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Das Arkansas Echo
Kathleen Condray
其他書名
A Year in the Life of Germans in the Nineteenth-Century South
出版University of Arkansas Press, 2020-11-13
主題Language Arts & Disciplines / GeneralLanguage Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / SociolinguisticsHistory / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)Social Science / Emigration & ImmigrationSocial Science / Ethnic Studies / GeneralLanguage Arts & Disciplines / Journalism
ISBN168226145X9781682261453
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=6-r5DwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋In the late nineteenth century, a thriving immigrant population supported three German-language weekly newspapers in Arkansas. Most traces of the community those newspapers served disappeared with assimilation in the ensuing decades—but luckily, the complete run of one of the weeklies, Das Arkansas Echo, still exists, offering a lively picture of what life was like for this German immigrant community.

“Das Arkansas Echo”: A Year in the Life of Germans in the Nineteenth-Century South examines topics the newspaper covered during its inaugural year. Kathleen Condray illuminates the newspaper’s crusade against Prohibition, its advocacy for the protection of German schools and the German language, and its promotion of immigration. We also learn about aspects of daily living, including food preparation and preservation, religion, recreation, the role of women in the family and society, health and wellness, and practical housekeeping. And we see how the paper assisted German speakers in navigating civic life outside their immigrant community, including the racial tensions of the post-Reconstruction South.

“Das Arkansas Echo”: A Year in the Life of Germans in the Nineteenth-Century South offers a fresh perspective on the German speakers who settled in a modernizing Arkansas. Mining a valuable newspaper archive, Condray sheds light on how these immigrants navigated their new identity as southern Americans.