| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.1

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Book Review

Germans in the Southwest, 1850–1920. By Tomas Jaehn. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2005. xiv, 242 pp. $24.95, ISBN 0-8263-3498-9.)
Tomas Jaehn, the curator of library collections at the Fray Angélico Chávez History Library in Santa Fe, New Mexico, focuses on an area not usually associated with German Americans, the southwestern United States, specifically New Mexico, where they were not the predominant ethnic group as they were throughout the midwestern states of the "German belt." His study aims to analyze "German acculturation processes under these ethnically diverse circumstances," and he argues that Germans coming to the region prior to the 1880s "were more interested in acculturation than cultural preservation" (p. 2).	1
By 1850, there were little more than two hundred Germans in New Mexico, and as their numbers increased, they felt the Hispanic host society amenable to their presence. Only after the arrival of Anglo-Americans later in the century did German Americans begin to display German ethnicity. In this sense, they then began to follow "the broader experiences of Germans in other parts of the United States" (p. 3). However, since their numbers were smaller than those in the midwestern states, ethnic antipathies and nativist hostilities did not, it appears, develop. Although Germans felt threatened enough to begin forming German organizations and sponsoring German activities, they lived "untroubled in the Anglo-American centers of New Mexico where demonstrations of ethnicity were of little significance" (p. 141).	. . .

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