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Hyphenated American

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1.An American who is referred to by a hyphenated term with the first word indicating an origin in a foreign country, and the second term being "American", as Irish-American, Italian-American, African-American, Asian-American.


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German leadership lost its message and audience as hyphenated Americans were no longer welcome in the nation of hundred-percent loyalty: "What began as a suspicion of German Philadelphians as potential spies and saboteurs," Kazal commented, "mushroomed into an assault on any German ethnic expression,"--and this assault spread from east coast to west, from city to town and village throughout the nation.
Becoming Old Stock: The Paradox of German American Identity by Amato, Joseph A. / Journal of Social History
According to Dunleavy, hyphenated Americans acted in similar ways when they came to the United States.
Arab Americans in a political year by Hanley, Delinda / Washington Report on Middle East Affairs
5 million by WW I--only in the past fifteen or twenty years have Italian American women found the courage and encouragement in significant numbers to give voice to their hyphenated American experiences.
Persephone goes home: Italian American women in Italy by Goeller, Alison D. / MELUS
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