The State of French in Cleveland; The Influence of the Language, Culture and People
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Authors
McGinnis, Richard P.
Issue Date
1977
Type
Thesis
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en_US
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Abstract
The Cleveland Metropolitan Area has a population of over two
million people comprising at least sixty distinct and active ethnic
groups. For over a century, immigrants to the United States have
flocked to this area because of its enticing industrial and economic
prospects, and the growth and expansion undergone by Cleveland
in that time is due largely to the members of those sixty nationalities
who contributed their talents and hard labor to create new
opportunities and new lives for themselves. Cleveland has become
a mosaic of ethnic and racial groups and the vividness of cultural
life here is not only well-documented in such publications as
the 1974 Ethnic Directory, but evident in the newspapers, foreign
language radio programs and colorfully-named streets and stores of
certain Cleveland neighborhoods. Local news is seen on location
at Polish picnics, rib burn-offs, the German Oktoberfest and the
Ukrainian Debutante's Ball. But there is an ethnic group which is
of considerable interest to most viewers and yet conspicuously absent from local media coverage. They are the French and the speakers
of French in Cleveland.
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v, 44 p.
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