Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Tables xi
5. Acknowledgments xiii
6. Introduction 1
7. PART ONE 1900
8. CHAPTER ONE German Philadelphia: A Social Portrait 15
9. CHAPTER TWO Two Neighborhoods 43
10. PART TWO Confronting Assimilation, 1900–1914
11. CHAPTER THREE The Gendered Crisis of the Vereinswesen 77
12. CHAPTER FOUR Destinations: The Ambiguous Lure of Mass Commercial and Consumer Culture 95
13. CHAPTER FIVE Destinations: Fractured Whiteness, “American” Identity, and the “Old Stock” Opening 109
14. CHAPTER SIX Resisting Assimilation: Middle-Class and Working-Class Approaches 130
15. PART THREE Storm, 1914–1919
16. CHAPTER SEVEN European War and Ethnic Mobilization 149
17. CHAPTER EIGHT Intervention, the Anti-German Panic, and the Fall of Public Germanness 171
18. PART FOUR Reshaping Identities in the 1920s
19. CHAPTER NINE An Ethnicity Subdued 195
20. CHAPTER TEN Changing Neighborhoods 213
21. CHAPTER ELEVEN Middle-Class Germans: American Identity and the “Stock” of “Our Forefathers” 232
22. CHAPTER TWELVE Workers and Catholics: Toward the “White Ethnic” 246
23. CONCLUSION Pluralism, Nationalism, Race, and the Fate of German America 261
24. APPENDIX The Neighborhood Census Samples 283
25. Notes 291
26. Index 371