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  • Author: Waldron, FlorenceMae

Date: 2005 winter

Publication: Journal of American Ethnic History

Volume: 24

Language: en

Find in a Library: 366000054

Essay on women's labor in French Canadian immigrant communities in New England. Explores and qualifies the idea that, for women, migration could be equated with social and economic liberation. From the text: "The ways in which these women and girls…

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  • Author: Veltman, Calvin J.

Date: 1976 Autumn

Publication: American Review of Canadian Studies

Volume: 6

Language:

Find in a Library: 60621291

Analysis of the population, migration, and marriage patterns of Rawdon, Québec, as they relate to a growing percentage of predominantly French speakers in that region. From the author: "This paper is an empirical examination of the processes by…

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  • Author: Vanderbeck, Robert M.

Date: 2006

Publication: Annals of the Association of American Geographers

Volume: 96

Language:

Find in a Library: 441291955

From the author: "The U.S. state of Vermont is often portrayed as a place where 'race' is of little significance, yet notions of whiteness are central to how the state has been represented and represents itself. A critical analysis of historical and…

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  • Author: Tessier, Jules

Date: 1992

Publication: Francophonies d'Amérique

Language:

Find in a Library: 629273530

Un revue d'un texte historique sur le sujet des franco-américains. Le livre qui l'objet du revue a été écrit après ceux textes similaires de Roby et Weil.

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  • Author: Takai, Yukari

Date: 2010

Publication: The Canadian Historical Review

Volume: 91

Language: en

Find in a Library: 636583583

Review of two 2008 history texts on French America: "Franco-Amérique," by Dean Louder and Eric Waddell, and "Loyal but French: The Negotiation of Identity by French-Canadian Descendants in the United States," by Mark Paul Richard.

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  • Author: Takai, Yukari

Date: 2001 spring

Publication: Labour/Le Travail

Language: en

Find in a Library: 361810676

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An analysis of single French-Canadian women workers in Lowell, Massachusetts, Takai's piece attempts to show the contributions of this female population to their households and to the local economy at the beginning of the twentieth century.

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  • Author: Straussfogel, Debra

Date: 2002 Spring/Summer

Volume: 33

Language: en

Find in a Library: 60628349

An introduction to an issue of Québec Studies, the journal of the American Council for Québec Studies. This particular issue is a tribute to a scholar of Franco America, Robert G. LeBlanc, who died in 2001.

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  • Author: Stewart, Philip

Date: 1976 May

Publication: The French Review

Volume: 49

Language:

Find in a Library: 481390284

Un revue critique du texte "Une Amérique française" - une histoire de l'heritage française à l'Amérique du Nord de la période de la guerre d'Indépendance jusqu'au présent.

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  • Author: Sorrell, Richard S.

Date: 1982 Spring

Publication: MELUS

Volume: 9

Language:

Find in a Library: 482902632

In this short piece, Richard Sorrell casts early twentieth-century writers Jack Kerouac and Grace Metalious into the timeline of Franco-American ethnic integration. Sorrell attempts to illustrate the relationship between these writers' works and…

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  • Author: Skinazi, Karen E.H.

Date: 2009

Publication: Canadian Review of American Studies

Volume: 39

Language:

Find in a Library: 630694433

From Skinazi: "This paper will show that, in 'On the Road,' Kerouac reflects on what it is to be a Franco-American man—both American and not....Jack Kerouac believed that his French Canadian roots held the key to his knowledge, despite the…

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  • Author: Sheldon, Edward S.

Date: 1888

Publication: Transactions and Proceedings of the Modern Language Association of America

Volume: 3

Language: en; fr

Find in a Library: 1247683

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A short explanation of notes taken on the linguistic properties of one Waterville and another Cornville, Maine, Franco-American’s French language tendencies in the late nineteenth century. Historical measure of the MLA’s concern with…

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  • Author: Senécal, Joseph-André

Date: 2003 Winter/Spring

Publication: Vermont History: The Proceedings of the Vermont Historical Society

Volume: 71

Language:

Find in a Library: 1773222

Essay on the topic of ethnicity, ethnic whiteness, and the ethnic heritages of Vermont. An exploration in historiography that asks the question, "who are the 'real' Vermonters?" and considers how we could ever know the answer.

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  • Author: Senécal, Joseph-André

Date: 1992

Publication: Francophonies d'Amérique

Language: fr

Find in a Library: 629273530

Un bref essai sur le dèbut du titre "Franco-américain" aux Etats-Unis, et le développement là d'un nouveau culture américain comme mode de vie sur un modèle des réalités québécoises.

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  • Author: Schwartzwald, Robert

Date: 1987 spring

Publication: The Massachusetts Review

Volume: 28

Language: en

Find in a Library: 482941102

An essay on how photographer Ulrich Bourgeois captured the French Canadian ways of living that persisted and developed individually in early 20th-century Franco America. How Bourgeois, knowingly or not, worked to preserve a period of Franco American…

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  • Author: Sarkonak, Ralph

Date: 1983

Publication: Yale French Studies

Volume: 65

Language: en

Find in a Library: 482388574

A timeline of important political and cultural events in the history of French Canada and Québec up to 1982, introduced with a short reflection by the author.

