The Italian Americans

Author : Maria Laurino
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-12-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393241297

Get Book

The Italian-americans by Maria Laurino Pdf

This richly researched, beautifully illustrated volume illuminates an important, overlooked part of American history. From extensive archival materials and interviews with well-known Italian Americans, Maria Laurino strips away stereotypes and nostalgia to tell the complicated, centuries-long story of the true Italian-American experience. Looking beyond the familiar Little Italys and stereotypes fostered by The Godfather and The Sopranos, Laurino reveals surprising, fascinating lives: Italian-Americans working on sugar-cane plantations in Louisiana to those who were lynched in New Orleans; the banker who helped rebuild San Francisco after the great earthquake; families interned as “enemy aliens” in World War II. From anarchist radicals to “Rosie the Riveter” to Nancy Pelosi, Andrew Cuomo, and Bill de Blasio; from traditional artisans to rebel songsters like Frank Sinatra, Dion, Madonna, and Lady Gaga, this book is both exploration and celebration of the rich legacy of Italian-American life. Readers can discover the history chronologically, chapter by chapter, or serendipitously by exploring the trove of supplemental materials. These include interviews, newspaper clippings, period documents, and photographs that bring the history to life.

Author : Eric Martone
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 792 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9798216105596

Get Book

Italian Americans by Eric Martone Pdf

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 : Luciano J. Iorizzo,Salvatore Mondello
Publisher : Boston : Twayne
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Italian Americans
ISBN : 0805784160

Get Book

The Italian Americans by Luciano J. Iorizzo,Salvatore Mondello Pdf

Author : William Connell,Stanislao Pugliese
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 915 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135046705

Get Book

The Routledge History of Italian Americans by William Connell,Stanislao Pugliese Pdf

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 : Anthony V. Riccio
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2009-01-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780791481707

Get Book

Italian American Experience in New Haven, The by Anthony V. Riccio Pdf

Using interviews and photographs, Anthony Riccio provides a vital supplement to our understanding of the Italian immigrant experience in the United States. In conversations around kitchen tables and in social clubs, members of New Haven's Italian American community evoke the rhythms of the streets and the pulse of life in the old ethnic neighborhoods. They describe the events that shaped the twentieth century—the Spanish Flu pandemic, the Great Depression, and World War II—along with the private histories of immigrant women who toiled under terrible working conditions in New Haven's shirt factories, who sacrificed dreams of education and careers for the economic well-being of their families. This is a compelling social, cultural, and political history of a vibrant immigrant community.

Author : Allon Schoener
Publisher : Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Italian Americans
ISBN : UOM:39015046390905

Get Book

The Italian Americans by Allon Schoener Pdf

Author : Dominic Pulera
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Italian Americans
ISBN : 061526851X

Get Book

Green, White, and Red by Dominic Pulera Pdf

Author : Simone Cinotto
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780252095016

Get Book

The Italian American Table by Simone Cinotto Pdf

Best Food Book of 2014 by The Atlantic Looking at the historic Italian American community of East Harlem in the 1920s and 30s, Simone Cinotto recreates the bustling world of Italian life in New York City and demonstrates how food was at the center of the lives of immigrants and their children. From generational conflicts resolved around the family table to a vibrant food-based economy of ethnic producers, importers, and restaurateurs, food was essential to the creation of an Italian American identity. Italian American foods offered not only sustenance but also powerful narratives of community and difference, tradition and innovation as immigrants made their way through a city divided by class conflict, ethnic hostility, and racialized inequalities. Drawing on a vast array of resources including fascinating, rarely explored primary documents and fresh approaches in the study of consumer culture, Cinotto argues that Italian immigrants created a distinctive culture of food as a symbolic response to the needs of immigrant life, from the struggle for personal and group identity to the pursuit of social and economic power. Adding a transnational dimension to the study of Italian American foodways, Cinotto recasts Italian American food culture as an American "invention" resonant with traces of tradition.

Author : Louis J. Gesualdi
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 107 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9780761858607

Get Book

The Italian/American Experience by Louis J. Gesualdi Pdf

The Italian/American Experience: A Collection of Writings represents a meaningful attempt to inform Italian Americans about their group's varied experiences in America. This book, unlike many works on the Italian American experience, contains writings that explain why popular negative notions of Italian/American life are inaccurate. The Italian/American Experience lists a number of organizations and journals specializing in Italian American culture and provides brief descriptions of many leading researchers in the field of Italian American studies. This unique text also contains an annotated bibliography of key books that deal with the lives of Italians and Italian Americans. This collection of eleven works offers readers an in-depth view of Italian American culture and heritage.

Author : Luciano J. Iorizzo,Salvatore Mondello
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015067695588

Get Book

The Italian Americans by Luciano J. Iorizzo,Salvatore Mondello Pdf

"(This is) is written with verve and conviction. It is the first attempt by professional historians to tell the story of Italian Americans from the 17th century to the present." --Arthur Mann, professor of American History, University of Chicago.

Author : Maria Laurino
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2001-06-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780393343519

Get Book

Were You Always an Italian?: Ancestors and Other Icons of Italian America by Maria Laurino Pdf

"One of the best books about the immigrant experience in America....unique and gracefully written."—San Francisco Chronicle Maria Laurino sifts through the stereotypes bedeviling Italian Americans to deliver a penetrating and hilarious examination of third-generation ethnic identity. With "intelligence and honesty" (Arizona Republic), she writes about guidos, bimbettes, and mammoni (mama's boys in Italy); examines the clashing aesthetics of Giorgio Armani and Gianni Versace; and unravels the etymology of southern Italian dialect words like gavone and bubidabetz. According to Frances Mayes, she navigates the conflicting forces of ethnicity "with humor and wisdom."

Author : Pellegrino D'Acierno
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 848 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Art
ISBN : 0815303807

Get Book

The Italian American Heritage by Pellegrino D'Acierno Pdf

A collection of 27 original essays, some formal and some personal, document the history of Italian American culture for general readers and for teachers of multicultural studies. They investigate Italian-American identity and contributions to American culture through accounts of everyday life, fiction, films, poetry, music, customs, traditions, social mores, religion, and other features. Among the contributors are an anthropologist, a playwright, several poets and novelists, a singer, an opera critic, and several literary critics and cultural historians. The chronology begins of course with 1492; the lexicon does not indicate pronunciation. Double spaced. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Melissa E. Marinaro
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Immigrants
ISBN : 0936340304

Get Book

Highlights from the Italian American Collection by Melissa E. Marinaro Pdf

"Highlights from the Italian American Collection: Western Pennsylvania Stories is a fascinating visual history presented through the Heinz History Center's collection of artifacts, archives, and oral histories. The collection is one of the most comprehensive of its kind in the United States and documents the pivotal role Italian Americans played in shaping the region's political, economic, religious, and cultural landscapes. This important collection gives voice to the immigrant experience in America"--

Author : Richard Gambino
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Social Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105036763774

Get Book

Blood of My Blood by Richard Gambino Pdf

Author : Wayne Moquin,Charles Van Doren
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Italian Americans
ISBN : UOM:39015046388909

Get Book

A Documentary History of the Italian Americans by Wayne Moquin,Charles Van Doren Pdf