Mapping Transnationality: Roots Tourism and the Institutionalization of Ethnic Heritage

2020 ◽  
pp. 133-153
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Heritage ◽  
Roots Tourism

Women’s Czech Folk Costume: Negotiating Ambivalence and White Ethnicity in the Midwest

2021 ◽  
pp. 0887302X2110275
Author(s):  
Erin French ◽  
Kelly L. Reddy-Best
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Identity ◽  
Business Practices ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Cultural Traditions ◽  
White Ethnicity ◽  
Czech Population ◽  
Large Numbers ◽  
Ethnic Heritage

Folk costume is traditionally worn to represent and preserve ethnic heritage. Large numbers of Czechs emigrated to America from the 1870s to 1920s, but eventually, a generation was born that had little contact with their immigrant ancestors. The purpose of our research was to examine what role folk costume plays in the negotiation of Czech ethnic identity and how meaning is constructed and communicated through Czech folk costumes for modern-day wearers. We conducted 11 indepth, semi-structured interviews with descendants of Czech immigrants in a previously unexplored Czech population of the Midwest. We identified four major themes: feelings of connectedness; sense of pride and joy; importance of perceived authenticity; and variation, nuance, and meaning of costume construction and style. Through our work, we contribute to the preservation and documentation of modern-day Czech traditions, ongoing discussions surrounding defining cultural traditions, and business practices of retailers.

scholarly journals Old World Homecomings: Campaigns of Ancestral Tourism and Cultural Diplomacy, 1945–66

2021 ◽  
pp. 002200942098684
Author(s):  
Adam Hjorthén
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Diplomacy ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Marshall Plan ◽  
Old World ◽  
Subsequent Transformation ◽  
Political Incentives ◽  
Liberal Democratic ◽  
History Of ◽  
National Economies ◽  
Roots Tourism

This article examines the history of ancestral tourism and its development as a form of cultural diplomacy between 1945 and 1966. The phenomenon often referred to as ‘roots tourism’ has during the last decades increased in popularity, especially in Old World countries that historically have sent large numbers of people to North America. While previous scholarship has focused on its existential dimensions and its relation to the twenty-first century tourism and heritage economies, this article looks at how ancestral tourism grew out of European attempts at expanding the tourism industry after 1945. It studies the international spread of ‘person-to-person’ programs that sought to turn travelers into ‘ambassadors’, and the subsequent transformation of such initiatives into ‘homecoming’ campaigns through notions of co-descent, targeting Americans of European descent. By exploring the case of the 1966 Homecoming Year campaign in Sweden, the article shows that the attraction of ancestral tourism was grounded in its ability to combine economic and political incentives articulated in the Marshall Plan. It developed out of a liberal-democratic ideology that vested individual travelers with diplomatic agency. In the process, European tourist agencies calcified the notion that ancestral tourism served not only individual experiences, but also national economies and international relations.

Empowerment: A Social Work Approach for Asian Immigrants

1988 ◽  
Vol 69 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hisashi Hirayama ◽  
Muammer Cetingok
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Population Group ◽  
Asian Immigrants ◽  
Major Goal ◽  
Immigrants And Refugees ◽  
Values And Beliefs ◽  
Ethnic Heritage ◽  
American Society ◽  
Group Workers

Asian immigrants and refugees are often powerless in American society. Thus client empowerment should be a major goal in working with this population group. Workers should help these clients adapt to their environment without abandoning their ethnic heritage, values, and beliefs.

Ethnic Heritage in Mississippi.

1994 ◽  
Vol 60 (2) ◽  
pp. 362
Author(s):  
Robin F. A. Fabel ◽  
Barbara Carpenter ◽  
Patricia K. Galloway
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Heritage

scholarly journals La Enciclopedia Álvarez: recurso adoctrinador de una identidad nacional esencialista

2020 ◽  
pp. 137
Author(s):  
Erika González García
Keyword(s):  
Primary Schools ◽  
Heritage Language ◽  
Qualitative Methodology ◽  
Identidad Nacional ◽  
Historical Method ◽  
Documentary Sources ◽  
National Catholicism ◽  
Ethnic Heritage ◽  
The Moment

This article is focused on the identities of peoples, a matter of current relevance, among other reasons because it is linked to the issue of nationalisms. We adopt a uniform and essentialist conception of the being of each people, particularly in dictatorial regimes. This way of conceiving identity is characterized by its consideration of history, ethnic heritage, language, values - considered to be eternal - , together with heroes and their symbols, as the pillars that support it; this is what is called an essentialist identity. We use the three volumes of the Álvarez Encyclopedia as documentary sources. The qualitative methodology used is of a hermeneutical nature, taking into account the contributions of the historical method. The main objective of this research is to reveal what was considered the essence of being Spanish in the Álvarez Encyclopedia, which was the most widely used textbook in the primary schools under the Francoist regime. The textbooks analyzed served as instruments for shaping and conforming children in the ideals of the moment, that is, in  national-Catholicism.

Mapping Polka and Its Ethnic Heritage in the United States

2007 ◽  
Vol 106 (2) ◽  
pp. 41-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diana Stuart Sinton ◽  
William A. Huber
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Ethnic Heritage

Introduction

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Takeyuki Tsuda
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Differences ◽  
Ethnic Minorities ◽  
Asian American ◽  
Research Methodology ◽  
American Studies ◽  
Theoretical Background ◽  
Relative Distance ◽  
Japanese Americans ◽  
Asian American Studies ◽  
Ethnic Heritage

This introduction provides theoretical background for understanding ethnic heritage differences among different generations of Japanese Americans. It also addresses the importance of ethnic heritage for Asian American studies, as well as research on ethnic minorities, immigrants, and diasporas. The chapter interrogates the concept of generations and explores how ethnic heritage is relevant to analyses of homeland, assimilation, transnationalism, racialization, and multiculturalism. The research methodology section discusses the author’s fieldwork as a “native anthropologist” and argues that both native and non-native anthropologists are partial outsiders who are positioned at a relative distance from those they study in the field. Ultimately, the cultural differences anthropologists experience with “natives” are productive for fieldwork and essential for anthropological knowledge.

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