The Varieties of Ethnic Experience - Kinship, Class, and Gender among California Italian-Americans

Micaela di Leonardo is a consultant with the National Academy of Sciences and has taught at George Washington University in Washington, D.C.

About the author

Micaela di Leonardo is a consultant with the National Academy of Sciences and has taught at George Washington University in Washington, D.C.

Summary

Taking a novel anthropological approach to the issue of white ethnicity in the United States, this book challenges the model of uniform ethnic family and community culture, and argues for a reconsideration of the meaning of class, kinship, and gender in America's past and present.

Product details

• Authors: Micaela Di Leonardo
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.07.1984
• EAN: 9780801492785
• ISBN: 978-0-8014-9278-5
• No. of pages: 262
• Dimensions: 227 mm x 150 mm x 24 mm
• Weight: 402 g
• Series: Cornell Studies in Political E; The Anthropology of Contemporary Issues; Anthropology of Contemporary I; Cornell Studies in Political E
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology