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The Leamington Italian community : ethnicity and identity in Canada /

"The Leamington Italian Community intertwines personal and family stories with both empirical and intuitive writing to offer new historical insights into the complex social, economic, and psychological causes and effects of the migration phenomenon. Walter Temelini meticulously reconstructs the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Temelini, Walter, 1939- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : Published for the Leamington Roma Club by McGill-Queen's University Press, 2019.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front Matter
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: The ȜOral History Method ȝ: Advantages and Disadvantages
  • A Unique Italian Canadian Community
  • Clandestine Emigration and the South
  • The Second Expedition: The Ordeal of the First Molisani
  • 1925-1945: The Slow Growth of Solid Roots
  • 1925-1945: L'unione fa la forza (Strength in Unity)
  • The War Years: "Good Canadians" and "Bad Italians" or Vice Versa?
  • Postwar Growth
  • The Settlement Pattern
  • Employment
  • Marriage and the Family
  • Social Life: Homemade Fun,Food, and Festivals
  • the Family, the Roma Club, and the Church
  • Ethnic Identity: Italian Canadians or Canadianized Italians?
  • Ethnic Identity and the Community: Individualism and Solidarity, Parochialism and Interaction
  • Community Self-Identity: What Is an Italian Canadian?
  • The Universal Values of Ethnicity: Nino Ricci's Lives of the Saints and the Leamington Italian Community
  • Appendix
  • Leamington Italians 1920s-1980, and Date of Entry in Canada
  • Italians in the Leamington Area, (Southeast Essex County): 1920s-1945
  • Reproductions of Passports/Military Discharge Papers
  • Farm Purchases by Leamington Italian Immigrants 1920s-1960s
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index