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ABSTRACT
After examining the concept of festivals as ethnic practice and the scholarship on ethnic and heritage festivals among various ethnic groups in the US, including Cajuns and Czech, Scottish and German Americans, this paper utilizes a survey of Polish American festival organizers as well as public descriptions of Polish American festivals to determine why festival activists organize their events, what image of Polish American identity they try to project through their festivals, and how they account for issues of authenticity as Polish American neighborhoods continue to decline and the community becomes more diffused.
Notes on contributor
David J. Jackson is a professor of political science at Bowling Green State University. His research interests include US political behavior and the interactive relationship between politics and culture. He is the author of Entertainment and Politics: The Influence of Pop Culture on Young Adult Political Socialization, a second and revised edition of which was published in 2009. He has published articles in such journals as Political Research Quarterly, American Politics Research, Polish American Studies, American Review of Canadian Studies, and the International Journal of Press/Politics. In 2007–2008 he was a Fulbright Fellow at the University of Łódź. His book Classrooms and Barrooms: An American in Poland, was published in 2008.
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