Una Storia Segreta - The Secret History of Italian American Evacuation and Internment

The essays in this volume bring together the voices of the Italian American community and experts in the field, including personal stories by survivors and their children, letters from internment camps, news clips, photographs, and cartoons.

About the author

Lawrence DiStasi is an editor, writer, and instructor at UC Berkeley Extension's Fall Freshman Program and has been the project director of the traveling exhibit Una Storia Segreta: When Italian Americans Were 'Enemy Aliens', since 1994. He is author of Mal Occhio: The Underside of Vision (North Point Press, 1981) and Dream Streets: The Big Book of Italian American Culture (Harper & Row, 1989). He is president of the American Italian Historical Association's Western Regional Chapter.

Summary

Una Storia Segreta brings a new perspective to the history of wartime violations of civilian populations. The essays in this volume bring together the voices of the Italian American community and experts in the field, including personal stories by survivors and their children, letters from internment camps, news clips, photographs, and cartoons.

Product details

• Authors: Lawrence DiStasi
• Assisted by: Lawrence DiStasi (Editor), Sandra M. Gilbert (Foreword)
• Publisher: Heyday books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2001
• EAN: 9781890771409
• ISBN: 978-1-890771-40-9
• No. of pages: 250
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 230 mm x 23 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; USA, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies, 20th Century, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, United States of America, USA, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, History of the Americas, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Biracial & Multiracial Studies