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 provides new insights into the ways in which immigrants "Americanize."Richard’s work challenges prevailing notions of "assimilation." As he shows; “acculturation†better describes the roundabout process by which some ethnic groups join their host society. He argues that; for more than a century; the French- Canadians in Lewiston; Maine; pursued the twin objectives of ethnic preservation and acculturation. These were not separate goals but rather intertwined processes. Underscored with statistics compiled by the author; Loyal but French portrays the French-Canadian history of Lewiston; from the 1880s through the 1990s; in this light.
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