Morsels in the Melting Pot, The Persistence of Dutch Immigrant Communities in North America (Heftet (myke permer))

The Dutch presence in North America has been best preserved in the two largest denominations, the Reformed Church and Christian Reformed Church. But outside these denominations seven more developed over time, of which some are hardly visible for outsiders, and also non-protestant groups tried to stay together. The eighteen essays in this volume describe the ways in which small groups of Dutch immigrants made efforts to maintain their identities in the United States and Canada between 1800 and 2000. Until now, many of those groups had never been objects of academic research. In the essays presented here, the Dutch, American, and Canadian authors zoom in on the connections of these groups with the Netherlands, with other Dutch-Americans, and other ethnic groups. All of them faced the issues of language and education.

Preface; Introduction; Of Weeds and Wall Flowers: Small Dutch Ethnic Communities in North America; Still Bowling Together: Social Capital of Dutch Protestant Immigrant Groups in North America; Walls or Bridges? Acculturation Processes in the Reformed and Christian Reformed Churches in North America; Pietism Beyond Patria: A Dutch Religious Heritage in America 43; Piety beyond the Palisades: The True Reformed Dutch Church, 1822-1924; The Struggle of the Netherlands Reformed Congregations; The Protestant Reformed Churches: Organisation, Roots, and Future; The Free Reformed Churches of North America; The Canadian Reformed Churches: Continuity and (Some) Change, 1950-2005; Preservation of the Language and Perseverance of the Saints: Critical Comments on Religious Orthodoxy and the Loss of the Native Tongue; When Perfection Comes: Dutch Pentecostal Immigrants in America; In the Shadow of the "Schur": Dutch Roman-Catholic Emigration to the Fox River Valley, Wisconsin; Building the House of the Future: Van Eeden Colony, Dream and Reality, 1909-1921; From Loosduinen to Los Angeles: The Transatlantic Flow of Social Capital through a Dutch Immigrant Family, 1910-1940; The Dutch Immigrants of Southern California & the Dairy Industry,1920-1960; "Those Dutchmen Do Have a Wild Look About Them": The Christian Labour Association of Canada and the Christelijk Nationaal Vakverbond in the Netherlands, 1952-1958; "Unholy Mess": The IRM California Real Estate Investment Debacle of the 1990s and the Christian Reformed Church in North America; Dutch Communities in an American Setting; Index.