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    "title": "Morsels in the Melting Pot",
    "subtitle": "the Persistence of Dutch Immigrant Communities in North America",
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    "description": "The Dutch presence in North America has been best preserved in the two largest denominations, the Reformed Church and Christian Reformed Church. But <br />outside these denominations seven more developed over time, of which some are hardly visible for outsiders, and also non-protestant groups tried to stay <br />together. The eighteen essays in this volume describe the ways in which small groups of Dutch immigrants made efforts to maintain their identities in the United <br />States and Canada between 1800 and 2000. Until now, many of those groups had never been objects of academic research. In the essays presented here, the <br />Dutch, American, and Canadian authors zoom in on the connections of these groups with the Netherlands, with other Dutch-Americans, and other ethnic <br />groups. All of them faced the issues of language and education. An exclusivist worldview, strong leadership, local organizations and national networks helped <br />best to preserve identities, but did not preclude the influence of processes of assimilation and modernization. Among the groups covered here are Roman <br />Catholics, Pentecostals, and Social Democrats, while the Protestants spread out in the True Reformed Dutch Church, the Netherlands Reformed <br />Congregations, the Free Reformed Churches, the Protestant Reformed Churches, and the Canadian Reformed Churches. Additional presentations analyze the <br />social capital structure of immigrant groups, family life, labor unions, and business ventures. All these factors contributed to the longevity of these morsels in the <br />melting pot of North America.",
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