Scandinavians in Chicago
The Origins of White Privilege in Modern America
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4157397 |
|---|---|
| Authors | L Deane Lagerquist (St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 106 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 791-791 |
| Publication date | 2019-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of American History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8723 • E-ISSN: 1945-2314 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/jahist/jaz604 |
| OpenAlex | W2993399270 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
Ericka K. Jackson's study joins and enriches the growing literature employing the revised paradigm proposed by Paul Spickard in Almost All Aliens: Immigration, Race, and Colonialism in American History and Identity (2007). Asserting that the assimilationist model of immigration studies needed to be overturned, Spickard proposed treating immigration and race as intertwining parts of one American story. Jackson does so for Scandinavians, a group that received relatively minimal attention in Spickard's massive volume. Jackson limits her study geographically to Chicago while providing a long chronological view of Scandinavian identity formation from antebellum arrivals in the young city to the present day. Unlike much scholarship (and popular writing) about early Scandinavian immigration, she does not limit her topic by European origin, though Swedes appear more frequently than Norwegians or Danes. Her focusing issue concerns the ways these immigrants, whose race was undeniably white, were understood by “American” Chicagoans and understood themselves as the nation made and remade categories of identity including race, ethnicity, and gender. Chapter topics range from national displays at the 1893 Columbian Exposition to Nordic entries in photographic beauty contests to elite Chicagoans' preference for “Swedish maids” to the early twentieth-century Nordic Country Club. Sources Jackson uses to examine these topics vary from the statistical, to foreign-language and English-language press, to memoirs and letters. Understandably, the uneven availability of sources results in rather different treatment of topics. Personal correspondence between the relatively few men involved with the Nordic Country Club, for example, allows a depth of attention to their motivations and experiences that is not possible for the many women in domestic service
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Genealogy · Identity (music · Immigration · Memoir · National identity · Political science · Politics · Privilege (computing · Scholarship · Sociology · White (mutation · Canadian Identity and History · Gender Studies · History · Law · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Race, History, and American Society
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,4 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2022 (2) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |