AMERICANIZATION

BY

EMORY S. BOGARDUS, PH.D.

PROFESSOR AND HEAD OF DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
AUTHOR OF Introduction to Sociology AND

Essentials of Social Psychology

1919
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PRESS

LOS ANGELES

CONTENTS

PART ONE

Americanization and American Traits

CHAPTER

1. The Scope of Americanization

11

II. American Traits: Liberty and Self-Reliance

23

III. American Traits: Union and Co-operation

33

IV. American Traits: Democracy and the Square Deal 41

V. American Traits: Internationalism and Brotherhood 59

VI. The Racial History of Americanism

67

PART TWO

The Native-Born and American Traits

VII. The Average American

77

VIII. The American Indian

94

IX. The Negro

103

X. The Appalachian Mountaineer

117

PART THREE

The Foreign-Born and American Traits

XI. The North European Immigrant

XII. The South European Immigrant

XIII. The Slavic Immigrant

XIV. The Hebrew Immigrant

XV. The Asiatic Immigrant

XVI. The Mexican Immigrant

PART FOUR

Methods of Americanization

XVII. Americanization: The Native-Born

XVIII. Americanization: The Foreign-Born

XIX. Americanization: The Foreign-Born (cont.)

PREFACE

To Help Win the War for Democracy is the main purpose of this book. The overthrowing of the Prussian autocracy was one vital phase of the struggle for democratic principles. The perfecting of our American democracy is another important aspect of this world-wide problem. That this volume will assist the cause of democracy, in some small way, is the hope of the author.

The Federal government has directed our attention officially to the subject of Americanization. Through the recently established Division of Americanization, the entire country is being organized for that work. To aid in this splendid undertaking is the second aim of the writer.

There are many private and semi-public organizations which are carrying on unrelated plans of assimilation. In the activities of some of these organizations, Americanization is receiving a narrowminded and autocratic expression. It will fail wherever it denies the validity of comprehensive and fundamental principles. We dare not base it chiefly on compulsion. We must make it attractive and magnetic and just. To help meet this need is the third leading purpose which has caused the writing of this treatise.

This volume is based on the experiences of living in Chicago at Northwestern University Settlement,