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By focusing on patterns of immigration and acculturation in a small industrial city in the northeastern United States, Mark Paul Richard offers a noteworthy look at the ways in which French-Canadians negotiated their identity in the United States and prov ... Read more

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Mark Paul Richard (Coordinator of the Canadian Studies program at the State University of New York-Plattsburgh and Associate Professor of History and Canadian Studies) presents Loyal but French: The Negotiation of Identity by French-Canadian Descendants in the United States, a thoughtful study of French-Canadian Americans. From Catholic French-Canadian immigrants into Protestant territory in 1850 to the assimilation of Franco-Americans during and after the World War II era, to issues of identity in the modern day, Loyal but French explores how Franco-Americans aligned their politics, contributed to the effort for worker's rights, and much more. Loyal but French is a scholarly, heavily researched study, that nonetheless remains accessible to readers of all backgrounds. Especially recommended for college library collections.

French-Canadian immigrants in Maine become American
Richard takes a sociological approach to follow how French-Canadians in the small Maine city of Lewiston became more and more integrated into and reflective of American society by what he calls a process of "acculturation" which he opposes to the concept of "assimilation" ordinarily applied to how immigrant groups become a part of American society. The author is from Lewiston, and is now coordinator for the Canadian Studies program at SUNY-Plattsburg.

Mostly from the Quebec area, the French-Canadians began coming to Lewiston in the mid 1800s, when the Maine city was a thriving mill town with a Protestant population. Like the Irish in other parts of the U.S. at this time, the French-Canadians met with prejudice for their Catholicism. Churches were attacked, and they found only the most menial, arduous employment. Like other immigrant groups too throughout U.S. history, they kept mostly to themselves in enclaves where their native language was spoken. But the pathway to becoming fully a part of American society was not simply or fundamentally according to Richard a single-minded effort to overcome resistance from local Anglo Protestants. The French-Canadians had no desire nor intention to shed their background or identity to become "American" as quickly as possible. Though meaning to become Americans, they did so in their own way. "French-Canadian descendants became political and cultural members of the host society at their own pace, on their own terms, and largely with their own resources."

Richard follows this development of acculturation occurring over many decades with statistics, studies, and data revealing all its diversified, yet interrelated facets. This material ranges from statistical tables, data on marriage partners, citizenship records, political changes, and education and labor records. This material is interspersed with news reports covering incidents of violence for example and vignettes on individuals or local organizations. Despite the heavily sociological, largely objective perspective, the material is generally not dry as it is sharply focused on a recognizable community.

Though focusing on a small immigrant community in a small city in the upper northeastern reaches of the United States, Richard sees his detailed study as representative, not atypical of immigrant group patterns, behavior, and mentality. Though the material is not slanted to make an argument for this, near the end Richard proffers that his study "challenges our understanding of the process of Americanization and has implications for policymakers. He notes specifically that it challenges the notion that immigrants have been "uprooted" or "transplanted." As his study discloses, immigrants do in a meaningful sense bring their "roots" with them and engage in a more involved and drawn-out process of transplanting than policymakers and the public generally realize.
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