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Odd S. Lovoll. The Promise Fulfilled: A Portrait of Norwegian Americans Today.

Publication: Scandinavian Studies
Publication Date: 22-MAR-08 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Odd S. Lovoll. The Promise Fulfilled: A Portrait of Norwegian Americans Today.(Book review)

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Odd S. Lovoll. The Promise Fulfilled: A Portrait of Norwegian Americans Today. Minneapolis: U Minnesota v, 2007. XV + 299 pp. Illustrated. Paperbound. $24.95.

To be American is to be ethnic in greater or lesser degree, for we all have roots elsewhere in the world. But what does ethnicity actually mean beyond the immigrant generation itself? Odd S. Lovoll states that this book, first published in 1998 and here reprinted, is intended as a case study of the "duration of ethnic loyalties, the role of an ethnic 'hard core' in generating ethnic self-awareness, and the shifting content and symbols of a Norwegian-American identity" (2). As such, this is a truly groundbreaking investigation of the meaning of ethnicity among immigrant descendants. Migration research has always concentrated heavily upon the migration process...

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