter Lang Pub Incorporated |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780820487717 |
The study is an imagological analysis of Dutch immigrants in the United States, giving insights into stereotyping, identity formation, and the marketing of ethnicity. Tracing Dutch-American literary images through four centuries of writing in American, the study emphasizes the continuity of Dutch-American history. The assessment of images in their socio-cultural context reveals the disparity between literary and socio-cultural perception, the latter of which often evokes Dutch ethnicity in the United States as a mere means to an end. While the study ascertains which images of Dutch Americans have dominated public perception, it also investigates the origins of such images, their persistence irrespective of time and location, and the reasons for their fluctuating interpretations."
Author | : Ulbe Bosma |
Publisher | : Amsterdam University Press |
Total Pages | : 504 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9089644547 |
In this book Ulbe Bosma explores the experience of immigrants in the Netherlands over sixty years and three generations. Looking at migrants from all countries, Bosma teases out how their ethnic identities are informed by Dutch culture, and how these immigrant identities evolve over time.“Fascinating, comprehensive, and historically grounded, this essential volume reveals how the colonial past continues to shape multicultural Dutch society. . . . It is an important counterpart to work on France, Britain, and Portugal.”—Andrea Smith, Lafayette College
Author | : Linda Pegman Doezema |
Publisher | : Gale Cengage |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Reference |
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Author | : Hans Krabbendam |
Publisher | : SUNY Press |
Total Pages | : 1200 |
Release | : 2009-09-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781438430133 |
A comprehensive history of bilateral relations between the Netherlands and the United States.
Author | : Albany Institute of History and Art |
Publisher | : SUNY Press |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 1987-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780939072101 |
The history, culture, and lifeways of New Netherland as researched and interpreted by Dutch and American scholars.