Memories of belonging : descendants of Italian migrants to the United Sates, 1884-present /

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"Memories of Belonging is a three-generation oral-history study of the offspring of southern Italians who migrated to Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1913. Supplemented with the interviewees' private documents and working from U.S. and Italian archives, author Christa Wirth documents a centur...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wirth, Christa
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2015]
Colección:Studies in global migration history.
Temas:
Italian Americans > Massachusetts > Worcester > History.
Italian Americans > Massachusetts > Worcester > History > Sources.
Italian Americans > Massachusetts > Worcester > History > Interviews.
Italian Americans > Ethnic identity.
Italian Americans > History.
Américains d'origine italienne > Massachusetts > Worcester > Histoire.
Américains d'origine italienne > Massachusetts > Worcester > Histoire > Sources.
Américains d'origine italienne > Massachusetts > Worcester > Histoire > Entretiens.
Américains d'origine italienne > Identité ethnique.
Américains d'origine italienne > Histoire.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
Emigration and immigration.
Ethnic relations.
Italian Americans.
United States > Emigration and immigration > History.
Italy > Emigration and immigration > History.
Worcester (Mass.) > Ethnic relations.
Italy.
Massachusetts > Worcester.
United States.
History.
Interviews.
Sources.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Oral history methodology and networks of memory
  • Transnational migration networks : the paese in the rising global economy
  • Memories of everyday life I : hard work and family life
  • Memories of everyday life II : rural, urban, and suburban environments
  • Memories of Italianness : pride, prejudice, and consumption
  • Memories of Elvira and Giovanni Soloperto : in the shadows of memory and Dante's Divine Comedy
  • Memories of the American dream : migration, assimilation, and the homeland
  • Conclusion
  • Epilogue : Italian Americans as the poster children of the immigrant paradigm?

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