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

by Wirth, Christa

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Full title :Memories of belonging : descendants of Italian migrants to the United Sates, 1884-present / by Christa Wirth

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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Publication Date:2015

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Brill
Place of Publication:Leiden
Language:eng
Publication Date:2015

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Description:pages cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9789004284562, 9004284567
oclc:ocn907711346
LC Classification:E184.I8
Dewey Decimal:973 .0451

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Américains d'origine italienne -- Entre… Américains d'origine italienne -- Histo… Américains d'origine italienne -- Ident… Américains d'origine italienne -- Sourc… Emigration and immigration Ethnic relations History interviews Italian Americans Italian Americans -- Ethnic identity Italian Americans -- History Italian Americans -- Interviews. -- His… Italian Americans -- Sources. -- History Italy Italy -- Emigration and immigration Massachusetts -- Worcester Sources United States United States -- Emigration and immigra… Worcester (Mass.) -- Ethnic relations