Faces of community : immigrant Massachusetts, 1860-2000 /
Imprint: | Boston : Massachusetts Historical Society : Distributed by Northeastern University Press, 2003. |
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Description: | xiii, 269 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
Language: | English |
Series: | Massachusetts Historical Society studies in American history and culture ; 7 Massachusetts Historical Society studies in American history and culture ; no. 7. |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4850408 |
Summary: | For hundreds of thousands of immigrants, coming to Massachusetts has meant exchanging one community for another in multiple ways that are often overlooked. Whether home was originally an Irish tenant farm or the slave quarters of a Southern plantation or an Eastern European ghetto, whether its mention evoked warm memories or nightmares, immigration has required adopting a new identity consonant with new circumstances. Men who considered themselves Milanese moved to Boston's North End and became Italian Americans; women who identified themselves with County Cork turned into Irish Americans when Worcester became their hometown. The identities that immigrants adopted demarcated the outlines of their new communities.
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Physical Description: | xiii, 269 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 0934909806 0934909822 |