Serbian Americans : N017.

Included WorkBrkich, Lazar. Serbian fraternal, social, and cultural organizations in America.
Included WorkGakovich, Robert P. Serbs in the United States and Canada.
Included WorkMatejic, Mateja Serbian writers in America.
Included WorkPadgett, Deborah. Settlers and sojourners.
Included WorkPadgett, Deborah. Symbolic ethnicity and patterns of ethnic identity assertion in American-born Serbs.
Included WorkSimić, Andrei. Old World tradition helps to preserve ethnic heritage and values among Serbian-Americans.
Included WorkSimić, Andrei. Serbian family in America.
Included WorkSimić, Andrei. Winners and losers.
Included WorkVrga, Djuro J. Changes and socio-religious conflict in an ethnic minority group.
Included WorkVucinich, Nicholas V. From the Adriatic to the Pacific.
Other author/creatorHuman Relations Area Files, inc.
SerieseHRAF world cultures. North America
EHRAF world cultures. North America. UNAUTHORIZED
Contents Serbian fraternal, social, and cultural organizations in America / Lazar Brkich -- Serbs in the United States and Canada / Robert P. Gakovich -- Serbian writers in America / Mateja Matejic -- Settlers and sojourners ; Symbolic ethnicity and patterns of ethnic identity assertion in American-born Serbs / Deborah Padgett -- Cultural summary, Serbian Americans / Andrei Simic and John Beierle --- An Old World tradition helps to preserve ethnic heritage and values among Serbian-Americans ; The Serbian family in America ; Winners and losers / Andrei Simić -- Changes and socio-religious conflict in an ethnic minority group / Djuro J. Vrga -- From the Adriatic to the Pacific / Vladimir Nicholas Vucinich.
Abstract This file is made up of ten documents almost entirely on Serbs in the United States and dealing with a wide range of ethnographic topics. Cultural assimilation and adaptation to American society, as well as the maintenance of Serbian ethnic identity are discussed to some extent in nearly all the works but are given special attention by Padgett, Simić, and Matejec. A study of the Serbian American community in the San Francisco Bay Area for the period of 1918-1980s, is found in Vucinich. This document discusses Serbian immigration to the area, the culture history of the region, socio-political organization, literary activities, and the effects of the European "wars of liberation" on the Serbian American population. Brkich's work describes the origin, development, activities, and significance of various Serbian organizations in the United States, with particular emphasis on the Serbian Mutual Aid Societies. The three publications in this file by Simić deal with the concept of aging in Serbian American society, the institution of slava or "baptismal glorification", and the Serbian family. The study by Vrga presents an analysis of the various factors promoting ethno-religious factionalism in the Serbian Orthodox Church in America in the early 1960s. Gakovich presents a bibliography of documents on Serbian life in the United States and Canada up to 1990. His work also contains a list of Serbian newspapers and periodicals which are active or no longer active in the field of publication for the period of 1869-1990. This document also contains a directory of Serbian churches and monasteries in the United States and Canada.
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General noteThis portion of eHRAF world cultures was first released in 1997.
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