| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.4

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Ethnic Pride, American Patriotism: Slovaks and Other New Immigrants in the Interwar Era. By June Granatir Alexander. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004. xvi, 278 pp. Cloth, $64.50, ISBN 1-59213-251-0. Paper, $22.95, ISBN 1-59213-252-9.)

June Granatir Alexander has written an important book that challenges many of the assumptions of recent whiteness studies. The great strength of this clearly written, refreshingly jargon-free book is that it examines Slovak life on its own terms rather than from the perspective of some ideological construct that has little to do with actual lived experience. Alexander does not believe that the struggle to become "white" is central to the Slovak experience. Instead, she is concerned with efforts of the first generation to involve the second generation in the ethnic group's affairs, and she concludes that the second generation absorbed both Slovak and American values and customs in making a rather smooth adjustment to life as Slovak Americans.

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