Sökning: "American Swedish"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 233 avhandlingar innehållade orden American Swedish.

  1. 1. Becoming Swedish-American : The construction of an ethnic identity in the Augustana Synod, 1860-1917

    Författare :Dag Blanck; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; History; Historia; History subjects; Historieämnen; Historia; History;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation examines the construction of an ethnic identity in the Swedish-American community around the turn of the century 1900. It takes its starting points in discussions of the nature of ethnic identity, the role of ethnic leadership, and the process of nation-building and nationalism in 19th-century Europe and America. LÄS MER

  3. 2. The transience of American Swedish

    Författare :Staffan Klintborg; Engelska; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; transfer; pragmatic markers; nonce-borrowing; markedness; language loss; language death; language attrition; language alternation; divergence; convergence; continuum; contact linguistics; codeswitching; avoidance; American Swedish; automaticity; triggering; English language and literature; Engelska språk och litteratur ;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis concerns two languages in contact: English and Swedish. It is based on interviews with Swedes who came to North America with the last major wave of emigration. LÄS MER

  4. 3. D. L. Moody and Swedes : Shaping Evangelical Identity among Swedish Mission Friends 1867–1899

    Författare :David M. Gustafson; Kjell O. Lejon; Runar Eldebo; Linköpings universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Moody; Dwight; Swedes; Swedish; Mission; Friends; American; revivalism; free; Covenant; church; immigration; evangelical; identity; Chicago; ethnic; Alliance; Franson; Church history; Kyrkohistoria;

    Sammanfattning : The American Dwight L. Moody (1837–1899) was the most famous revivalist of the late 1800s and exercised a wide and lasting influence on the Protestant world, reaching Swedes in Sweden and America. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Svenska latinas : Ras, klass och kön i svenskhetens geografi

    Författare :Catrin Lundström; Hedvig Ekerwald; Beth Maina Ahlberg; Diana Mulinari; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Ethnicity; Racialization; diaspora; intersectionality; Latinidad; Swedishness; residential segregation; ethnicity; femininity; tropicalizations; popular culture; Cultural studies.; Etnicitet; sociologi; Sociology;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation examines diasporic narratives of Swedish national belonging among a group of young women of Latin American descent, born and/or raised in Sweden, and adoptees. Based on individual interviews, pair interviews, and focus group discussions with twenty-nine high school girls in the Stockholm region, the study aims to understand how mechanisms of exclusion and inclusion operate through intersecting power structures of race, class, gender, sexuality, and age, in the increasingly multi-ethnic Sweden. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Keep them strong, keep them friendly : Swedish-American relations and the Pax Americana, 1948-1952

    Författare :Charles Silva; Thorsten Borring Olesen; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; diplomatic history; European integration; European Recovery Program; international politics; Marshall Plan; military history; NATO; OEEC; political history; liberalization; non-alignment; productivity; rearmament; security policy; stabilization; Sweden 20th century; Swedish-American relations; Swedish trade; United States foreign policy; historia; History;

    Sammanfattning : This is a study of Swedish-American relations between 1948 and 1952, a period of exceptional flux and complexity in international politics. In this era of recovery and integration in Western Europe, the United States became profoundly engaged in European political, economic, and military affairs. LÄS MER