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1.

Italian Americans » Read Now
by Joseph Lopreato. 208 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Italian Americans ETHNIC GROUPS IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE...Smith College Random House New York Italian Americans JOSEPH LOPREATO The University...project --and each could...
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Authentic Ethnicities: The Interaction of Ideology, Gender Power, and Class in the Italian-American Experience » Read Now
by Patricia Boscia-Mule. 184 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

The two mainstream views of ethnicity--as an instinctive, integral part of the self, or as a free, strategic selection of ethnic traditions--are rejected as simplistic in this volume, which is based on an empirical study of a three-generation sample of Italian Americans. The author argues that...
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The two mainstream views of ethnicity--as an instinctive, integral part of the self, or as a free, strategic selection of ethnic traditions--are rejected as simplistic in this volume, which is based on an empirical study of a three-generation sample of Italian Americans. The author argues that people's relationship with their ethnic culture is always a strategic compromise, intimately linked to the personal power resources they derive from their gender and social status. Class and gender emerge as two fundamental variables in the way people identify with, manipulate, or are constrained by ethnic ideologies. The findings of this study challenge many commonplace understandings about Italian Americans and about ethnicity as a social phenomenon and means of identification.
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The Italian American Experience: An Encyclopedia » Read Now
by Frank J. Cavaioli, Salvatore J. LaGumina, Salvatore Primeggia, Joseph A. Varacalli. 740 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

The millions of Italians who have migrated to the United States over the last two centuries have played a crucial -- and at times little recognized -- role in the history of their adopted country. This encyclopedia, the first book of its kind, presents the totality of the Italian American...
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The millions of Italians who have migrated to the United States over the last two centuries have played a crucial -- and at times little recognized -- role in the history of their adopted country. This encyclopedia, the first book of its kind, presents the totality of the Italian American experience. The coverage includes such broad topics as the influence of Italian Americans on politics and society and their contributions to art and to the development of Catholicism in the United States.
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Good Americans: Italian and Jewish Immigrants during the First World War » Read Now
by Christopher M. Sterba. 271 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

Among the Americans who joined the ranks of the Doughboys fighting World War I were thousands of America's newest residents. Good Americans examines the contributions of Italian and Jewish immigrants, both on the homefront and overseas, in the Great War. While residing in strong, insular...
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Among the Americans who joined the ranks of the Doughboys fighting World War I were thousands of America's newest residents. Good Americans examines the contributions of Italian and Jewish immigrants, both on the homefront and overseas, in the Great War. While residing in strong, insular communities, both groups faced a barrage of demands to participate in a conflict that had been raging in their home countries for nearly three years. Italians and Jews "did their bit" in relief, recruitment, conservation, and war bond campaigns, while immigrants and second-generation ethnic soldiers fought on the Western front. Within a year of the Armistice, they found themselves redefined as foreigners and perceived as a major threat to American life, rather than remembered as participants in its defense. Wartime experiences, Christopher Sterba argues, served to deeply politicize first and second generation immigrants, greatly accelerating their transformation from relatively powerless newcomers to a major political force in the United States during the New Deal and beyond.
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Between Peasant and Urban Villager: Italian-Americans of New Jersey and New York, 1880-1980: The Structures of Counter-Discourse » Read Now
by Michael J. Eula. 306 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Peasant and Urban Villager Italian-Americans of New Jersey and New York...peasant and urban villager: Italian Americans of New Jersey and New York...bibliographical...
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Italian Signs, American Streets: The Evolution of Italian American Narrative » Read Now
by Fred L. Gardaphe. 250 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

The history of the Italian American intellectual is yet to written, but when it is, one of the stories it will tell is of the tension between what Antonio Gramsci has identified as the organic and the traditional intellectual.
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Claiming a Tradition: Italian American Women Writers » Read Now
by Mary Jo Bona. 260 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...literature-- Italian influences. 6. Italian Americans in literature. 7. Italy--In...to answer his own question: Italian Americans are harnessed by a heritage...reinforcing...
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Voices of Italian America: A History of Early Italian American Literature with a Critical Anthology » Read Now
by Ann Goldstein, Martino Marazzi. 343 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

An unprecedented exodus that brought millions of Italians to the New World, the Great Migration has been studied mainly in its historical, social, and ethnographical dimensions. This is a history of the rich and varied literary fabric to be found in the teeming Little Italies of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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Studies in Italian American Folklore » Read Now
by Luisa Del Giudice. 288 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...paperback : acid-free 1. Italian Americans--Social life and customs. I...the Ethnic Display Event by Italian Americans in Clinton, Indiana Sabina...A Kaleidoscopic Picture...
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Italian American Material Culture: A Directory of Collections, Sites, and Festivals in the United States and Canada » Read Now
by Margaret P. Hobbie. 173 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

This timely publication complements existing Italian American and Italian Canadian bibliographies and guides to collections by focusing on material culture and photographic collections, historic sites, and festivals. An introductory overview is followed by the identification of objects, photographic...
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This timely publication complements existing Italian American and Italian Canadian bibliographies and guides to collections by focusing on material culture and photographic collections, historic sites, and festivals. An introductory overview is followed by the identification of objects, photographic images, and oral histories held by museums and other repositories. Buildings, towns, and neighborhoods associated with Italian American history, as well as over 100 religious feasts and secular festivals are included. The volume concludes with a selective bibliography and name and subject indexes.
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Immigrants in the Lands of Promise: Italians in Buenos Aires and New York City, 1870-1914 » Read Now
by Samuel L. Baily. 316 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

Most studies of immigration to the New World have focused on the United States. Samuel L. Baily's eagerly awaited book broadens that perspective through a comparative analysis of Italian immigrants to Buenos Aires and New York City before World War I. It is one of the few works to trace Italians...
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Most studies of immigration to the New World have focused on the United States. Samuel L. Baily's eagerly awaited book broadens that perspective through a comparative analysis of Italian immigrants to Buenos Aires and New York City before World War I. It is one of the few works to trace Italians from their villages of origin to different destinations abroad.
Baily examines the adjustment of Italians in the two cities, comparing such factors as employment opportunities, skill levels, pace of migration, degree of prejudice, and development of the Italian community. Of the two destinations, Buenos Aires offered Italians more extensive opportunities, and those who elected to move there tended to have the appropriate education or training to succeed. These immigrants, who adjusted more rapidly than their North American counterparts, adopted a long-term strategy of investing savings in their New World home. In New York, in contrast, the immigrants found fewer skilled and white-collar jobs, more competition from,previous immigrant groups, greater discrimination, and a less supportive Italian enclave. As a result, rather than put down roots, many sought to earn money as rapidly as possible and send their earnings back to family in Italy.
Baily views the migration process as a global phenomenon. Building on his richly documented case studies, the author briefly examines Italian communities in San Francisco, Toronto, and Sao Paulo. He establishes a continuum of immigrant adjustment in urban settings, creating a landmark study in both immigration and comparative history.
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The Italian in America (1905) » Read Now
by Eliot Lord, John J. D. Trenor, Samuel J. Barrows. 274 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...I have heard Americans, otherwise apparently...rational, shout at Italians as if bellowing...mainly Irish-Americans, but transferred to the Italians through the...recent...
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We Who Built America: The Saga of the Immigrant (1939) (Chap. 16 "The Italians") » Read Now
by Carl Wittke. 552 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...stock since 1900; whereas Italian stock increased from 727,844...pressure to become "100 percent Americans," are feverishly at work to...college, and in honor of a great...
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Ethnicity and Sport in North American History and Culture (Chap. 6 "The Italian-American Sporting Experience") » Read Now
by George Eisen, David K. Wiggins. 249 pgs.

Collections: Entire Library

The editors use the unique lens of the history of sports to examine ethnic experiences in North America since 1840. Comprised of 12 original essays and an Introduction, it chronicles sport as a social institution through which various ethnic and racial groups attempted to find the way to social and...
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The editors use the unique lens of the history of sports to examine ethnic experiences in North America since 1840. Comprised of 12 original essays and an Introduction, it chronicles sport as a social institution through which various ethnic and racial groups attempted to find the way to social and psychological acceptance and cultural integration. Included are chapters on Native Americans, Irish-Americans, German-Americans, Canadians, African-Americans, Italian-Americans, Hispanics, and several more, showing how their sports participation also provided these communities with some measure of social mobility, self-esteem, and a shared pride.
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Ethnic America: A History (Chap. 5 "The Italians") » Read Now
by Thomas Sowell. 358 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Chapter 5: The Italians 100 III Americans from Asia...Irish American or Italian American is more...old, and Jewish Americans are over forty...104 Attempts of Italian and...
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The Hyphenated American: The Hidden Injuries of Culture (Chap. 3 "Italian-American Culture") » Read Now
by John C. Papajohn. 148 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

Papajohn provides a collection of detailed case histories used to explore the effect of culture change on the psychological functioning of white Americans who derive from different ethnic backgrounds. Both individual and marital conflicts are analyzed to highlight the impact of one's cultural...
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Papajohn provides a collection of detailed case histories used to explore the effect of culture change on the psychological functioning of white Americans who derive from different ethnic backgrounds. Both individual and marital conflicts are analyzed to highlight the impact of one's cultural heritage on adjustments to mainstream American society. This book is designed to provide therapists with important insights in treating "hyphenated Americans," who are the grandchildren (third generation) of the original immigrants. It will also be of interest to laypersons since it is written in a clear and jargonless language.
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