126. Ethnic Communities in Decline; or, Whatever Happened to German
America?
Sunday, January 9, 8:30–10:30 a.m.
Convention Center, Room 212
Joint Session with the Immigration and Ethnic History Society
- Chair: Kathleen
N. Conzen, University of Chicago
- Papers:
Transformative Decline: Gender, Ethnic Mixing, and the Remaking
of
German Philadelphia, 1890–1940
Russell A. Kazal, University of Toronto at Scarborough
"I Speak American": Midwest Rural Communities and
the Decline of German American Identity
Carol K. Coburn, Avila University
The Fall of an Empire: The Twentieth-Century Decline of German-Language
Journalism
James M. Bergquist, Villanova University
- Comment: Kathleen N. Conzen
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