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100 1 _aWirth, Christa.
245 1 0 _aMemories of belonging :
_bdescendants of Italian migrants to the United Sates, 1884-present /
_cby Christa Wirth.
264 1 _aLeiden ;
_aBoston :
_bBrill,
_c[2015]
300 _a1 online resource (xii, 406 pages)
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aStudies in global social history ;
_vv. 17
490 1 _aStudies in global migration history ;
_vv. 5
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 357-403) and index.
505 0 0 _aPreliminary 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.
506 _aAvailable to subscribing member institutions only.
520 _aMemories 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 migration, assimilation, and later-generation self-identification. Her research reveals how memories of migration, everyday life, and ethnicity are passed down through the generations, altered, and contested while constituting family identities. The fact that not all descendants of Italian migrants moved into the U.S. middle class, combined with their continued use of hyphenated identities, points to a history of lived ethnicity and societal exclusion. Moreover, this book demonstrates the extent of forgetting that is required in order to construct an ethnic identity.
650 0 _aItalian Americans
_zMassachusetts
_zWorcester
_xHistory.
650 0 _aItalian Americans
_zMassachusetts
_zWorcester
_xHistory
_vSources.
650 0 _aItalian Americans
_zMassachusetts
_zWorcester
_xHistory
_vInterviews.
650 0 _aItalian Americans
_xEthnic identity.
650 0 _aItalian Americans
_xHistory.
650 7 _aEmigration and immigration.
_2fast
650 7 _aEthnic relations.
_2fast
650 7 _aItalian Americans.
_2fast
650 7 _aItalian Americans
_xEthnic identity.
_2fast
651 0 _aUnited States
_xEmigration and immigration
_xHistory.
651 0 _aItaly
_xEmigration and immigration
_xHistory.
651 0 _aWorcester (Mass.)
_xEthnic relations.
651 7 _aItaly.
_2fast
651 7 _aMassachusetts
_zWorcester.
_2fast
651 7 _aUnited States.
_2fast
655 7 _aHistory.
_2fast
655 7 _aInterviews.
_2fast
655 7 _aSources.
_2fast
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_tMemories of Belonging: Descendants of Italian Migrants to the United States, 1884-Present
_dLeiden, Boston : BRILL, 2015,
_z9789004284562
830 0 _aStudies in Global Social History
_v17/5.
830 0 _aSocial Sciences E-Books Online, Collection 2015, ISBN: 9789004287488.
856 4 _zDOI:
_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004284579
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