The Routledge History of Italian Americans

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The Routledge History of Italian Americans is a new multi-authored history of one of the biggest ethnic groups in the United States. The collection brings together leading scholars and critics to create a narrative of the trials and triumphs of Italians in America. Concentrating on themes ranging from immigration to religion, labor rights to women's rights, the collection reflects the field of Italian American Studies in its current form and highlights unique elements of Italian American culture that have particularly influenced the American experience as a whole. Cover Half Title Series Title Copyright Dedication Contents List of Figures List of Color Plates List of Tables Academic Advisory Board Contributors Acknowledgments Abbreviations and a Note on Surnames Introduction: A New History for a New Millennium Part I Explorations and Foundations 1 Italians in the Early Atlantic World 2 From the Pilgrim Fathers to the Founding Fathers: Italy and America 3 When They Were Few: Italians in America, 1800–1850 4 America’s Garibaldi: The United States and Italian Unification 5 Dante Alighieri and the Divine Comedy in Nineteenth-Century America Photo Essay: Life In Italian America Part II The Great Migration and Creating Little Italies 6 Why Italians Left Italy: The Physics and Politics of Migration, 1870–1920 7 The Silence of the Atlantians: Contact, Conflict, Consolidation (1880–1913) 8 The Little Italies of the Early 1900s: From the Reports of Amy Bernardy 9 Interpreting Little Italies: Ethnicity as an Accident of Geography 10 Culture and Identity on the Table: Italian American Food as Social History 11 Italian Americans and Their Religious Experience 12 Italian Americans and Race during the Era of Mass Immigration 13 Discrimination, Prejudice and Italian American History 14 The Languages of Italian Americans 15 Italian American Book Publishing and Bookselling 16 From Margins to Vanguard to Mainstream: Italian Americans and the Labor Movement 17 The Sacco and Vanzetti Case and the Psychology of Political Violence 18 A Diary in America and a Death in Rome Part III Becoming American and Contesting America 19 The Bumpy Road Toward Political Incorporation, 1920–1984 20 Italian Emigration, Remittances and the Rise of Made-in-Italy 21 Fascism and Anti-Fascism in Italian America 22 World War II Changed Everything 23 Mothers and Daughters in Italian American Narratives 24 The Italian American Family and Transnational Circuits 25 Groovin’: A Riff on Italian Americans in Popular Music and Jazz 26 Italian Americans and Cinema 27 Italian Americans and Television 28 Italian Americans in Sport 29 Organized Crime and Italian Americans Color Plates Part IV Postwar to Post-Ethnic? 30 Italian Americans and Assimilation 31 Italian Americans in the Suburbs: Transplanting Ethnicity to the Crabgrass Frontier 32 “Whatever Happened to Little Italy?” 33 Italian American Femininities 34 Italian American Masculinities 35 Fuori per Sempre: Gay and Lesbian Italian Americans Come Out 36 Immigration from Italy since the 1990s 37 Contemporary Italian American Identities 38 The Orphanage: Encounters in Transnational Space Conclusion: The Future of Our Past Glossary Index