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Ralph J. Perk, the “New ethnicity”, and the making of urban ethnic republicans (2017)
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Merton, J. (2019). Ralph J. Perk, the “New ethnicity”, and the making of urban ethnic republicans. Journal of American Studies, 53(2), 449-477. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021875817001803

Historians seeking to explain the late twentieth century rightward shift of urban ethnic whites have tended to ignore the shifting meaning and content of white ethnic identity in this transition, and the utility of these changes to conservative polit... Read More about Ralph J. Perk, the “New ethnicity”, and the making of urban ethnic republicans.