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Author : Lewis K. Parker
Publisher : PowerKids Press
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0823964604
Explores Italian immigration to the United States from the 1850s to the present, and looks at the contributions of Italian Americans to the culture of the United States.
Author : Laura La Bella
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781508181316
The Italian mass migration from Italy happened during a period of political and economic upheaval. Many Italian immigrants faced isolation, discrimination, and fear as they worked to learn English and assimilate to their new home. Despite such obstacles, they also created neighborhoods that continued their cultural traditions as they worked to adapt. Readers will learn why Italian immigrants left Italy, where they settled in America once they arrived, and how they became one of the most influential cultures on American society. The story of Italian immigration comes alive in this volume written by someone whose family endured it.
Author : Eric Martone
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 792 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9798216105596
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 : Scarpaci, Vincenza
Publisher : Pelican Publishing
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2024-07-03
Category : Immigrants
ISBN : 1455606839
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 : Ilaria Serra
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 9780838641989
Using original sources--such as newspaper articles, silent movies, letters, autobiographies, and interviews--Ilaria Serra depicts a large tapestry of images that accompanied mass Italian migration to the U.S. at the turn of the twentieth century. She chooses to translate the Italian concept of immaginario with the Latin imago that felicitously blends the double English translation of the word as "imagery" and "imaginary." Imago is a complex knot of collective representations of the immigrant subject, a mental production that finds concrete expression; impalpable, yet real. The "imagined immigrant" walks alongside the real one in flesh and rags.
Author : Eliot Lord,John J. D. Trenor,Samuel June Barrows
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1905
Category : Italians
ISBN : YALE:39002009586547
Author : American Italian Historical Association,Canadian Italian Historical Association
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UCSC:32106009963817
Author : Luciano J. Iorizzo,Salvatore Mondello
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015067695588
"(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 : Vincenza Scarpaci
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Social Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105037417453
A photographic history of Italian-American life. The Italian imprint on North America that began centuries ago with the voyages of Christopher Columbus, Amerigo Vespucci, and Giovanni da Verrazzano continues in every aspect of American life today. This book celebrates the contributions Italians made in the areas of agriculture, cuisine, industry, religion, sports, architecture, the arts, and politics, and how they preserved their culture while establishing their presence in America. Beginning with the first major wave of immigration in the 1870s, this book portrays Italian-American hardships and successes, along with the lifestyles, organizations, and businesses they created in communities throughout the country. Four hundred photographs from public and private collections portray this colorful ethnic group in settings from the crowded streets of Naples to crowded ships bound for America, to Californian farmers and family celebrations in New York.
Author : Laurie Buonanno,Michael Buonanno
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000349368
Remembering Italian America: Memory, Migration, Identity examines the life of Italians in the United States and the role of migration and collective memory in the history of the construction of Italian American identity. Employing the concept of communicative memory, the authors explain the processes that gave shape to Italian identity in America and the ways in which a symbolic identity became concretized in Italian American oral histories. The text explores the Italy migrants left behind, transatlantic networks, the welcome received by the Italian newcomers, the socioeconomic fabric of Italian America, and the singular worldview that grew out of the immigrant experience. In exploring the role of memory in the construction of Italian American identity, the book analyzes the commonalities in the lives of immigrants, allowing the Italian American experience to speak to the circumstances of newer immigrant communities and allowing these new immigrant communities to speak to the Italian migrant history. Looking at Italian American culture from a multidisciplinary perspective, this volume brings various theoretical perspectives to bear on "what, why, and how" questions concerning the Italian American experience. This book will be of interest to students of ethnic studies, immigration studies, and American/transnational studies, as well as American history. Winner of the 2022 Italian American Studies Association Book Award
Author : Michael Burgan,Robert Asher
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781438103594
The United States is truly a nation of immigrants, or as the poet Walt Whitman once said, a "nation of nations." Spanning the time from when the Europeans first came to the New World to the present day, the new "Immigration to the United States" set conveys the excitement of these stories to young people. Beginning with a brief preface to the set written by general editor Robert Asher that discusses some of the broad reasons why people came to the New World, both as explorers and settlers, each book's narrative highlights the themes, people, places, and events that were important to each immigrant group. In an engaging, informative manner, each volume describes what members of a particular group found when they arrived in the United States as well as where they settled. Historical information and background on the various communities present life as it was lived at the time they arrived. The books then trace the group's history and current status in the United States. Each volume includes photographs and illustrations such as passports and other artifacts of immigration, as well as quotes from original source materials. Box features highlight special topics or people, and each book is rounded out with a glossary, timeline, further reading list, and index.
Author : Jennifer Guglielmo,Salvatore Salerno
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136062421
This dazzling collection of original essays from some of the country's leading thinkers asks the rather intriguing question - Are Italians White? Each piece carefully explores how, when and why whiteness became important to Italian Americans, and the significance of gender, class and nation to racial identity.
Author : Humbert S. Nelli
Publisher : Oxford : Oxford University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Italian Americans
ISBN : 0195032004
Author : American Italian Historical Association. Conference
Publisher : American Italian Historical Association
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015014879954
Author : Vincent J. Cannato
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 501 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2009-06-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780060742737
For most of New York's early history, Ellis Island had been an obscure little island that barely held itself above high tide. Today the small island stands alongside Plymouth Rock in our nation's founding mythology as the place where many of our ancestors first touched American soil. Ellis Island's heyday—from 1892 to 1924—coincided with one of the greatest mass movements of individuals the world has ever seen, with some twelve million immigrants inspected at its gates. In American Passage, Vincent J. Cannato masterfully illuminates the story of Ellis Island from the days when it hosted pirate hangings witnessed by thousands of New Yorkers in the nineteenth century to the turn of the twentieth century when massive migrations sparked fierce debate and hopeful new immigrants often encountered corruption, harsh conditions, and political scheming. American Passage captures a time and a place unparalleled in American immigration and history, and articulates the dramatic and bittersweet accounts of the immigrants, officials, interpreters, and social reformers who all play an important role in Ellis Island's chronicle. Cannato traces the politics, prejudices, and ideologies that surrounded the great immigration debate, to the shift from immigration to detention of aliens during World War II and the Cold War, all the way to the rebirth of the island as a national monument. Long after Ellis Island ceased to be the nation's preeminent immigrant inspection station, the debates that once swirled around it are still relevant to Americans a century later. In this sweeping, often heart-wrenching epic, Cannato reveals that the history of Ellis Island is ultimately the story of what it means to be an American.