Feeling Italian : the Art of Ethnicity in America.
2006 American Book Award, presented by the Before Columbus Foundation. Southern Italian emigration to the United States peaked a full century ago--;descendents are now fourth and fifth generation, dispersed from their old industrial neighborhoods, professionalized, and fully integrated into the &quo...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
NYU Press,
2005.
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Colección: | Nation of newcomers.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | 2006 American Book Award, presented by the Before Columbus Foundation. Southern Italian emigration to the United States peaked a full century ago--;descendents are now fourth and fifth generation, dispersed from their old industrial neighborhoods, professionalized, and fully integrated into the "melting pot." Surely the social historians are right: Italian Americans are fading into the twilight of their ethnicity. So, why is the American imagination enthralled by The Sopranos, and other portraits of Italian-ness?. Italian American identity, now a mix of history and fantasy, flesh-and-bone peop. |
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Notas: | Ferraro_CVR_lg.pdf; 9780814727478_Ferraro_POD_stitched. |
Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (273 pages) |
ISBN: | 9780814728635 0814728634 |