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Showing 1 to 20 of 48 for “"Americanization"”.
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Marshall Plan Films and Americanization
George Marshall's speech to an audience at Harvard University in June of 1947 announced a plan that eventually made its way through the United States congress and took the form of the European Recovery Plan (ERP). The ERP distributed roughly thirteen billion dollars in aid to sixteen European …
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The drama as a factor in Americanization
… may be so utilized as to bring about and further Americanization. In attempting to make this theory clear to those who may be more or less unfamiliar with the idea, it will be necessary to consider the definition of Americanization, and to make some decision as to who may be Americanized. It will …
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Theories of Americanization operative in Gary Schools, 1907-1917
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Narrating Americanization: space and form in U.S. immigrant writing, 1890-1927
… that complicate how we understand processes of Americanization. I structure my analysis around three major forces of U.S. culture that appear at the intersection of immigrant literary expression and space: labor, law, and landscape. Each of these forces, I contend, exerts distinct pressures on …
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Collateral Damage: The De-Americanization of Muslim Americans After 9/11
… have been subjected to the process of de-Americanization, which is the stripping of social membership a privilege of citizenship. Religious signifiers, gender, and space all play an important role in the process of de-Americanization. Muslim men in the sample were more likely to experience …
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The New Orleans Female Orphan Society: Labor, Education, and Americanization, 1817-1833
In the first few decades of the nineteenth century, Americans and immigrants moved to New Orleans hoping to take advantage of the opportunities the city offered. Many American citizens moved from cities like Boston, New York, and Philadelphia. Recognizing the lack of social welfare programs and …
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Rhetoric and feminism in the Americanization Era: The YWCA's rhetorical education program for immigrant women
… Founded in the United States during the Americanization Era of the early 20 th century, the International Institute movement developed programs and services for immigrant women. One of the most prominent, and least examined, aspects of the movement was its work in the area of rhetorical …
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Toying with Americanization: The Impact of Corporate Paternalism on Immigrant Children in Early 20th Century Colorado Coal Mining Communities
<p>During the early 20<sup>th</sup> century coal miners' lives in Southern Colorado were fraught with violence and hardships. Many immigrant men brought their families to remote areas to live in company towns and work in coal mines. The Colorado Fuel and Iron Company (CF&I) attempted to assimilate …
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The Americanization of the Virgin Islands, 1917-1946: Politics and Class Struggle During the First Thirty Years of American Rule
This study describes how the interaction between Virgin Islanders and their new American rulers shaped the political relationship between the Virgin Islands and the United States. Once control of the islands had passed from Denmark to the United states, Virgin Islanders forced American Officials to …
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Americanization, Language Policy, and the Promise of Education: Public School Formation and Educational Attainment in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and Nogales, Arizona, 1880-1942
… public schools in addition to exploring how Americanization shaped the educational attainment of Hispanic students therein from the 1890s until the early 1940s. This study also comments on the overall contradictions of the intercultural exchanges seen throughout the greater U.S.-Mexico …
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From <i>Zadruga</i> to oil refinery: Croatian immigrants and Croatian-Americans in Whiting, Indiana, 1890 to 1950
… Catholic parish and two fraternal organizations. Americanization affected immigrant speech and diet. Americanization had great impact on Croatian-Americans. Public schools, popular entertainment, military service, and ethnic out-group marriages effectively Americanized the immigrants’ children. …
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The makings and unmakings of Americans: Indians and immigrants in American literature and culture, 1880-1924
… structurally connected roles in the drama of Americanization and assimilation. Recovering a genealogy of a combined cultural resistance to regimes of “making Americans” in a variety of literary genres and in silent film, this project shows how American Indian and Immigrant students of American …
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Tradition and Change: Two Buddhisms in the Bible Belt Sharing Common Ground Through Adaptation
… Burmese Buddhism through a process of Americanization. As a result of Theravada Buddhism’s relocation, change in Buddhism can also be seen in the American form, which is believed by many to becoming its own unique school of Buddhism. This can be found occurring in the regions of south …
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History of Immigrant Female Students in Chicago Public Schools, 1900--1950
… historical analysis of the 1900--1950 era of Americanization, immigration, and school response. The study group is female students primarily from Chicago's major immigrant communities: Irish, Jewish, Italian, and Polish. Previous histories on immigrant education used ethnic differences to …
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The negotiation processes between remotely acculturating divorced coparents in relation to children's adjustment in urban Turkey: The moderating role of coparenting quality
… revealed that the association between mothers’ Americanization and their children’s internalizing behaviors significantly differed as a function of fathers’ Americanization. First, under the conditions of high triangulation, children whose mothers had low American orientation paired with fathers …
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Plessy to Brown: Education of Mexican Americans in Arizona public schools during the era of segregation
… These educational programs had their roots in Americanization policies implemented earlier in the twentieth century. At the root of the Americanization policies in the Southwest was the notion that the Mexican immigrant was culturally inferior and could not be assimilated into the American …
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Inquiry into the Latin and Spanish Cultural Presentations of Spanish First Year Textbooks
… Spain. The researcher also seeks to explore the Americanization of Latin culture. This study focuses upon three areas of cultural presentation found in the three texts: cultural paragraphs and essays, illustrations and photographs, and vocabulary. All areas are the means in which the authors …
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Language, Ideology, and Education: A Comparative Analysis of Bilingual Education Programs and the Question of Black English
… such programs is actually little more than the Americanization ideology in a more sophisticated guise; and last, an analysis of the nature of Black English (from a linguistic perspective), the problems posed by the presence of Black English speakers in the public schools, and some of the …
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"""The Great Spirit of Solidarity"": The Illinois Valley Mining Communities and the Formation of Interethnic Consciousness, 1889--1917"
… of transnationlism to examine the processes of Americanization and working class formation. The study focuses on the way in which working class residents of the multiethnic and multiracial Illinois valley defined ethnic, gender, race, and class identities, together and apart, at the turn of the …
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Education: Public Policy and the American Indian
… is a loss of the various material gains and Americanization attributed to assimilation. Individuals, families, and tribes respond differently to this dilemma. Naturally, therefore, a policy decision by the federal government or a state government affecting the dilemma is subject immediately …
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