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The Old Country and the New
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 320

The Old Country and the New

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2007
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  • Publisher: SIU Press

"In this collection are seventeen essays and seven editorials by Barton and published in leading journals between 1974 and 2005. The subjects include post-World War II Swedish immigration and remigration to Sweden. A full bibliography of Barton's publications on Swedish-American history and culture is included"--Provided by publisher

History of the Finns in Michigan
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 548

History of the Finns in Michigan

A history of the Finnish people in Michigan published in English for the first time.

Challenge Accepted
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 275

Challenge Accepted

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2010-02-19
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  • Publisher: MSU Press

The copper mines of Michigan's Copper Country, in the Upper Peninsula, were active for 150 years, from 1845 until 1995. Many of the mine workers attempted to unionize, in order to obtain better working conditions, wages, and hours. The Michigan miners were unsuccessful in their struggles with mine owners, which came to a climax in the 1913–14 Copper Country Strike. This nine-month battle between workers represented by the Western Federation of Miners (WFM) and the three major mining companies in the region took a particularly nasty turn on Christmas Eve, 1913, at a party for strikers and their families organized by the WFM. As many as 500 people were in the Italian Benevolent Society hall ...

Immigrant Minds, American Identities
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 268

Immigrant Minds, American Identities

Devised by individual ethnic leaders and spread through ethnic media, banquets, and rallies, these myths were a response to being marginalized by the dominant group and a way of laying claim to a legitimate home in America."--BOOK JACKET.

Finnish Settler Colonialism in North America
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 316

Finnish Settler Colonialism in North America

Finnish Settler Colonialism in North America reinterprets Finnish experiences in North America by connecting them to the transnational processes of settler colonial conquest, far-settlement, elimination of natives, and capture of terrestrial spaces. Rather than merely exploring whether the idea of Finns as a different kind of immigrant is a myth, this book challenges it in many ways. It offers an analysis of the ways in which this myth manifests itself, why it has been upheld to this day, and most importantly how it contributes to settler colonialism in North America and beyond. The authors in this volume apply multidisciplinary perspectives in revealing the various levels of Finnish involve...

Pioneer Pastors' Wives Chose the Role of Service, Or, A Noble But Often Difficult Calling
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 46

Pioneer Pastors' Wives Chose the Role of Service, Or, A Noble But Often Difficult Calling

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1987
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The Life of Jacob J. Hoikka and His Share in Democratizing the Suomi Synod
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 182

The Life of Jacob J. Hoikka and His Share in Democratizing the Suomi Synod

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1990
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Nordic Whiteness and Migration to the USA
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 159

Nordic Whiteness and Migration to the USA

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2020-08-03
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  • Publisher: Routledge

This volume explores the complex and contradictory ways in which the cultural, scientific and political myth of whiteness has influenced identities, self-perceptions and the process of integration of Nordic immigrants into multicultural and racially segregated American society in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In deploying central insights from whiteness studies, postcolonial feminist and intersectionality theories, it shows that Nordic immigrants - Danes, Swedes, Finns, Norwegians and Sámi - contributed to and challenged American racism and white identity. A diverse group of immigrants, they could proclaim themselves ‘hyper-white’ and ‘better citizens than anybody else’, i...

Migration from Finland to North America in the Years Between the United States Civil War and the First World War
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 276
New Sweden in America
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 380

New Sweden in America

"Although it was the first permanent European settlement in the Delaware River valley, the New Sweden colony has long been ignored by American colonial historians. To right this omission, and to mark the 350th anniversary of the founding of the New Sweden colony, the University of Delaware sponsored an international conference, "New Sweden in America: Scandinavian Pioneers and Their Legacy" in March of 1988. This event brought together twenty-eight scholars from Sweden, Finland, and the United States who represented several fields, including history, anthropology, and geography. The conference papers, collected in New Sweden in America, present the first look at the New Sweden colony since t...