Memories of belonging : descendants of Italian migrants to the United Sates, 1884-present /

Memories of belonging : descendants of Italian migrants to the United Sates, 1884-present /

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Author / Creator:Wirth, Christa, author.
Imprint:Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2015]
Description:xii, 406 pages ; 25 cm.
Language:English
Series:Studies in global social history ; volume 17
Studies in global migration history ; volume 5
Studies in global migration history ; v. 5.
Studies in global social history ; v. 17.
Subject:
Italian Americans -- Massachusetts -- Worcester -- History.
Italian Americans -- Massachusetts -- Worcester -- History -- Sources.
Italian Americans -- Massachusetts -- Worcester -- History -- Interviews.
Italian Americans -- Ethnic identity.
Italian Americans -- History.
Emigration and immigration.
Ethnic relations.
Italian Americans.
Italian Americans -- Ethnic identity.
United States -- Emigration and immigration -- History.
Italy -- Emigration and immigration -- History.
Worcester (Mass.) -- Ethnic relations.
Italy.
Massachusetts -- Worcester.
United States.
History.
Interviews.
Sources.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10150076
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ISBN:9789004284562
9004284567
9789004284579 (e-book)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:"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, author 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"--

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