Research Catalog

Title

Urban villages and local identities : Germans from Russia, Omaha Indians, and Vietnamese in Lincoln, Nebraska / Kurt E. Kinbacher ; plainsword by Timothy R. Mahoney.

Author

Kinbacher, Kurt E.

Publication

Lubbock, Texas : Texas Tech University Press, 2015.

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Details

Additional Authors

Peck, Gunther

Description

xiv, 265 pages, 16 pages of plates; 23 cm

Summary

"Urban Villages and Local Identities examines immigration to the Great Plains by surveying the experiences of three divergent ethnic groups--Volga Germans, Omaha Indians, and Vietnamese--that settled in enclaves in Lincoln, Nebraska, beginning in 1876, 1941, and 1975, respectively. These urban villages served as safe havens that protected new arrivals from a mainstream that often eschewed unfamiliar cultural practices. Lincoln's large Volga German population was last fully discussed in 1918; Omahas are rarely studied as urban people although sixy-five percent of their population lives in cities; and the growing body of work on Vietnamese tends to be conducted by social scientists rather than historians, few of whom contrast Southeast Asian experiences with those of earlier waves of immigration. As a comparative study, Urban Villages and Local Identities is inspired, in part, by Reinventing Free Labor, by Gunther Peck. By focusing on the experiences of three populations over the course of 130 years, Urban Villages connects two distinct eras of international border crossing and broadens the field of immigration to include Native Americans. Ultimately, the work yields insights into the complexity, flexibility, and durability of cultural identities among ethnic groups and the urban mainstream in one capital city"--

Series Statement

Plains histories

Uniform Title

Plains histories.

Subjects

• Ethnic neighborhoods > Nebraska > Lincoln
• City and town life > Nebraska > Lincoln
• Community life > Nebraska > Lincoln
• Omaha Indians > Nebraska > Lincoln > Social conditions
• Russian Germans > Nebraska > Lincoln > Social conditions
• Ethnicity > Nebraska > Lincoln
• Lincoln (Neb.) > Ethnic relations
• HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
• Immigrants > Nebraska > Lincoln > Social conditions
• Lincoln (Neb.) > Emigration and immigration > Social aspects
• SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban
• Vietnamese > Nebraska > Lincoln > Social conditions

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction: Ethnicity and Identity in Lincoln; Performed Culture; Ethnic Saliency; Urban Villages; Frameworks of this Study -- 1. Local Knowledge and National Perspectives : Ethnicities and the Mainstream in Lincoln -- Omaha Confinement and Disfranchisement -- Volga German Immigration -- Omahas Return to the Salt Basin -- Vietnamese Immigration -- Multiculturalism in the Modern Mainstream -- 2. Life in the Russian Bottoms : Community Building and Identity Transformation among Germans from Russia -- The Founding Generation -- "We Became Americanized" : The Second Fifty Years -- Survivals, Revivals, and a New German from Russia Identity -- Conclusion -- 3. From the Big Village to the Urban Village : Omahas in Lincoln -- Community -- Particularism : The Omaha Way -- Cosmopolitanism -- Transnationalism -- Conclusion -- 4. Vietnamese Urban Villagers in Lincoln : Clustered Communities and Flexible Identities -- Immigrant Communities -- Particularism -- Cosmopolitanism -- Transnationalism -- Conclusion -- 5. Comparisons : Identities and Communities during the Long Twentieth Century -- Pluralistic Communities -- Ethnicity and Race -- Transnationalism, Internationalism, and Nationalism -- Performed Culture -- Conclusion.

Call Number

JFE 15-7911

ISBN

• 9780896728936 (hardcover : alkaline paper)
• 0896728935 (hardcover : alkaline paper)
• 9780896728943 (paperback : alkaline paper)
• 0896728943 (paperback : alkaline paper)
• 9780896728950 (e-book) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2014047397

OCLC

877844519

Author

Kinbacher, Kurt E.

Title

Urban villages and local identities : Germans from Russia, Omaha Indians, and Vietnamese in Lincoln, Nebraska / Kurt E. Kinbacher ; plainsword by Timothy R. Mahoney.

Publisher

Lubbock, Texas : Texas Tech University Press, 2015.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Plains histories

Plains histories.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Peck, Gunther. Reinventing free labor.

Sudoc No.

Z TT422.8 K573ur txdocs

Research Call Number

JFE 15-7911