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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. According to Dunleavy, hyphenated Americans acted in similar ways when they came to the United States. 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. |
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