How Dutch Americans Stayed Dutch

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How Dutch Americans Stayed Dutch is written by Michael J. Douma and published by . It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 9089646450 (ISBN 10) and 9789089646453 (ISBN 13).

The Dutch-American ethnic group demonstrates the persistence of Dutchness, which, however, has come to mean many different things in an American context. This study demonstrates that Dutch identities, focusing on the nineteenth and twentieth-century immigrants, have survived precisely because of this flexibility: the evolution of tradition, not its rigid preservation, is the unifying principle of social cohesion. As Douma contends, to understand ethnic groups we need to see them as historically developing, changeable categories.