The Routledge History of Italian Americans (Paperback)

Introduction:A New History for a New Millennium William J. Connell Part I - Explorations and Foundations 1) Italians in the Early Atlantic World William J. Connell 2) From the Pilgrim Fathers to the Founding Fathers: Italy and AmericaEdoardo Tortarolo 3) When They Were Few: Italians in America, 1800-1850John Paul Russo 4) America’s Garibaldi: The United States and Italian UnificationDon H. Doyle 5) Dante Alighieri and the Divine Comedy in Nineteenth-Century AmericaDennis Looney Part II - The Great Migration and Creating Little Italies 6) Why Italians Left Italy: The Physics and Politics of Migration, 1870-1920Maddalena Tirabassi 7) The Silence of the Atlantians: Contact, Conflict, Consolidation (1880-1913)Peter Carravetta 8) The Little Italies of the Early 1900s: From the Reports of Amy Bernardy Maddalena Tirabassi 9) Interpreting Little Italies: Ethnicity as an Accident of GeographyMaria Susanna Garroni 10) Culture and Identity on the Table: Italian American Food as Social History Simone Cinotto 11) Italian Americans and Their Religious ExperienceRichard N. Juliani 12) Italian Americans and Race During the Era of Mass Immigration Peter G. Vellon 13) Discrimination, Prejudice and Italian American HistorySalvatore J. LaGumina 14) The Languages of Italian AmericansNancy C. Carnevale 15) Italian American Book Publishing and Book Selling James J. Periconi 16) From Margins to Vanguard to Mainstream: Italian Americans and the Labor MovementMarcella Bencivenni 17) The Sacco and Vanzetti Case and the Psychology of Political ViolenceMichael Topp 18) A Diary in America and a Death in Rome Francesco Durante Part III - Becoming American and Contesting America 19) The Bumpy Road Toward Political Incorporation, 1920-1984Stefano Luconi 20) Italian Emigration, Remittances, and the Rise of Made-in-ItalyMark I. Choate 21) Fascism and Anti-Fascism in Italian AmericaStanislao G. Pugliese 22) World War II Changed EverythingDominic Candeloro 23) Mothers and Daughters in Italian American NarrativesMary Jo Bona 24) The Italian American Family and Transnational CircuitsJoAnne Ruvoli 25) Groovin’: A Riff on Italian Americans in Popular Music and JazzJohn Gennari 26) Italian Americans and the CinemaGiuliana Muscio 27) Italian Americans and TelevisionAnthony Julian Tamburri 28) Italian Americans in SportLawrence Baldassaro 29) Organized Crime and Italian AmericansAntonio Nicaso Part IV - Postwar to Post-Ethnic? 30) Italian Americans and AssimilationRichard Alba 31) Italian Americans in the Suburbs: Transplanting Ethnicity to the Crabgrass FrontierDonald Tricarico 32) "What Ever Happened to Little Italy?"Jerome Krase 33) Italian American FemininitiesIlaria Serra34) Italian American MasculinitiesFred Gardaphe 35) Fuori per sempre: The Coming Out of Gay and Lesbian Italian AmericansGeorge De Stefano 36) Immigration from Italy since the 1990sTeresa Fiore 37) Contemporary Italian American IdentitiesRosemary Serra 38) The Orphanage: Encounters in Transnational SpaceRobert Viscusi Conclusion: The Future of Our Past Stanislao G. Pugliese