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The Dutch American Identity
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 ...
Quarterly Review
Includes section: "Some Michigan books."
A Genealogical Record with Pictures of Frisians who Became Americans
Jan Seids Vanderploeg (1848-1926) married Ifke Helder in 1874, and the family emigrated from The Netherlands to Zeeland, Michigan in 1881. Descendants lived chiefly in Michigan.
Encyclopedia of Immigration and Migration in the American West
Through sweeping entries, focused biographies, community histories, economic enterprise analysis, and demographic studies, this Encyclopedia presents the tapestry of the West and its population during various periods of migration. Examines the settling of the West and includes coverage of movements of American Indians, African Americans, and the often-forgotten role of women in the West's development.
