Memories of belonging : : descendants of Italian migrants to the United States, 1884-present / / by Christa Wirth.
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, Christa Wirth documents a century of transatlantic...
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| Superior document: | Studies in Global Social History, Volume 17 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2015. ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies in global social history ;
Volume 17. Studies in global migration history ; Volume 5. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (420 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- 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 Dantes Divine Comedy
- Memories of the American Dream: Migration, Assimilation, and the Homeland
- Conclusion
- Epilogue: Italian Americans as the Poster Children of the Immigrant Paradigm?
- Appendix
- Bibliography
- Index.