ISBN:
9780814727300
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (273 p.)
Series Statement:
Nation of Newcomers
Parallel Title:
Print version Feeling Italian : The Art of Ethnicity in America
DDC:
305.851073
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
2006 American Book Award, presented by the Before Columbus Foundation. Southern Italian emigration to the United States peaked a full century ago-;descendents are now fourth and fifth generation, dispersed from their old industrial neighborhoods, professionalized, and fully integrated into the "melting pot." Surely the social historians are right: Italian Americans are fading into the twilight of their ethnicity. So, why is the American imagination enthralled by The Sopranos , and other portraits of Italian-ness?. Italian American identity, now a mix of history and fantasy, flesh-and-bone peop
Description / Table of Contents:
Ferraro_CVR_lg.pdf; 9780814727478_Ferraro_POD_stitched;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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