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Schultz, April R. "A Peculiar People: Celebration, Historical Memory, and the Creation of Ethnic Identity Among Norwegian Americans in the 1920s," University of Minnesota, 1991. Advisor: George Lipsitz/David W. Noble (8, 2, 11)
This dissertation analyzes the 1925 Norwegian-American Immigration Centennial, a national celebration, as a strategic site for the invention of ethnicity. Through this celebration, Norwegian Americans constructed their own, though quite contested, vision of the past and the present, a social and cultural construction that both accommodated and resisted dominant Anglo-American conceptions of assimilation. Utilizing the methods and insights of history, anthropology, and literary criticism, this dissertation proposes generalizable principles about ethnicity building upon current work in cultural studies and challenging the dichotomies in immigration studies between assimilation on the one hand and a fragmented pluralism on the other.
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