Making Italian America : Consumer Culture and the Production of Ethnic Identities /

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How do immigrants and their children forge their identities in a new land-and how does the ethnic culture they create thrive in the larger society? Making Italian America brings together new scholarship on the cultural history of consumption, immigration, and ethnic marketing to explore these questi...

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Otros Autores: Battisti, Danielle (Contribuidor), Bencivenni, Marcella (Contribuidor), Bertellini, Giorgio (Contribuidor), Caratozzolo, Vittoria Caterina (Contribuidor), Cinotto, Simone (Contribuidor, Editor ), Gennari, John (Contribuidor), Kosta, Ervin (Contribuidor), Luconi, Stefano (Contribuidor), Padurano, Dominique (Contribuidor), Parasecoli, Fabio (Contribuidor), Ritter, Courtney (Contribuidor), Tirabassi, Maddalena (Contribuidor), Tricarico, Donald (Contribuidor), Zanoni, Elizabeth (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2014]
Colección:Critical Studies in Italian America
Temas:
HISTORY / Social History.
American.
Consumer Culture.
Ethnicity.
Immigrant/ Immigration.
Italian.
Sociology.
consumerism.
history.
identity.
marketing.
material culture.
popular culture.
shopping.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • introduction. All Things Italian
  • part one. Immigrants Encounter and Remake U.S. Consumer Society The Shaping of Italian American Identities Through Commodities and Commercial Leisure, 1900- 1930
  • 1. Visibly Fashionable.
  • 2. Making Space for Domesticity
  • 3. In Italy Everyone Enjoys It-Why Not in America?
  • 4. Sovereign Consumption
  • 5. Consuming La Bella Figura
  • 6. Radical Visions and Consumption
  • part two. 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
  • 10. Consuming Italian Americans
  • part three. Consuming Italian American Identities in the Multicultural Age, 1980 to the Present
  • 11. The Double Life of the Italian Suit
  • 12. Sideline Shtick
  • 13. The Immigrant Enclave as Theme Park
  • 14. We Are Family
  • Notes
  • Contributors
  • Index

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