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  • Author: Sarkonak, Ralph

Date: 1983

Publication: Yale French Studies

Language:

Find in a Library: 1770272

A preface to this issue of Yale French Studies that focuses upon the idea of "writing in Québec(ois)." Sarkonak traces the North American transition from français, to Canayen, to French Canadian, to québécois, and asks how language and…

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  • Author: Ryback-Soucy, Wendy
  • Author: Nagy, Naomi

Date: 2000-09-01

Publication: Journal of English Linguistics

Volume: 28

Language: en

Find in a Library: 41551927

From the authors: "This research focuses on... the French language's influence on Franco-American English in Manchester, a city in southern New Hampshire....The questions we explore include the following: Does the Franco-American community of…

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  • Author: Rosello, Mireille

Date: 2003

Publication: Yale French Studies

Language:

Find in a Library: 1770272

Professor Rosello writes on Francophone Studies "as a discipline...that can be imagined as a type of unhomeliness," characterized by a variety of conversant cultural or political forms. She argues what Francophone studies is, fluidly - cultural…

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  • Author: Robbins, Rhea CoÌ‚té

Date: 2002-spr/sum

Publication: Québec Studies

Volume: 33

Language: en

Find in a Library: 60628349

Some selections from Waterville, Maine, native Rhea Côté Robbins's memoir, "Wednesday's Child."

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  • Author: Richard, Mark Paul

Date: 2009-06

Publication: The New England Quarterly

Volume: 82

Language: en

Find in a Library: 362581627

From MIT Press Journals: "During the 1920s, the Ku Klux Klan expanded to the northeastern United States, where it confronted Franco-American Catholics throughout Maine. In response, this ethnic population modeled an appropriate resistance to the…

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  • Author: Richard, Mark Paul

Date: 1998

Publication: Histoire sociale/Social History

Volume: 61

Language: en

Find in a Library: 207204381

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From the author: "While many studies have focused on the migration, settlement, and community formation of French-Canadian immigrants in the United States, we know little about the history of their Franco-American descendants in the twentieth…

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  • Author: Ramirez, Bruno
  • Author: Lamarre, Jean

Date: 1985-11 (winter)

Publication: Revue d'histoire de l'Amérique française

Volume: 38

Language: fr

Find in a Library: 1764125

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Des notes de recherche sur l'immigrant "non seulement comme historique se heurtant aux exigences de la société d'accueil au moment de son insertion, mais aussi comme individu qui quitte un lieu précis en réponse a des besoins particuliers…

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  • Author: Ramirez, Bruno

Date: 1992 September

Publication: Journal of American History

Volume: 79

Language: en

Find in a Library: 483420594

Brief essay on the discipline of United States history in Canada, the influence of American perspectives on Canadian historiography of the US, and how attitudes toward cross-boundary historiography change over time. Ramirez takes a semi-biographical…

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  • Author: Ramirez, Bruno

Date: 1983-03 (spring)

Publication: Labor/Le Travail

Volume: 11

Language: en

Find in a Library: 317511047

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Introduction to an analysis of the French Canadian emigration/immigration period from 1900 to 1929 that, according to Ramirez, suffers from a lack of attention paid to it. Ramirez conducts his exploration through the lens of the New England cotton…

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  • Author: Pinette, Susan

Date: 2004

Publication: Francophonies d'Amérique

Volume: 17

Language:

Find in a Library: 365528519

Sur la relation entre l'écriture et l'ethnie franco-americaine de Jack Kerouac dans sa texte 'Satori in Paris.' De l'auteur: "L'Å“uvre de Kerouac crée un lien étroit entre l'ethnie et l'écriture. Ce lien ne se présente pas comme une…

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  • Author: Pinette, Susan

Date: 2002 Spring/Summer

Publication: Québec Studies

Volume: 33

Language:

Find in a Library: 60628349

Article praising the work of scholar Robert LeBlanc. Cites not only the importance of the focus on geography and the treatment of history in his research, but his precision and innovation in Franco-American Studies - his efforts to see ethnic culture…

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  • Author: Parsons, Margaret A.
  • Author: Askland, Kathleen D.

Date: 2007-11-00

Publication: Social Science and Medicine

Volume: 65

Language: en

Find in a Library: 176647844

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From Parsons and Askland: "Despite screening for prostate cancer, mortality in the United States remains substantial. In northern New England, we know little about either determinants of stage at diagnosis--an important predictor of survival--or…

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  • Author: Parsons, Margaret A.
  • Author: Askland, Kathleen D.

Date: 2007

Publication: The Journal of Rural Health

Volume: 23

Language: en

Find in a Library: 110320679

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From Parsons and Askland: "Despite screening for colorectal cancer, mortality in the United States remains substantial. In northern New England, little is known about predictors of stage at diagnosis, an important determinant of survival and…

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  • Author: Pacini, Peggy

Date: 2007 janvier

Publication: Glottopol: Revue de sociolinguistique en ligne

Volume: 9

Language:

Find in a Library: 643755913

Pris de Glottopol, la revue de sociolinguistique en ligne: "Présence invisible dans le champ des littératures francophone et ethnique américaines, la littérature franco-américaine de la Nouvelle-Angleterre, qu'elle s'exprime en…

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  • Author: Pacini, Peggy

Date: 2006 September

Publication: Comparative American Studies

Volume: 4

Language:

Find in a Library: 441582875

From the author: "An issue lying at the core of analyses of ethnic writing is the way that the question of identity often generates a dialogue between writing and being. American literature in languages other than English engages with this dialogue,…

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