ISBN:
9780823256235
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (331 pages)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Critical Studies in Italian American
Series Statement:
Critical Studies in Italian America Ser
Parallel Title:
Print version Making Italian America : consumer culture and the production of ethnic identities
DDC:
305.851073
Keywords:
Italian Americans Ethnic identity
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Italian Americans -- Ethnic identity
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Italian Americans ; Ethnic identity
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Addressing topics in the history and sociology of fashion, film, food, popular music, sports, masculinity, youth subcultures, and the politics of consumption, Making Italian America explores consumer culture in Italian American history and life, the role of consumption in the production of ethnic identities, and the commodification of cultural difference.
Abstract:
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. All Things Italian: Italian American Consumers, the Transnational Formation of Taste, and the Commodification of Difference -- Part I: Immigrants Encounter and Remake U.S. Consumer Society: The Shaping of Italian American Identities Through Commodities and Commercial Leisure, 1900- 1930 -- 1. Visibly Fashionable: The Changing Role of Clothes in the Everyday Life of Italian American Immigrant Women -- 2. Making Space for Domesticity: Household Goods in Working-Class Italian American Homes, 1900-1940 -- 3. In Italy Everyone Enjoys It-Why Not in America? Italian Americans and Consumption in Transnational Perspective During the Early Twentieth Century -- 4. Sovereign Consumption: Italian Americans' Transnational Film Culture in 1920s New York City -- 5. Consuming La Bella Figura: Charles Atlas and American Masculinity, 1910-1940 -- 6. Radical Visions and Consumption: Culture and Leisure among the Early Twentieth-Century Italian American Left -- Part II: The Politics and Style of Italian American Consumerism, 1930-1980 -- 7. Italian Americans, the New Deal State, and the Making of Citizen Consumers -- 8. Italian Americans, Consumerism, and the Cold War in Transnational Perspective -- 9. Italian Doo-Wop: Sense of Place, Politics of Style, and Racial Crossovers in Postwar New York City -- 10. Consuming Italian Americans: Invoking Ethnicity in the Buying and Selling of Guido -- Part III: Consuming Italian American Identities in the Multicultural Age, 1980 to the Present -- 11. The Double Life of the Italian Suit: Italian Americans and the "Made in Italy" Label -- 12. Sideline Shtick: The Italian American Basketball Coach and Consumable Images of Racial and Ethnic Masculinity -- 13. The Immigrant Enclave as Theme Park: Culture, Capital, and Urban Change in New York's Little Italies.
Description / Table of Contents:
""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction. All Things Italian: Italian American Consumers, the Transnational Formation of Taste, and the Commodification of Difference""; ""Part I: Immigrants Encounter and Remake U.S. Consumer Society: The Shaping of Italian American Identities Through Commodities and Commercial Leisure, 1900� 1930""; ""1. Visibly Fashionable: The Changing Role of Clothes in the Everyday Life of Italian American Immigrant Women""; ""2. Making Space for Domesticity: Household Goods in Working-Class Italian American Homes, 1900�1940""
Description / Table of Contents:
""3. In Italy Everyone Enjoys It�Why Not in America? Italian Americans and Consumption in Transnational Perspective During the Early Twentieth Century""""4. Sovereign Consumption: Italian Americans� Transnational Film Culture in 1920s New York City""; ""5. Consuming La Bella Figura: Charles Atlas and American Masculinity, 1910�1940""; ""6. Radical Visions and Consumption: Culture and Leisure among the Early Twentieth-Century Italian American Left""; ""Part II: The Politics and Style of Italian American Consumerism, 1930�1980""
Description / Table of Contents:
""7. Italian Americans, the New Deal State, and the Making of Citizen Consumers""""8. Italian Americans, Consumerism, and the Cold War in Transnational Perspective""; ""9. Italian Doo-Wop: Sense of Place, Politics of Style, and Racial Crossovers in Postwar New York City""; ""10. Consuming Italian Americans: Invoking Ethnicity in the Buying and Selling of Guido""; ""Part III: Consuming Italian American Identities in the Multicultural Age, 1980 to the Present""; ""11. The Double Life of the Italian Suit: Italian Americans and the “Made in Italy� Label""
Description / Table of Contents:
""12. Sideline Shtick: The Italian American Basketball Coach and Consumable Images of Racial and Ethnic Masculinity""""13. The Immigrant Enclave as Theme Park: Culture, Capital, and Urban Change in New York�s Little Italies""; ""14. We Are Family: Ethnic Food Marketing and the Consumption of Authenticity in Italian-Themed Chain Restaurants""; ""Notes""; ""List of Contributors""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Z""
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Includes index
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