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The Names of John Gergen: Immigrant Identities in Early Twentieth-Century St. Louis
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Rescued from the dumpster of a boarded-up house, the yellowing scraps of a young migrant’s schoolwork provided Benjamin Moore with the jumping-off point for this study of migration, memory, and identity. Centering on the compelling story of its eponymous subject, The Names of John Gergen examines the converging governmental and institutional forces that affected the lives of migrants in the industrial neighborhoods of South St. Louis in the early twentieth century. These migrants were Banat Swabians from Torontál County in southern Hungary—they were Catholic, agrarian, and ethnically German.
ISBN
9780826222275
Publication Date
2021
Publisher
University of Missouri Press
City
Columbia, MO
Keywords
Banat Swabian, South St. Louis, immigrants, migrants
Department
History, Philosophy, and Religion
Recommended Citation
Moore, Benjamin, "The Names of John Gergen: Immigrant Identities in Early Twentieth-Century St. Louis" (2021). Faculty Bookshelf. 31.
https://griffinshare.fontbonne.edu/faculty-books/31
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