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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Moore, Benjamin (1961-....)
Titre(s) : The names of John Gergen [Texte imprimé] : immigrant identities in early twentieth-century St. Louis / Benjamin Moore
Publication : Columbia (Mo.) : University of Missouri Press, copyright 2021
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XVI-345 p.) : ill. ; 24 cm
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. 321-334. Notes bibliogr. Index
"The Names of John Gergen examines the converging governmental and institutional forces
that affected the lives of migrants in the industrial neighborhoods of South St. Louis
in the early twentieth century" ; "Rescued from the dumpster of a boarded-up house,
the yellowing scraps of a young migrant's schoolwork provided Benjamin Moore with
the jumping-off point for this study of migration, memory, and identity. Centering
on the compelling story of its eponymous subject, The Names of John Gergen examines
the converging governmental and institutional forces that affected the lives of migrants
in the industrial neighborhoods of South St. Louis in the early twentieth century.
These migrants were Banat Swabians from Torontál County in southern Hungary--they
were Catholic, agrarian, and ethnically German. The Names of John Gergen examines
the converging governmental and institutional forces that affected the lives of migrants
in the industrial neighborhoods of South St. Louis in the early twentieth century.
These migrants were Banat Swabians from Torontál County in southern Hungary--they
were Catholic, agrarian, and ethnically German. Between 1900 and 1920, the St. Louis
neighborhoods occupied by migrants were sites of efforts by civic authorities and
social reformers to counter the perceived threat of foreignness by attempting to Americanize
foreign-born residents. At the same time, these neighborhoods saw the strengthening
of Banat Swabians' ethnic identities. Historically, scholars and laypeople have understood
migrants in terms of their aspirations and transformations, especially their transformations
into Americans. The experiences of John Gergen and his kin, however, suggest that
identity at the level of the individual was both more fragmented and more fluid than
twentieth-century historians have recognized, subject to a variety of forces that
often pulled migrants in multiple directions."
Sujet(s) : Américains d'origine hongroise -- Saint Louis (Mo., États-Unis) -- 1900-1945
Émigration et immigration -- Banat (Hongrie) -- 1900-1945
Émigration et immigration -- Saint Louis (Mo., États-Unis) -- 1900-1945
Allemands du Banat -- Saint Louis (Mo., États-Unis) -- 1900-1945
Indice(s) Dewey :
304.873 043 (23e éd.) = Migration de l'Europe centrale Allemagne vers les États-Unis ; 977.8 (23e éd.) = Histoire - États-Unis - Missouri
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780826222275 (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb47124627p
Notice n° :
FRBNF47124627
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Soulard and its discontents (1903-1914) ; Sorting the Albecks (1909-1910) ; Becoming
John Gergen (1910-1915) ; 916A Allen Avenue (1916-1920) ; "Have you a mother?" (1917-1918)
; Beyond the walk from home to school (1920-1926) ; Becoming John Albeck (1926-1930)
; "Our dear son, brother, brother-in-law, uncle, nephew, and cousin" (1930-1935)
; The forgetting (1935-1993).
