The Varieties of Ethnic Experience : : Kinship, Class, and Gender among California Italian-Americans / / Micaela Di Leonardo.
Taking a novel anthropological approach to the issue of white ethnicity in the United States, this book challenges the model of uniform ethnic family and community culture, and argues for a reconsideration of the meaning of class, kinship, and gender in America's past and present. Micaela di Le...
Saved in:
| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000 |
|---|---|
| VerfasserIn: | |
| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018] ©1984 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The Anthropology of Contemporary Issues
|
| Online Access: | |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (262 p.) |
| Tags: |
Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Diagrams and Tables
- Preface
- 1. "When a Person Speaks Sincere": The Setting and the Study
- 2. Italian Families, American Families: Immigration History and Settlement in California
- 3. "The Family is Soprattutto": Mobility Models, Kinship Realities, and Ethnic Ideology
- 4. "It's Kinda an Old Immigrant Thing": Economy, Family, and Collective Ethnic Identity
- 5. "Abbondanza Youself!": Abuse, Boundaries, and Ethnic Identity
- 6. "I Think God Helps Us": Women, Work, Ethnicity, and 178 Ideology
- 7. Kinship, Culture, and Economy in the American Context
- Appendix: A Comparative Test: Boston and San Francisco-Oakland Data
- References
- Index