| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.3

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| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.3 | The History Cooperative

June Granatir Alexander. Ethnic Pride, American Patriotism: Slovaks and Other New Immigrants in the Interwar Era. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. 2004. Pp. xiv, 278. Cloth $64.50, paper $22.95.
While many scholars focus on the period from 1917 to 1945 in United States history as a time when immigrants and especially their children lost much of their ethnic identity, June Granatir Alexander provides a much more complex story of ethnic activism, cultural pride, and dual identity. Alexander focuses on the transformation of Slovak communities in America as they faced homeland crises, nativism, immigrant restriction, economic hardship, and two world wars. In exploring the first and second generation's celebration of ethnic heritage found in church, community, and national events, the author challenges "whiteness" studies that deemphasize ethnicity as lost under the intensity of racism and the completeness of Americanization.	1
Alexander also disagrees with historical interpretations that discount the role ethnicity played during national crises, that downplay the importance of ethnic heritage for second-generation immigrants, and that fail to capture the complexities of ethnic identity. Instead, she contends that "the picture that emerges from the interwar years is that new immigrants and their children sought to assert a presence in America's culturally diverse society and that ethnicity remained a relevant part of their lives" (p. 221).	. . .

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