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Program

Research Programs: Residential College Teacher Fellowships, 1976-1981

Period of Performance

9/1/1978 - 5/31/1979

Funding Totals

$15,000.00 (approved)
$15,000.00 (awarded)

French Canadians in the United State: An Anthropological Approach

FAIN: FR-10324-78

Richard S. Sorrell
Brookdale Community College (Lincroft, NJ 07738-1599)

This study focuses upon the interrelationship between survivance (the French Canadian term for ethnic and national survival) and religion, the debate among French Canadian immigrants and their descendants (Franco-Americans) as to whether militance or moderation was the correcl way to maintain survivance, and consequent struggles between militant Franco-Americans and the Irish hierarchy of the Catholic Church. This study will be the basis for a larger project, "French Canadians in New England: Religion and Militant Survivance, 1870-1930."