City of Neighborhoods : Memory, Folklore, and Ethnic Place in Boston /

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East Boston has long been known as an Italian neighborhood and Southie as an Irish one, while nearby North Quincy has seen in recent decades an influx of Chinese Americans and immigrants. Such urban spaces in America can become intimately intertwined with ethnic identities (Little Italy, Greektown,...

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Autor principal: Buccitelli, Anthony Bak (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2016]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Neighborhoods.
Manners and customs.
Folklore.
Ethnic relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Folklore & Mythology.
Folklore > Massachusetts > Boston.
Neighborhoods > Massachusetts > Boston.
Massachusetts > Boston.
Boston (Mass.) > Social life and customs > 21st century.
Boston (Mass.) > Ethnic relations.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: City of Neighborhoods
  • Chapter 1. Spaces of Memory: Local History Writing and Discourses of Ethnic Place
  • Chapter 2. Ethnic Symbols, Intertextuality, and Indexed Memory
  • Chapter 3. Ethnicity and Personalization in Local Memory Traditions
  • Chapter 4. Festive Locales: Ethnic Celebrations and Local Meanings
  • Chapter 5. Virtually a Local: Folk Geography, Digital Technology, and Social Memory
  • Conclusion: Memory, Folklore, and Ethnic Place in Boston
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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