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The Routledge History of Italian Americans is a new multi-authored history of one of the largest ethnic groups in America, bringing together the best and brightest scholars and critics to create a narrative of the trials and triumphs of Italians in America.
List of contents
Introduction:
A New History for a New Millennium
William J. Connell Part I - Explorations and Foundations1) Italians in the Early Atlantic World
William J. Connell 2) From the Pilgrim Fathers to the Founding Fathers: Italy and America
Edoardo Tortarolo 3) When They Were Few: Italians in America, 1800-1850
John Paul Russo 4) America's Garibaldi: The United States and Italian Unification
Don H. Doyle 5) Dante Alighieri and the
Divine Comedy in Nineteenth-Century America
Dennis LooneyPart II - The Great Migration and Creating Little Italies6) Why Italians Left Italy: The Physics and Politics of Migration, 1870-1920
Maddalena Tirabassi 7) The Silence of the Atlantians: Contact, Conflict, Consolidation (1880-1913)
Peter Carravetta 8) The Little Italies of the Early 1900s: From the Reports of Amy Bernardy
Maddalena Tirabassi 9) Interpreting Little Italies: Ethnicity as an Accident of Geography
Maria Susanna Garroni 10) Culture and Identity on the Table: Italian American Food as Social History
Simone Cinotto
11) Italian Americans and Their Religious Experience
Richard N. Juliani 12) Italian Americans and Race During the Era of Mass Immigration
Peter G. Vellon
13) Discrimination, Prejudice and Italian American History
Salvatore J. LaGumina 14) The Languages of Italian Americans
Nancy C. Carnevale 15) Italian American Book Publishing and Book Selling
James J. Periconi 16) From Margins to Vanguard to Mainstream: Italian Americans and the Labor Movement
Marcella Bencivenni 17) The Sacco and Vanzetti Case and the Psychology of Political Violence
Michael Topp 18) A Diary in America and a Death in Rome
Francesco DurantePart III - Becoming American and Contesting America19) The Bumpy Road Toward Political Incorporation, 1920-1984
Stefano Luconi 20) Italian Emigration, Remittances, and the Rise of Made-in-Italy
Mark I. Choate 21) Fascism and Anti-Fascism in Italian America
Stanislao G. Pugliese 22) World War II Changed Everything
Dominic Candeloro 23) Mothers and Daughters in Italian American Narratives
Mary Jo Bona 24) The Italian American Family and Transnational Circuits
JoAnne Ruvoli 25) Groovin': A Riff on Italian Americans in Popular Music and Jazz
John Gennari26) Italian Americans and the Cinema
Giuliana Muscio 27) Italian Americans and Television
Anthony Julian Tamburri 28) Italian Americans in Sport
Lawrence Baldassaro 29) Organized Crime and Italian Americans
Antonio NicasoPart IV - Postwar to Post-Ethnic?30) Italian Americans and Assimilation
Richard Alba 31) Italian Americans in the Suburbs: Transplanting Ethnicity to the Crabgrass Frontier
Donald Tricarico 32) "What Ever Happened to Little Italy?"
Jerome Krase 33) Italian American Femininities
Ilaria Serra34) Italian American Masculinities
Fred Gardaphé 35)
Fuori per sempre: The Coming Out of Gay and Lesbian Italian Americans
George De Stefano 36) Immigration from Italy since the 1990s
Teresa Fiore 37) Contemporary Italian American Identities
Rosemary Serra38) The Orphanage: Encounters in Transnational Space
Robert Viscusi Conclusion:
The Future of Our Past
Stanislao G. Pugliese
About the author
William J. Connell is Professor and LaMotta Chair of History at Seton Hall University.
Stanislao G. Pugliese is Professor of modern European history and the Queensboro UNICO Distinguished Professor of Italian and Italian American Studies at Hofstra University.
Summary
The Routledge History of Italian Americans is a new multi-authored history of one of the largest ethnic groups in America, bringing together the best and brightest scholars and critics to create a narrative of the trials and triumphs of Italians in America.
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"A marvelous history of people fundamental to the American mosaic, a history that is thoughtful, honest, passionate, and right for our times. The Routledge History of Italian Americans traces Italian immigrants from a newly unified nation that could not hold its people to thoroughly integrated Americans at all levels of society. It’s essential for understanding Americans in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries."
Nell Irvin Painter, Edwards Professor of American History, Emerita, at Princeton University and author of The History of White People
"Wide-ranging, with chapters that cover 500 years of history while addressing everything from politics, economy, culture, race, class, and gender to work, radicalism, religion, residence and everyday life, The Routledge History of Italian Americans belongs on the shelf of every scholar of Italian America and in every library serving Italian-Americans. Specialists will find enough of the latest research, written by prominent scholars, to satisfy their very specific needs while newcomers to the topic can gain from the contributors’ obvious awareness of the needs of general readers in search of ‘the big picture.’ "
Donna Gabaccia, University of Toronto and author of Italy's Many Diasporas
"The Routledge History of ltalianAmericans is an important guideto Italian American life, identity, andculture fora newmillennium."
Maddalena Marinari, Gustavus Adolphus College
