The American Italians Their History And Culture
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Author | : Eric Martone |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 601 |
Release | : 2016-12-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1610699955 |
The entire Italian American experience—from America's earliest days through the present—is now available in a single volume. This wide-ranging work relates the entire saga of the Italian-American experience from immigration through assimilation to achievement. The book highlights the enormous contributions that Italian Americans—the fourth largest European ethnic group in the United States—have made to the professions, politics, academy, arts, and popular culture of America. Going beyond familiar names and stories, it also captures the essence of everyday life for Italian Americans as they established communities and interacted with other ethnic groups. In this single volume, readers will be able to explore why Italians came to America, where they settled, and how their distinctive identity was formed. A diverse array of entries that highlight the breadth of this experience, as well as the multitude of ways in which Italian Americans have influenced U.S. history and culture, are presented in five thematic sections. Featured primary documents range from a 1493 letter from Christopher Columbus announcing his discovery to excerpts from President Barack Obama's 2011 speech to the National Italian American Foundation. Readers will come away from this book with a broader understanding of and greater appreciation for Italian Americans' contributions to the United States.
Author | : Andrew F. Rolle |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Social Science |
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Author | : Luisa Del Giudice |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2009-11-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0230101399 |
This book introduces readers to a wide range of interpretations that take oral history and folklore as the premise with a focus on Italian and Italian American culture in disciplines such as history, ethnography, memoir, art, and music.
Author | : Andrew F. Rolle |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 130 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Italians in the United States |
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Author | : William Connell |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 915 |
Release | : 2017-09-27 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1135046700 |
The Routledge History of Italian Americans weaves a narrative of the trials and triumphs of one of the nation’s largest ethnic groups. This history, comprising original essays by leading scholars and critics, addresses themes that include the Columbian legacy, immigration, the labor movement, discrimination, anarchism, Fascism, World War II patriotism, assimilation, gender identity and popular culture. This landmark volume offers a clear and accessible overview of work in the growing academic field of Italian American Studies. Rich illustrations bring the story to life, drawing out the aspects of Italian American history and culture that make this ethnic group essential to the American experience.
Author | : Louis J. Gesualdi |
Publisher | : University Press of America |
Total Pages | : 107 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0761858601 |
The Italian/American Experience represents a meaningful attempt to inform Italian Americans about their group's varied experiences in America. This collection of eleven works offers readers an in-depth view of Italian American culture and heritage.
Author | : Simone Cinotto |
Publisher | : Fordham University Press |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2014-04-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0823256278 |
How do immigrants and their children forge their identities in a new land—and how does the ethnic culture they create thrive in the larger society? Making Italian America brings together new scholarship on the cultural history of consumption, immigration, and ethnic marketing to explore these questions by focusing on the case of an ethnic group whose material culture and lifestyles have been central to American life: Italian Americans. As embodied in fashion, film, food, popular music, sports, and many other representations and commodities, Italian American identities have profoundly fascinated, disturbed, and influenced American and global culture. Discussing in fresh ways topics as diverse as immigrant women’s fashion, critiques of consumerism in Italian immigrant radicalism, the Italian American influence in early rock ’n’ roll, ethnic tourism in Little Italy, and Guido subculture, Making Italian America recasts Italian immigrants and their children as active consumers who, since the turn of the twentieth century, have creatively managed to articulate relations of race, gender, and class and create distinctive lifestyles out of materials the marketplace offered to them. The success of these mostly working-class people in making their everyday culture meaningful to them as well as in shaping an ethnic identity that appealed to a wider public of shoppers and spectators looms large in the political history of consumption. Making Italian America appraises how immigrants and their children redesigned the market to suit their tastes and in the process made Italian American identities a lure for millions of consumers. Fourteen essays explore Italian American history in the light of consumer culture, across more than a century-long intense movement of people, goods, money, ideas, and images between Italy and the United States—a diasporic exchange that has transformed both nations. Simone Cinotto builds an imaginative analytical framework for understanding the ways in which ethnic and racial groups have shaped their collective identities and negotiated their place in the consumers’ emporium and marketplace. Grounded in the new scholarship in transnational U.S. history and the transfer of cultural patterns, Making Italian America illuminates the crucial role that consumption has had in shaping the ethnic culture and diasporic identities of Italians in America. It also illustrates vividly why and how those same identities—incorporated in commodities, commercial leisure, and popular representations—have become the object of desire for millions of American and global consumers.
Author | : Vincenza Scarpaci |
Publisher | : Pelican Publishing |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Immigrants |
ISBN | : 9781589802452 |
The influence of Italians in American cuisine, industry, sports, entertainment, and language is profound. Using photographs to illustrate more than a century of Italian experiences in the United States, the author provides an intimate and informed glimpse into the history of prejudice, hardship, celebration, and success faced by this rich Mediterranean people. A celebration of common men and women alongside notable Italian American celebrities and public figures, this book is a cultural photo album.--From publisher description.
Author | : Gabrielle Euvino |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 414 |
Release | : 2001-10-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780028642345 |
Offers an introduction to Italy's history and culture, from ancient Rome and the power of the Vatican to Mussolini's rise to power, Milan's fashion designers, and Italian cuisine.
Author | : Stefania Buccini |
Publisher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 2010-11-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0271041196 |